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AM Frequency of the week: 770

cyberdad

cyberdad

(tried to post this earlier, but for some reason it didn't appear.....)

Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

Days: Splatter from WBBM and it's iboc.

Nights: With WBBM nulled, WABC is usually strong enough to make it past what's left of the iboc noisemaker.

Sunrise/Sunset: Once in a while WVNN from North Alabama makes it through on day power (7kw)

Other Locations: During my college days in Iowa during the late '60s. WABC was reliable enough to be a nightly "go-to" for some of the kids from the East Coast.
 
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - Usually KKOB but sometimes the religious station KCBC from Manteca, California or even KTTH Seattle.

Heard WABC only once but just barely, as it was sharing the frequency with KKOB.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime: Nothing. Sunrise/sunset: WVNN sometimes. Night: WABC (ding!)

Retro/Other: Ohio: Daytime: WAIS, Buchtel, Ohio, and WABC at night (during the top 40 days, well before there was a WAIS or WVNN, sometimes I could catch Dan Ingram around 4:30pm.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs:

Daytime: WBBM splatter. Nighttime: WBBM splatter. I'm too close to WBBM to get a shot at anything when their IBOC is on.

Retro: WABC (Chime!) was a go to for me at night in the 60s & 70s. In the late fall when it got dark enough sometimes I could catch the last hour or so of Dan Ingram's show. Also at times back then presunrise I could hear WEW or KUOM.

Other: Right now I'm in the California desert and KKOB is strong most nights. Once in awhile I hear a station faintly in back of it which I'm guessing is KCBC.
Back in the 60s clear channel days I caught WABC a few times on the west coast when KOB signed off on Monday morning.
 
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Orange County, TX-Days nothing, Nights-at times KAAM Garland, TX with an unknown Spanish language mixing in.
Retro: days would be a weak KJCB-Lafayette, LA.
 
KKOB ABQ here in Laramie, WY day and night.. if i hear it during the day, its real weak and noisy.. usually its gone by a bit after sunrise. Sometimes I hear CHQR Calgary but if i do, its mixing with KKOB and if it leads, its never for long
 
(To paraphrase RadioMan: ♫ Seventy-seven ... ♫

Night and day ; day and night.

770 is one of 6 traditional AM frequencues from thich I only have one station logged here in NEPA.

Grrr. I'm guessing sunset is the best time to look for a new one.
 
From Reynoldsburg, Ohio, it's a moderately weak WAIS licensed to Buchtel, Ohio, roughly 55 miles to my southeast in Athens County, daytime and all WABC at night.
Although it is licensed to Buchtel, for all intents and purposes WAIS is in Nelsonville. Its studio and transmitter are located right on the edge of town off old U.S. 33. The facilities still can be seen from the 33 bypass.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WBBM IBOC hash
Nightime: WABC was common prior to WBBM introducing IBOC

DX/RETRO: once I logged WEW during daytime. This was back in 1984. Other stations heard include KJBC (Lafayete, LA), KATL (Miles City, MT), WJMW (Athens, AL), WJMM (Nicholasville, KY) and the foreigners YSKL San Salvador, El Salvador, HJKH Bogota, Colombia.
 
WJMW (Athens, AL) was the predecessor to WVNN. Call letters were changed in 1988. For those unfamiliar, the market served (at least before WVNN powers down at night) is Huntsville-Florence. Roughly 100 miles south of Nashville.
 
Yakima WA

Days - KTTH Seattle (Conservative Talk)
Nights - KKOB Albuquerque NM (News/Talk), mixes with CHQR Calgary (News/Talk), and there's a little bit of KTTH poking in but they are directional away from me. During aurora, KCBC Manteca CA (Christian Talk) is often heard, and even more at sunset with 50KW. KATL Miles City MT (Hot AC) is also heard from time to time.

Wanted:
WABC New York (Duh! But it will likely never happen.)
KUOM Minneapolis MN (5KW on a spectacular sunrise session at 4 or 5AM?)
 
crainbebo said:
Wanted:
WABC New York (Duh! But it will likely never happen.)
KUOM Minneapolis MN (5KW on a spectacular sunrise session at 4 or 5AM?)
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Maybe it's just me, but in my most recent trips to the Twin Cities, I get the impression that KUOM's facilities maybe aren't being kept up very well. Perhaps it's just me. But to my ears, the audio sounds rather "muddy," and for 5kw on 770 the signal doesn't seem to get out very well. Even considering the variable nature of ground conductivity in the area.
 
From the far southern suburbs of Kansas City:

Day: Nothing but splatter from local KCCV on 760 kHz.

Critical Hours: KKOB - Albuquerque when they are on 50kW non-directional days, WEW - St. Louis and on occasion, WABC - New York.

Night: Generally, nothing but fading except for WABC, on occasion.

Bob
 
From west Houston, KAAM in Garland (Dallas), TX with religious talk and SMU sports dominates day and night. At sunset, they mix with SS talk (XEACH Monterrey I believe) and sometimes KKOB. At night there is a mix of stations below KAAM but nothing strong enough to ID. I haven't heard WABC from here, but maybe should try at sunrise.

Retro, from Tulsa OK in the 70's, KAAM was not yet on 770, so the frequency was clear in the daytime. At nights, then-KOB dominated, but logged WEW at sunset. I could also hear WABC on Monday mornings (I think), when KOB was off the air. I wish Monday morning sign offs for maintenance were still a thing...
 
wildthangjim said:
I wish Monday morning sign offs for maintenance were still a thing...
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with equipment being more reliable and hot swappable, stuff like that isn't really needed
 
It is true that transmitters are more reliable and don't need nearly as much maintenance. But stations still have to go off the air occasionally to work on things like antennas and directional networks. Those aren't much fun to get your hands into when they are energized.
 
In NW S.A., daytime is just splatter from local 760 KTKR.

Around sunset, KAAM starts to come up, with XEACH "Radio Formula" in Monterrey underneath. Also, daytimer XEANT in Tancanhuitz de Santos, which plays indigenous Mexican music, starts to mix in.

At night the KTKR splatter is minimal. KKOB comes in with a pretty good signal to the NW, while KAAM has a fairly steady signal to the NE. XEACH is in and out underneath it.

During sunrise, XEANT can always be heard for a while after it signs on for the day. KAAM dominates when it goes to day power.
 
Days:::KCBC, Manteca / Oakdale

Nights::KKOB Albuquerque NM always under KCBC. Its annoying, but KKOB is certainly there. Its hard to null KCBC completely.
 
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