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AM Frequency of the Week - 760 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 760 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is WJR day and night with a solid signal, stronger than local WTAM 1100. I've tried to null it at night to listen for anything else but haven't been able to from here.
 
WJR day and night.

I heard KCCV Overland Park, KS one night before local sunset there. It's 6000 watts day, 200 watts night, Class D. Day pattern favors Northern Michigan at twilight.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: WJR used to be difficult, but doable. Much tougher nowadays with WBBM's iboc going.

Night: WJR with a good enough signal to smash WBBM's noisemaker.
 
Northern VA...
Days, nothing, though I did hear WJR during the daytime once when there was skywave up in the air.

Nights, it's WJR. I once logged in WEFL Tequesta, FL with ESPN sports at night.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs--used to get weak WJR days, but with WNDZ pointed right at me on 750 I can now only get WJR at night--good signal.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
What do you all get on 760 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is WJR day and night with a solid signal, stronger than local WTAM 1100. I've tried to null it at night to listen for anything else but haven't been able to from here.
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From Houston, daytime weak KTKR San Antonio. Night, mix of KTKR and Spanish language. I have not been able to receive WJR in spite of numerous attempts. I assume they are broadcasting in HD leading to coverage loss, because many years ago they put a good nighttime signal into Texas - I used to get them as far west as Lubbock and Midland.
 
MONROE WA

Nothing on 760 in the day, and a weak mix at night. Mainly KFMB San Diego is dominate, but it's sometimes CFLD Burns Lake, BC that is dominate.

I've also heard KKZN Thornton, CO, and WJR Detroit (1925 miles), my farthest on this frequency.

-crainbebo
 
From West Michigan, WJR of course, plus the following have been heard when phase-nulling WJR during either sunrise or sunset skip. These are sorted closest to most distant and logged within the last few years:

KCCV Overland Park, KS
KMTL Sherwood, AR
KKZN Thornton, CO
XEES Chihuahua (the most common overnight when I null WJR)
XEABC San Sebastián Chimalpa
KFMB San Diego, CA (heard just once)
XEZZ Guadalajara

@crainbebo: nice going on WJR!!
 
Unlike Bruce, I get a pretty good daytime signal from KTKR-San Antonio in north Houston. Also, the Spanish station you picked up might just be WLCC-Brandon, FL. It runs 10kW, and that gets sent right across the Gulf in our direction. I've logged it, ID'ed it, and caught it twice sent the initial log. However, the times I've caught WLCC was during the day, never at night. We not only send a few of our stations across the Gulf towards gar fla, he sends a few our way as well! I have had several catches from Florida over the years, both AM & FM.
 
kilokat7 said:
From West Michigan, WJR of course, plus the following have been heard when phase-nulling WJR during either sunrise or sunset skip. These are sorted closest to most distant and logged within the last few years:

KCCV Overland Park, KS
KMTL Sherwood, AR
KKZN Thornton, CO
XEES Chihuahua (the most common overnight when I null WJR)
XEABC San Sebastián Chimalpa
KFMB San Diego, CA (heard just once)
XEZZ Guadalajara

@crainbebo: nice going on WJR!!
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It pops up a few times each winter. Usually on a REALLY good Midwest night (when WBBM is about ready to wipe out KKOH...)

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
kilokat7 said:
From West Michigan, WJR of course, plus the following have been heard when phase-nulling WJR during either sunrise or sunset skip. These are sorted closest to most distant and logged within the last few years:

KCCV Overland Park, KS
KMTL Sherwood, AR
KKZN Thornton, CO
XEES Chihuahua (the most common overnight when I null WJR)
XEABC San Sebastián Chimalpa
KFMB San Diego, CA (heard just once)
XEZZ Guadalajara

@crainbebo: nice going on WJR!!
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It pops up a few times each winter. Usually on a REALLY good Midwest night (when WBBM is about ready to wipe out KKOH...)

-crainbebo
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WJR really gets out. They were one of the strongest North American stations that I heard on the Northern Ireland global tuners receiver last winter.
 
purpledevil said:
Unlike Bruce, I get a pretty good daytime signal from KTKR-San Antonio in north Houston. Also, the Spanish station you picked up might just be WLCC-Brandon, FL. It runs 10kW, and that gets sent right across the Gulf in our direction. I've logged it, ID'ed it, and caught it twice sent the initial log. However, the times I've caught WLCC was during the day, never at night. We not only send a few of our stations across the Gulf towards gar fla, he sends a few our way as well! I have had several catches from Florida over the years, both AM & FM.
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KTKR is probably listenable - but it is the weakest of the San Antonio super stations - SA dominates 550, 630, 680, 720, 760 and, of course 1200 during the day. They would have a decent signal on 860 but KEYH messes that up. I would say 680 has the best signal over Houston, but 550 and 1200 are close seconds.

As for Spanish language - I only know enough to get barely by, I'll check again for Spanish under 760 and see if I am gettign WLCC. I've suspected 540 is coming across the Gulf, but I have to null a closer Spanish language to hear what is underneath. 640 is a real mystery, half the time I get something very faint in Spanish, half the time its something in English.
 
Here's a video of 760 on my PL-398mp just a brisk 3-minute walk up the street from my house. :) This video includes a TOH ID - interrupted by pattern change, but the call and COL are in the recording.

And, other video recorded on a highway onramp a short drive away. ;)

In spite of the somewhat-more-than-medium-strength signal ;), it IS possible to get a somewhat deep null with extremely careful positioning. (The extremely steady hands of a watchmaker / brain surgeon are pretty much required to get that null!)

Also, this video proves other stations CAN be heard on the frequency. The station in the video seems to be a Spanish-type music station. Any chance of getting South America on that frequency from here? Or would I be better off trying for, say, WJR at the highway onramp? :) I have heard KKZN once or twice in the background of the local station while in my back yard in the late afternoon, too.
 
From St. Louis:

Nothing during the day, too much interference from local WEW/770.

During the evenings, it's WJR 99.9% of the time. I have picked up KCCV and KMTL a few times at sunset, and I was able to identify HJAJ in Colombia once (and only once).
 
WJR would have a good signal in the Chicago area most nights, and I would like to be able to listen to get the Michigan news and weather, but WBBM's IBOC trashes them royally-- two channels away! However, since they turned it off temporarily, WJR was solid last night. I wish it was that way all the time.
 
audioguy said:
WJR would have a good signal in the Chicago area most nights, and I would like to be able to listen to get the Michigan news and weather, but WBBM's IBOC trashes them royally-- two channels away! However, since they turned it off temporarily, WJR was solid last night. I wish it was that way all the time.
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If WBBM cares at all about penetrating buildings in Chicago, they will leave it off. They were back with a vengeance over Houston the other night. Amazing what a difference it makes when a station shuts off the IBOC power vampire!
 
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