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AM frequency of the week - 790 KHZ

Icangelp said:
WAXY will always be WFUN to me. In my late teens, drove down with my mom to visit an uncle who lived in Miami, and although I didn't know it at the time, but heard two of the best AM Top 40 stations in the U.S. in WFUN and WQAM.
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Interesting you say that as I feel the same.

When I was growing up in New Jersey and not long after I first discovered DXing, my parents took me on vacation for Easter vacation to Miami to visit my older brother who was going to the University of Miami. I was 11 at the time (1973) and I really got to like listening to WQAM and WFUN when I was there.

When we got back home, of course wished I could hear those stations at night but the local WFIL made it impossible to hear WQAM and on 790, all I could ever ID was WAEB from Allentown, Pa.

So two years later, I was down at the Jersey shore (around Ocean City) with my parents and we driving around at dusk in their old Crysler which had only an AM radio with the push buttons.

The radio was set on 77 WABC at the time and being at the shore reminded me of our trip to Miami still and I got the thought of maybe trying to hear WFUN. So from the back seat, I went between the two big bucket seats, tuned the radio a little and I will never forget what I heard.

It was WFUN! A weak but very listenable signal and I still remember the song they were playing before they gave their ID. It was Don't Call Us We'll Call You by Sugarloaf.

It was one of those critical hours catches that I never heard again even though that made me listen night after night back home near Philly.

Great DXing memories.
 
Here in Andover, NY:

It's WLSV from Wellsville, NY, 24/7. I'm about 15 miles NE of the stick. Although at night it's a little rough at 41 watts, but understand all that's broadcast.
 
In Thornville, Ohio it's local WHTH from Newark/Heath 24/7. Their night signal comes in this direction so it's listenable at all hours, but stations on 780 (WBBM of course) and 800 (CKLW if anything) can be heard at night.
I was behind their pattern the other night, however, and heard Radio Reloj's ticks under WHTH about four miles west of the towers.
 
schmave said:
In Thornville, Ohio it's local WHTH from Newark/Heath 24/7. Their night signal comes in this direction so it's listenable at all hours, but stations on 780 (WBBM of course) and 800 (CKLW if anything) can be heard at night.
I was behind their pattern the other night, however, and heard Radio Reloj's ticks under WHTH about four miles west of the towers.
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can you hear WBBM or any of the Chicago's during the day?
 
A mess usually. The stations I've heard on 790 are...

KGMI Bellingham, WA, News/Talk
KWSW Eureka, CA, News/Talk
CFCW Camrose, AB, Country
KWIL Albany, OR, Religious
KSPD Boise, ID, Religious
KJRB Spokane, WA, News/Talk


-crainbebo
 
In Bellingham, WA....KGMI Bellingham, WA 24/7

Farther south, like crainbebo says, it's a mess. But it's a regional channel, not a clear
 
radioman148 said:
schmave said:
In Thornville, Ohio it's local WHTH from Newark/Heath 24/7. Their night signal comes in this direction so it's listenable at all hours, but stations on 780 (WBBM of course) and 800 (CKLW if anything) can be heard at night.
I was behind their pattern the other night, however, and heard Radio Reloj's ticks under WHTH about four miles west of the towers.
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can you hear WBBM or any of the Chicago's during the day?
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WSCR and WGN are the only two listenable (and I use that term loosely) in central Ohio during the day. Any chance at WBBM is blotted out here during the day; the closest I've heard it to here is around Marysville, 30 miles northwest of Columbus.
Any trace of WLS is buried under WRFD slop until you get up around Bellefontaine. WMVP makes it to about I-75.
 
schmave said:
radioman148 said:
schmave said:
In Thornville, Ohio it's local WHTH from Newark/Heath 24/7. Their night signal comes in this direction so it's listenable at all hours, but stations on 780 (WBBM of course) and 800 (CKLW if anything) can be heard at night.
I was behind their pattern the other night, however, and heard Radio Reloj's ticks under WHTH about four miles west of the towers.
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can you hear WBBM or any of the Chicago's during the day?
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Thanks!

WSCR and WGN are the only two listenable (and I use that term loosely) in central Ohio during the day. Any chance at WBBM is blotted out here during the day; the closest I've heard it to here is around Marysville, 30 miles northwest of Columbus.
Any trace of WLS is buried under WRFD slop until you get up around Bellefontaine. WMVP makes it to about I-75.
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LibertyNT said:
I have gotten Radio Reloj on 790 here in the DFW area
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Heck, there's a 790 in Houston (KBME) and even in its main lobe at night (south-southeast over downtown Houston and pretty much straight down 45 toward Galveston), you can hear the Reloj ticks as close in as 30 miles out.
 
Heck, there's a 790 in Houston (KBME) and even in its main lobe at night (south-southeast over downtown Houston and pretty much straight down 45 toward Galveston), you can hear the Reloj ticks as close in as 30 miles out.
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Though I haven't yet heard any ID, I'm convinced one of the many stations I can hear during the day right at the Gulf 20 miles west of my Tampa location is KBME.

There are more stations on 790 daytime at the Gulf than back in Tampa, that's for sure.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WMq0oik9dk
 
I do think it's possible, but I will say they don't shoot too much signal to the east. During the times I had to drive east of Houston for work, KBME's signal (as well as that of Sports Radio 610 ... KILT) were noticeably worse as close as Mont Belvieu, about 30 miles east of downtown. Their Radio Locator maps are generous, I'll say that.
 
Nothing really between WBBM/780 Chicago and CKLW/800 Windsor, aside from very occasionally a weak signal from WPIC in Sharon PA (just over the border from Youngstown OH).
 
790 Reception From Lexington, KY

Daytime:

WKRD, Louisville, KY

Nighttime & DX:

WKRD Louisville, KY
WAXY S.Miami, FL
WQXI Atlanta, GA
WNIS Norfolk, VA
WMC Memphis, TN
 
I'm a bit surprised you get Miami in Lexington with Louisville and Memphis much closer. Also I don't believe WAXY sends much signal that way.
 
Radioman148:
Louisville's WKRD-790 is very weak here in Lexington at night and easy to "Null" out. They drop to 1KW and we are off the back of the main lobes of their night pattern. Still, they are "in the mix". I have heard the S. Miami-790 several times over the years under various callsigns including WNWS. FYI: The Miami stations often run full daytime power and daytime patterns when hurricanes are in that area. In the past, I have also heard WQAM-560, WIOD-610 and WINZ-940 when hurricanes were hitting the South Florida area.
 
KR4BD said:
Radioman148:
Louisville's WKRD-790 is very weak here in Lexington at night and easy to "Null" out. They drop to 1KW and we are off the back of the main lobes of their night pattern. Still, they are "in the mix". I have heard the S. Miami-790 several times over the years under various callsigns including WNWS. FYI: The Miami stations often run full daytime power and daytime patterns when hurricanes are in that area. In the past, I have also heard WQAM-560, WIOD-610 and WINZ-940 when hurricanes were hitting the South Florida area.
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Now I understand.
 
Also note that WAXY 790 operates under a long-running "special temporary authority" that allows them to use increased power due to Cuban interference (along with several other Florida stations). WAXY is licensed for 5,000 watts day and night but is allowed to run 25,000 watts full-time under the STA.
 
Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly but weren't they running 10 kw back in the 70s when they were WFUN?

I searched to find the answer but couldn't find any info.
 
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