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AM Frequency of the week: 760

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cyberdad

cyberdad

Far Northwest Suburban Chicagp....

Days: A very weak WJR (Detroit) is usually audible in noise free locations on a good car radio or high end communications receiver.

Nights: All WJR. Usually alone with a good signal Auroral events can diminish the signal.

Other Locations, I've heard a stronger WJR a few time via daytime skywave in Wisconsin,downstate Illinois and Iowa.

AAt the beach near Pensacola, WJR is audible more often than not. XEABC sometimes underneath if not occasionally on top.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days: As Cyberdad notes, you can catch WJR with a good car radio or something fancy in the house. In my case at home, relatively close to WNDZ 750 Portage, Ind., you have to play with lower sideband and other buttons and turn the radio and / or loop just right to get WJR days. Best results in winter. Outside the Chicago area, WJR can be an easy listen within 300 miles of Detroit.

Nights: WJR is gangbusters, though not immune to the occasional overnight or early morning (after dawn in Detroit) raid by XEABC Mexico City, which is said to be 10 kW nights but more likely is running 70 kW when I hear it.

Two other stations have been heard way back, CMCI Havana and HJAJ Barranquilla, Columbia, the latter 2,262 miles distant, which I thought pretty good for a Realistic receiver. I think Havana was during a WJR silent period and HJAJ was in the same auroral display that netted YNX 750 Managua.
 
Tyler, TX:

Daytime is typically nothing, but every so often Regional Mexican KMTL Sherwood/Little Rock, AR will sneak in with a barely perceptible signal. At night, "Radio Cañon" XEABC Mexico City and WJR Detroit are the two regulars here, with XEABC usually dominating.
 
East Tennessee: Local WETR during the day and sometimes at night when the timer goes wacky. I’ve heard them off during the day and on at night. Anytime WETR is on the air, co-owned WRJZ-620 is non-directional. Nights is WJR. I caught WJR off while on the Central Indiana SDR and heard Spanish. Might have been XEABC, might not have been. I’ve caught the Sherwood, AR station once in Tennessee. In my Western Ohio home (Celina area), WJR was certainly there but not overwhelming). By ear CKLW (in the Big 8 days) was stronger, they equalized about Lima.
 
Lean frequency here in Northeast PA ; more respectably so back in Queens NYC..
Days it's the usual 2023 QRM. Nights is a mercurial WJR, sometimes a ton of bricks and sometimes feeble, as tvnut says.
A quiet SSS on the porch with batteries in the GE SR 2 should allow for the occasional upstate NY, Leicester MA or WCPS Tarboro NC.
(I'm not like most DXers . I hate having just one station logged on a channel. Trenchant expeditions, thermoses of spiked coffee and many Q-Tips are required to take care of such unconscionabl omissions :- )

During the kid era back in Queens NYC near Jamaica Bay, the old logbook listed just 5 stations on 760. I somehow wound up with four, despite the huge WABC 770 right down the hall. WCPS NC was one (at SSS), and WJR, R.Reloj and something called La Voz de Barranquilla the fourth.
Radio-Locator now lists 28 stations on 760. For DX purposes, that frequency has been penciled in on my lenghthy list of compromised priorities.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs: days WJR on a good radio. At night WJR is stronger. I’ve heard them many times on several global receivers during winter.
 
Oakland, CA - Nothing.

Also checked the Point Reyes SDR - Nothing.

That said, KEJY Eureka, CA has a CP to move from 790 to 760, go from Class D to Class B status, decrease daytime power to 500 watts and increase nighttime power to 340 watts. So Point Reyes may be able to pick that up in the future. The CP was extended in 2022.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, all WJR all the time to some degree.
Decent signal daytime, 4 out of 10 or so. It takes some interference the closer you get to downtown Columbus and the other AM towers, but improves considerably away from there.
As gr8 referenced, it's not a powerhouse until you get to at least Lima and Findlay. For my money, WJR is the best AM signal in Toledo at all hours considering the dial position, strength and nulls of their local AMs.
Nighttime, we're in the cancellation zone. (As many times as I've driven between Columbus and Toledo, I don't know where the ring of cancellation begins.) Skywave wins out more often than not here, but there is considerable phasing.
I never heard WJR in my Houston days.
 
Melbourne FL....

WJR - Detroit MI - Newstalk 760 - News, talk - 2023
WEFL - Tequesta FL ---- ESPN Deportes - 2019
WLCC - Brandon-Tampa FL - 760AM - La Ley Spanish – Mexican - 2009
CMBC - Cuba - Radio Progreso-La Onda de la Alegria //640 - 2006
CMBD - Cuba - Radio Reloj - Spanish – news, time checks - 2003
HJAJ - Barranquilla, Colombia - RCN /Radio El Sol - 2035 ET Spanish – News - 2001
 
In west Houston it's KTKR San Antonio during the day (not a great signal - they are directional, mostly away from me, 24/7). At sunset, KTKR disappears when they power down and 760 is dominated by XEABC, with sometimes a little WJR underneath. There's also someone else in Spanish but haven't ID'd them. At night, same, with XEABC dominant. At sunrise, XEABC is it after WJR's sunrise and before KTKR powers up.

