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AM Frequency of the Week: 790

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crainbebo

What do all of you get on 790 kHz?

In Bothell, WA it was KGMI Bellingham in the daytime, but Bellevue has zip, maybe KGMI on a good day.


At night I've logged the following on 790 kHz...
CFCW Camrose, AB (557 miles, C&W)
KGHL Billings, MT (661 miles, classic country)
KGMI Bellingham, WA (80 miles, News/Talk)
KJRB Spokane, WA (222 miles, News/Talk, only heard once)
KSPD Boise, ID (400 miles, Religious, heard once on day power)
KWIL Albany, OR (209 miles, Religious)
KWSW Eureka, CA (480 miles, News/Talk, before switching to 980)

-crainbebo
 
Daytime here in Rochester NY is a mix of WTNY Watertown and sometimes WLSV Wellsville. Nights used to be owned by CIGM Sudbury, but now they're a mess of Watertown, Providence, Norfolk and a few others.
 
Day & night, WAXY; but you can sometimes there the morse code "RR" for Cuba's Radio Reloj at night.

cd
 
Far northwest suburban Chicago....

Day: Splatter from WBBM. Not far east of me, closer to Lake Michigan, WSGW is widely reported, but I've never heard it at my QTH (except at sunset).

Night: Used to be CKSO, but I believe they've now left the AM band. Now it's slop, but I've heard the R. Reloj tones in the mess.
 
Dayton area...either whatever WAKY is this week from Louisville, or east of town WHTH Heath/Newark days.

Night: Reloj with others, Used to get WNIS (when it was WTAR) fairly often.

Gatlinburg area gets WETB Johnson City days; never really checked 790 at night there
 
Northern VA,

Very weak WNIS Norfolk on days with some splatter from DC area's WAVA 780.
Sunrise and sunset, WAEB Allentown, PA and WBLO Thomasville, NC (when on day time power)
At night, it's a mess with WNIS and the RR signal.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs I've heard WSGW once or twice during the day when WBBM was down.
at night now it's impossible to hear anything because of WBBM's IBLOCK, but many years ago I used to hear Norfolk, then WTAR and WMC Memphis.
 
This one is of little interest in Houston for DX'ing, because of local KBME. But when I lived in Plano, TX, it was very interesting. Depending on what part of the DFW area you are in, you can either get KFYO, Lubbock, or KBME, Houston. Although both are very weak in the DFW area. There is a closer station in Texarkana, but I never was able to hear it.
 
Nighttime from Tampa, it's WAXY from South Miami and Radio Reloj battling it out.

Daytime, it's a very weak WAXY, WLBE Leesburg, and a trace of Radio Reloj.

But 20 miles away right at the Gulf in the daytime, it's a whole different story all together!

The frequency is jammed with stations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWZwxHfkzo
 
In Bellingham, WA

KGMI, 24/7. FULL BLAST (I'm in the shadow of it's towers.......)
 
SW Ohio

Still trying for the mighty WHTH in Heath OH, but not that hard.

Day
WKRD Louisville

Night
WQSV Ashland City TN - One evening was up shamefully late.
WNIS Norfolk VA
WKRD Louisville KY

Sunrise/Sunset
WQXI Atlanta
KFGO Fargo ND
WAYY Eau Claire WI
 
Schuylkill County NE Pennesylvania ; casual DX fttb :

Daytime : WAEB is a ton of bricks here on any radio.
Quite a few times in the 60's when they were
Top 40, they were quite listenable in Queens,
the eastern borough of NYC, during the day.
Senor Moment here remembers them as being one of the
few stations with higher nighttime power than daytime power
for a while. Can anyone confirm this?

Nighttime here it's CIGM from Ontario. Looking at that
pattern of theirs I don't know how it's possible
to hear them anywhere in the U.S. But there
they are, more often than not.

Incidentally, that huge implosion representing WAEB's nighttime null to the west is genuine.
 
In the winter, you can hear WSGW in SE Michigan if you null out CKLW. In the summer it's difficult.

I've heard WSGW west of Racine, out near the WTMJ and WISN towers. But that was before WBBM IBOC. I guess you could still null it out. There are numerous stories about hearing WSGW along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, particularly east of tall buildings reinforcing WSGW and cancelling WBBM. I would assume IBOC would make this a lot more difficult.
 
Speaking of the shore, that reminds me of the time back in early 1975 when I was with my parents who were driving on the Garden State Parkway near ocean city right around sunset.

Since our vacation to Miami two years earlier, I had so much wanted to hear a Miami area station up in Jersey.

So I still remember leaning up from the back seat of the car and asking if I could tune the radio to possibly hear what was then 79 'WFUN' from Miami.

That happened to be my one lucky moment because I still remember hearing the song 'Don't call us, we'll call you' by Sugarloaf playing and then they gave the WFUN ID!

The station soon faded and I was never able to hear it again as much as I tried every night on my portable radio back home near Philadelphia.

All I could hear was WAEB which played top 40 at the time and I kept hoping that maybe it was WFUN sneaking in.
 
NE NC 790 WNIS is dominant 24/7. That is the only AM station I get full time here in the rural swamplands. Sometimes hear Cuban time ticks and Morse ID below WNIS at night. Have never ID any other 790 from this location. WNIS is Norfolk, VA. Was WTAR for many years.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Daytime : WAEB is a ton of bricks here on any radio.
Quite a few times in the 60's when they were
Top 40, they were quite listenable in Queens,
the eastern borough of NYC, during the day.
Senor Moment here remembers them as being one of the
few stations with higher nighttime power than daytime power
for a while. Can anyone confirm this?
Click to expand...

Yes, it's true that WAEB had higher power at night from the beginning, in 1949. From what I remember (and by looking through some old Broadcasting Yearbooks at David's site), it appears that WAEB ran 500 watts daytime and 1,000 night until around 1965, when they switched to 1,000 full-time.
 
Here in Thornville, Ohio, it's WHTH 24/7. The tower is about 12 miles north (almost due north but just a little off to the west) of me. At night, WHTH is dominant but there's crosstalk, none of which can be understood. Its main lobe goes almost due southeast, and I'm off to the west of that a bit.
Its null doesn't seem that deep, but I've heard Radio Reloj's ticks underneath WHTH in Granville, Ohio, about three miles west of the tower and behind the pattern.
 
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