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AM Frequency of the week: 760

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwest suburbs of Chi-town....

Days: On a really good radio during a really good day, you can hear a really weak, but perfectly audible WJR. Used to be easier before WBBM turned on their iboc noisemaker.

Nights: 760 is all WJR. Signal is nit as impressive as some of the other skywaves, but still good, and very reliable.

Other Location: Here where I am for a few weeks on the Gulf of Mexico west of Pensacola, WJR is fairly reliable at night. On top but usually with Spanish underneath.


































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Yakima WA
Nothing days.

Nights - KFMB San Diego (News/Talk) mixing with KDSP Denver (Orange & Blue 760, Sports Talk, mostly Broncos). WJR Detroit (News/Talk) is sometimes heard in winter. Finally, CFLD Burns Lake BC (Hot AC) is rarely heard, but used to be a regular in western Washington at night.

Wanted
XEABC Mexico City (Spanish News/Talk) Heard what sounded like them during strong auroral conditions in September 2017, but KFMB was too much.
KTKR San Antonio TX (Sports) If they ever left the 50KW day power on at night, I'm sure I'd snag them.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs during the day it's all WNDZ splatter. At night WJR puts in a pretty good signal.

Retro/other: Before WNDZ came on the air WJR could be heard during the day on a decent radio.
Currently I'm vacationing in Southern California and it's all KFMB.
 
radioman148 said:
In the near north Chicago suburbs during the day it's all WNDZ splatter. At night WJR puts in a pretty good signal.
Retro/other: Before WNDZ came on the air WJR could be heard during the day on a decent radio.
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The fact that you're not hearing WJR daytime at your location, while I occasionally can, tells me that there's still a little something left to their signal once you go far enough west to start getting out from under WNDZ. Actually at my home location, what's left of WBBM iboc is a bigger issue on 760 than WNDZ.

Have a safe/fun time in So-Cal!
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio, all WJR all the time. Maybe a 4 on a scale of 1-to-10 daytime, and not all that great at night given that we are about 160 or so miles south of the tower and in the cancellation zone. Sometimes WJR comes in quite well, other times it comes in and out rapidly.
I personally think their groundwave has gotten worse over the years. I remember it being better 20-25 years ago. It gets much better north of Columbus but here in town, it struggles.
In Toledo, where I went to college, it's a blaster. Best AM signal over the entire area as far as I'm concerned, every bit as good as the best local (WSPD on 1370) and better than some of the smaller graveyard channels.
 
cyberdad said:
The fact that you're not hearing WJR daytime at your location, while I occasionally can, tells me that there's still a little something left to their signal once you go far enough west to start getting out from under WNDZ. Actually at my home location, what's left of WBBM iboc is a bigger issue on 760 than WNDZ.

Have a safe/fun time in So-Cal!
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Thanks Cyberdad!
 
East Tennessee: (Knoxville/Sevierville) Local WETR, Knoxville, sometimes on at night though it's a daytimer. In their absence, it's WJR pretty much in the clear. I've heard the apparently-now silent KMTL, Sherwood, AR running day facilities at night.

Retro/other: Still WJR most other places I've lived. CKLW was stronger in my home time in West Central Ohio. I caught my local WETR under WJR on the Edinburgh, IN SDR, and one night in WJR's absence, weak Spanish
 
760 is another frequency I've listened to going up and down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. WJR comes in pretty decently even in the daytime there. At night it comes in strongly everywhere I've tried. I have not heard any other stations on that frequency.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: these days mostly WBBM IBOC hash since they are just couple miles from my location.
Nightime: WJR

DX/RETRO: WJR used to be audible during daytime on a good day before the WBBM IBOC and WNDZ signed on. DX on this frequency includes KTML (Sherwood, AR), KCCV (Iverland Park, KS), WETR (Knoxville, TN) and the foreign catches Radio Reloj, Cuba, XEABX (Mexico City), HJAJ (Barranquilla, Colombia)
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: KCCV - Overland Park, a strong daytime signal at 6kW and just 11 miles from their transmitter site.

Critical Hours: KCCV and WJR underneath, especially during evening critical hours.

Night: KCCV reduces power to 200 watts and WJR often over takes them. Essentially, two listenable stations on the same frequency. A mess...

