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AM Frequency of the Week - 780 kHz

Schmave: I have a pretty hard time with WBBM because of local adjacent KBME at 790. I actually get WGN more regularly than either WLS or WBBM. WLS has seemingly lost its punch down here. Used to catch it frequently years ago, but much less frequently now.
 
purpledevil said:
Schmave: I have a pretty hard time with WBBM because of local adjacent KBME at 790. I actually get WGN more regularly than either WLS or WBBM. WLS has seemingly lost its punch down here. Used to catch it frequently years ago, but much less frequently now.
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My West Houston daytime - something from Mexico, pretty weak but listenable. Actually one of the less objectionable Spanish music formats I've heard, I sort of like it. KBME isn't a problem for it. Nighttime WBBM, but a lot of stuff in Spanish as well.
 
During the day in St.Petersburg, the 780 AM frequency is blank. (not even a Cuban station in the background!); at night it's usually a very weak, barely listenable WBBM most of the year; but in the winter, WBBM 780 can be very listenable.

I'm amazed that so far, the Cuban government hasn't put a high powered station or string of stations on 780; it's the only midwest or Eastern time zone Clear Channel below 1200 that doesn't suffer from Cuban interference here.
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drt,
st. petersburg,fl
 
purpledevil said:
Schmave: I have a pretty hard time with WBBM because of local adjacent KBME at 790. I actually get WGN more regularly than either WLS or WBBM. WLS has seemingly lost its punch down here. Used to catch it frequently years ago, but much less frequently now.
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What a shame about WLS - it used to be such a powerhouse. If there was the least bit of skywave, it was all over Houston. And almost dependable on the beach at Galveston, certainly it started coming in far before sunset, far sooner than any of the other Chicago stations. That was on a fairly good radio - a Radio Shack 12-650. But remarkable nevertheless. Of course that was when WLS mattered. The music died on WLS a long time ago, and so I don't care if they are on the air or not now.
 
KBME never made any issues for WBBM for me when I was in the League City/Friendswood area, which I actually left four years ago to this day. I could hear the adjacent-channel interference on 800, but at my distance from the tower, it wouldn't have been strong enough to block XEROK if that signal ever bothered to show up. It was never a factor on 780 at all.
I don't remember getting Chicago stations on skywave during the summer much if at all. Reception, at least for me, was far more common from October to March or early April - basically the cooler seasons.
 
From the Portland area:
Daytime: nothing
Nights: KKOH Reno any night. I have logged WBBM Chicago a few times.
 
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