XEABC certainly stronger here than they used to be. They're probably running 70kw all the time now, which would explain a lot. The other thing is, Mexico City is ~350 miles closer to me than Detroit!
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Splatter from local 770-KAAM.
Nights: WJR and XEABC are both heard with strong signals; conditions determine which one is on top. I've also heard KDFD Thornton CO at sunset and occasionally at night (assuming day power) with talk.
Sunrise: KCCV Kansas City area with religion and KMTL Sherwood AR with Spanish can be heard if I go looking for them at the right times.
One night with particularly good conditions to the west, I heard KGB San Diego with a fair signal by nulling WJR/XEABC.
 
TXPH97 said:
Sunrise: KCCV Kansas City area with religion and KMTL Sherwood AR with Spanish can be heard if I go looking for them at the right times.
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KCCV is licensed to Overland Park, Kansas but the transmitting site is located in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Blue River valley. The three towers are easily visible from Interstate 435.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Nothing

Nights - Good signal from WJR especially when turning the radio NW.

Way back in the late 70's when I was in college at Penn State I traveled to Columbus OH to see a Penn State - Ohio State game on a bus trip and was astonished to hear WJR during the day in my motel room on a little transistor radio. According to schmave and Radio-Locator that is the norm but at the time it seemed Detroit was nowhere near Columbus and I shouldn't be hearing it.
 
anwar said:
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Nothing

Nights - Good signal from WJR especially when turning the radio NW.

Way back in the late 70's when I was in college at Penn State I traveled to Columbus OH to see a Penn State - Ohio State game on a bus trip and was astonished to hear WJR during the day in my motel room on a little transistor radio. According to schmave and Radio-Locator that is the norm but at the time it seemed Detroit was nowhere near Columbus and I shouldn't be hearing it.
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For you to catch WJR inside a hotel room on a transistor here, even then with much less interference, is pretty impressive. On top of that, coming from territory with considerably worse ground conductivity into central Ohio with solid conductivity, it probably seemed like an even nicer catch.
When I stayed overnight at Put-in-Bay in 2012, the only AM station I could catch on the clock radio in the hotel room was WJR, and even that massive signal with a short hop across Lake Erie was subject to quite a bit of static. Nothing from Toledo, nothing from Cleveland, not even CKLW, but the latter also throws a deep null over PIB that is noticeable even that close.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WJR fighting it out with WNDZ splash
Nighttime: WJR with good signal. XEABC Mexico City usually heard under WJR on regular basis

DX/Retro: Radio Reloj, Cuba used to be quite common under WJR, but they are no longer on the air. Other DX on this frequency includes KTML (Sherwood, AR), KCCV (Overland Park, KS), WETR (Knoxville, TN), and Radio Barranquilla, Colombia. My most recent new logs on 760 for me are WENO (Nashville, TN) and WCIS (Morgantown, NC), both heard in 2022.
 
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Loganville, GA

Days-Nothing
Nights-WJR, another great station from my childhood DX days. Or nights really, with the old Realistic, tuning into the world and elsewhere.
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WJR had one of the great all-night music shows in NightFlight 760, which it started after losing Music ‘Til Dawn. Jay Roberts, “Your captain and host,” had one of those great voices made for overnight radio. Roberts moved to CKLW for a bit after WJR dropped him. Into the mid-1980s, at least in the Midwest, you could pick between WGN, KMOX and WJR. WCCO and Franklin Hobbs had “Hobbs’ House” through 1981.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Oakland, CA - Nothing.

Also checked the Point Reyes SDR - Nothing.

That said, KEJY Eureka, CA has a CP to move from 790 to 760, go from Class D to Class B status, decrease daytime power to 500 watts and increase nighttime power to 340 watts. So Point Reyes may be able to pick that up in the future. The CP was extended in 2022.
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I’m surprised you didn’t hear KGB from San Diego at either of these locations at night. I’ve heard KGB at night up in the Bay Area before. Not sure about Point Reyes, but that’s pretty close to San Francisco.

Here in Carlsbad, CA in North San Diego County, it’s KGB day and night. If anything, the nighttime signal is stronger than the daytime signal!
 
schmave said:
For you to catch WJR inside a hotel room on a transistor here, even then with much less interference, is pretty impressive. On top of that, coming from territory with considerably worse ground conductivity into central Ohio with solid conductivity, it probably seemed like an even nicer catch.
When I stayed overnight at Put-in-Bay in 2012, the only AM station I could catch on the clock radio in the hotel room was WJR, and even that massive signal with a short hop across Lake Erie was subject to quite a bit of static. Nothing from Toledo, nothing from Cleveland, not even CKLW, but the latter also throws a deep null over PIB that is noticeable even that close.
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CKLW has no null toward, nor obligation to protect PJB since CKLW was there first. The null in CKLW's pattern is toward the Mexican clear (XEROK). That's why we could listen to The Big 8 with an-almost local signal in the Celina-St Marys OH area but being in the null, we had only a weak signal which was buried by PJB, which is a pirate. I'm sure we'll talk more about that in a few weeks
 
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