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AM Frequency of the week: 760

cyberdad

cyberdad

Daytime: At my home location northwest of Chicago, its what's left of iboc splatter from WBBM (780).

Night: All WJR from Detroit. I always thought this signal was a bit of an underperformer given the distance and power involved. I'd rate their night signal locally as somewhere between good and fair.

Retro: Before CBS turned on their WBBM iboc noisemaker, it was a very weak....but clearly audible....WJR on a good radio. Whenever I "auditioned" a radio, WMT, WJR and WLW were my "test" stations.
 
East Tennessee: By day, WETR, Knoxville-Local (no PSA or PSSA but at times have heard it still on at night
Night: All WJR, all the time except when KMTL, Sherwood, AR decides to stay on late.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs all I get during the day is WNDZ splatter. At night it's WJR and just like Cyberdad their night signal has never been as strong as many other clears.

>>Retro: Before CBS turned on their WBBM iboc noisemaker, it was a very weak....but clearly audible....WJR on a good radio. Whenever I "auditioned" a radio, WMT, WJR and WLW were my "test" stations>>

I'd also add the 550 in St Louis to that list. When I first heard it the calls were KSD.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
All WJR, all the time from about 175 miles south of Detroit. It's maybe 3-4 on a 1-to-10 scale daytime, and the nighttime strength varies. I think we are on the outer edge of the cancellation zone. Sometimes it's quite strong, but most nights it's middling at best.
Visiting my fiancee's parents in Conneaut, Ohio, this past weekend, WJR is solid 24/7 with little to no cancellation.
As for Toledo where I attended college, for my money WJR is the best 24/7 AM signal across the entire area.
 
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Northern Essex County, NJ
Day: Heavy splatter from WABC
Night: WJR under heavy splatter from WABC, WABC is only 5 miles away from my location. I have better luck with WBBM for some reason
 
760 here in Charleston daytime is a weak Spanish sports station from south Florida, WEFL. It used to be regular ESPN, but they moved to FM in that area, so they made the AM ESPN Deportes. It only has 3kw daytime, yet blasts up the coast. At night, WJR comes in very well usually.

I've heard WJR daytime as far as Parkersburg, WV, and it came in OK even in Athens, OH.
 
Other Location: This week we're at our usual beach getaway spot on the gulf at the Florida-Alabama state line near Pensacola. 760 daytime is a very weak Spanish signal that I haven't been able to identify. I don't think it's Cuba, so my guess is WLCC from the Tampa Bay area. 10kw day power, with a pattern that doesn't favor my direction, but appears to be still enough to make the hop via saltwater path.
 
Houston daytime - fairly weak KTKR San Antonio. Night - usual scramble of signals. I'd like to put WJR on the list, but no positive ID.
 
Bay Area, CA: All KFMB, nights only. But maybe this will help something else sneak through -

There's news today (Tom Taylor NOW) that KFMB-760 wants to drop nighttime power from 50kw to 10kw. They can cover their listeners effectively with just 10k they say...
 
NoMoreLurking said:
Bay Area, CA: All KFMB, nights only. But maybe this will help something else sneak through -

There's news today (Tom Taylor NOW) that KFMB-760 wants to drop nighttime power from 50kw to 10kw. They can cover their listeners effectively with just 10k they say...
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They'll more or less disappear here in the NW if they do that. Will only be audible during really good propagation...
 
Ditto here, Ryan.

Nothing days
WJR nights.

I only have one logging on 760 here, in my second DX 'career'.
I'm pssed.

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Back in the old days, when I was young, 760 was a thorny frequency to DX from near JFK Airport.
Days -- zip.
One SSS, WCPS came in, from the delightfully-named community of Tarboro NC.
Nights: WJR, R. Reloj, and (a few times) La Voz de Baranquilla.
 
Well, In Cincinnati. I can reach WJR pretty weak in the Daytime but the nighttime it's all WJR. I've never heard another radio station that is with WJR before. Other dials for example. I can hear is 670 WSCR with Cuba, and 870 WWL with Cuba also.
So, It's WJR pretty weak in Daytime, but Nighttime, WJR as a pretty strong decent signal.
 
Days: nothing, except maybe a faint KCCV Kansas City under unusual conditions

Nights: All WJR. It's almost always listenable.

Retro: Same, WJR.
 
charlestondxman said:
760 here in Charleston daytime is a weak Spanish sports station from south Florida, WEFL. It used to be regular ESPN, but they moved to FM in that area, so they made the AM ESPN Deportes. It only has 3kw daytime, yet blasts up the coast. At night, WJR comes in very well usually.

I've heard WJR daytime as far as Parkersburg, WV, and it came in OK even in Athens, OH.
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I made the drive from Toledo to Huntington, West Virginia in December 1997 and WJR was listenable in Portsmouth, Ohio, darn near 300 miles from Detroit. This was at maybe 1 or 2 in the afternoon, so I suppose a little skywave could have been involved on that cold day, but it was a fairly constant though weak signal. I was impressed nonetheless.
There was a thread a few years back on here about what 50K signal covers Ohio the best, or at least covers the most land in Ohio, and WJR was just about a consensus pick with WLW second.
 
WJR Groundwave Coverage

Here is a plot of the 150 µV/m daytime groundwave contour of WJR, including the effects of earth conductivity for that region.

It includes parts of the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, and W. Virginia as well as part of the province of Ontario, Canada.

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We used to be able to include a piece of Northeastern Illinois in that WJR groundwave reception until WNDZ came on locally on 750 daytime.
 
Retro - I used to be able to hear WJR in Midland and Lubbock, TX at night.
 
radioman148 said:
We used to be able to include a piece of Northeastern Illinois in that WJR groundwave reception until WNDZ came on locally on 750 daytime.
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That certainly doesn't help in that corner of southwest lower Michigan, but another thing about that area is ground conductivity isn't all that great there, at least not in relation to much of the rest of the Midwest.
I remember having a much more difficult time picking up the Chicago 50K stations daytime in Toledo, where that shouldn't be a problem, than even 30 miles south. Those signals come to Toledo through that corner of Michigan, while farther south they travel across the much better soil of northern Indiana.
 
schmave said:
That certainly doesn't help in that corner of southwest lower Michigan, but another thing about that area is ground conductivity isn't all that great there, at least not in relation to much of the rest of the Midwest.
I remember having a much more difficult time picking up the Chicago 50K stations daytime in Toledo, where that shouldn't be a problem, than even 30 miles south. Those signals come to Toledo through that corner of Michigan, while farther south they travel across the much better soil of northern Indiana.
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In Jackson, MI, the Chicago 50kW stations were perfectly clear daytime. WLS, when I lived there, was still playing music in AM stereo and it was NICE and clear.
 
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