Bob
 
760 here in Charleston, SC is usually a weak WEFL Tequesta, now a ESPN Deportes station. It used to be English ESPN sports a few years back before that migrated to FM over there in West Palm Beach.

WJR has a very powerful daytime signal. It was almost as good as a local in the Cleveland suburbs, and I could hear it as far away as Athens, OH and the bridge between Ohio and West Virginia on I-77.
 
Days:: A very weak ( A ghost signal on "all my radios" ) from a local station 860 KTRB. I thought I was picking up KFMB out of San Diego. Not sure why our local 860 can be heard on 760.

Nights:: KFMB out of San Diego, but with lots of weird "fuzz" on this frequency. I don't want to call it static, its best described as fuzz or whoosh sound.
 
From west Houston, days are KTKR sports from San Antonio. Recently they have been much weaker than usual, wondering if they're having transmitter issues.

At sunset, KTKR usually dominates until they power down, then it's a mix of WJR and XEABC. I have heard religious talk, presumed KCCV, at sunset but haven't managed an ID yet.

XEABC is typically talk in Spanish, but I've also heard them playing 60's English language oldies with Spanish announcer.
 
charlestondxman said:
760 here in Charleston, SC is usually a weak WEFL Tequesta, now a ESPN Deportes station. It used to be English ESPN sports a few years back before that migrated to FM over there in West Palm Beach.

WJR has a very powerful daytime signal. It was almost as good as a local in the Cleveland suburbs, and I could hear it as far away as Athens, OH and the bridge between Ohio and West Virginia on I-77.
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I've heard it driving across I-275 on the north side of Cincinnati, but the farthest south I've ever heard WJR was Portsmouth, Ohio around 20 years ago while driving from Toledo to Huntington, West Virginia. It was quite weak but it was there.
We had a discussion a few years back about what 50K signal covers the most land of Ohio. WJR was almost a consensus pick despite not being located within the state.
 
Orange County, TX-Days nothing, nights 3 stations come through, WJR, a Spanish religious and an unknown Spanish. Spanish religious may be XEABC as noted by wild. 0558 MX nat'l anthem. Now, 0603 CST, someone is playing Sounds of Silence-Simon & Garfunkle followed by another oldie, name I can't recall. No sign of WJR or the Spanish religious. Kinda sounds like a gy freq.
 
WCJ said:
Orange County, TX-Days nothing, nights 3 stations come through, WJR, a Spanish religious and an unknown Spanish. Spanish religious may be XEABC as noted by wild. 0558 MX nat'l anthem. Now, 0603 CST, someone is playing Sounds of Silence-Simon & Garfunkle followed by another oldie, name I can't recall. No sign of WJR or the Spanish religious. Kinda sounds like a gy freq.
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XEABC plays oldies from 6-7am CST, so the Simon & Garfunkel is probably them. I don't know about Spanish religious here - XEABC does not run religious shows as far as I know. It's mostly news and talk shows plus aforementioned English oldies. They stream, so could check parallel.
 
Here in NW San Antonio it's local KTKR day and night.

But at night when it drops to 1 kW and changes pattern, I can get a partial NE/SW null in which XEABC has a weak to moderate but fairly steady signal. A few times I've heard XEZZ "Radio Gallito" in Guadalajara underneath.

Last night I heard a new station briefly mixing in with XEABC. It was XEDGO in Durango playing a string of Marco Antonio Solis songs. It was weak and only in for short periods. I never heard an ID, but the songs matched the TuneIn stream.

I've never heard any Spanish-language Christian talk on 760.

I logged a very weak WJR once in that partial null almost exactly two years ago.
 
There used to be an AM Hot AC station, CKQR 760 "QR-760" Castlegar, BC that blasted in the Seattle area in the late '80s and '90s. Sometimes easily muscling in next to 770 Seattle - I noticed they later dropped power or directionalized out from this way. 20,000 watts of everything from The Jets to Honeymoon Suite,
 
Wikipedia says CKQR moved to FM in 1998. I used to get the Burns Lake 760 quite often in Seattle, 'The Peak' (now 'The Moose') but they rarely come to this side of the Cascades. Northern BC is actually tougher than you think out here. I do get CKWL often on 570 however, but the 610 in Kamloops is VERY rare at 200 miles and the same with Prince Rupert 860, 100 Mile House on 840, etc.
 
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