AM Frequency of the Week: 790

[fybush]

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.

You must have a better radio than I do, Steve...at least on my radio, CIGM decamped for FM back in 2009... ;D

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

In Greater Cincinnati, it would be WKRD from Louisville, Kentucky. It features sports with some of the Louisville Cardinals football & basketball games (when they're not on WHAS). Back in the 1960's, it was WAKY with Top 40 rock 'n roll on that frequency.

 

[n2wds]

Wellsville, NY

WLSV 24/7. 1000w days; 41w nights. I'm about 6 miles north of the stick.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

WSGW also has a substantial minor lobe, equivalent to about 2.5 kW, to the SE. Have any of you in the Cleveland, OH to Erie, PA area ever heard it in the daytime in particular? I imagine it would be difficult west of Cleveland since WHTH is about 180 degrees from WSGW.

 

[RyanHoward]

Here in Warminster PA, it's WAEB from Allentown, day and night. I also remember them as a
Top 40 station in the 70's and early 80's.

 

[kenrayc]

From Clovis/ Fresno, KFPT Clovis CA, ESPN 2, 5K day directional, 2.5 K at night directional, they are 1.25 Miles from my location, so a blow torch for me, I have heard KABC when they were off the air.

 

[Icangelp]

In Greater Cincinnati, it would be WKRD from Louisville, Kentucky. It features sports with some of the Louisville Cardinals football & basketball games (when they're not on WHAS). Back in the 1960's, it was WAKY with Top 40 rock 'n roll on that frequency.

WQSV Ashland City & WNIS Norfolk are frequent night time catches for me on the west side of Cincinnati, but always very weak with fading.

WQSV must have the strongest 35 watts in AM broadcasting. :

 

[charlestondxman]

790 here is a mix of stations. Daytime, it's either WSFN Brunswick, GA, Miami (close to the coast) or the 790 out of Bamberg, SC (what you get inland). WSFN (a sports station, duh), because of the water path, comes in better here. Sometimes you hear the other two under there.

Nighttime, it is a mess. I have gotten WNIS here.

 

[ddsparxx]

That reminds me, I recently heard a black gospel station on 790 last weekend at night, no opportunity to ID the station, though I am thinking it may be WVCD in Bamberg, SC.

 

[jd]

Don't know where you are, but another possibility is KOSY Texarkana AR, which has a gospel format.

 

[ddsparxx]

Don't know where you are, but another possibility is KOSY Texarkana AR, which has a gospel format.

Forgot to post where I am. I'm in northern VA.

 

[MarioMania]

From Vallejo, CA

Day - nothing

Night - Weak KABC

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Here in Vermilion, OH...I haven't had much luck with 790. During the day I get mostly slop from CKLW 800/Windsor but I do hear what sounds like a weak news/talk or just talk station underneath the slop. Haven't been able to ID who that is yet. At night I still get slop but the other night I heard Spanish on 790 amidst the slop. No idea who that would have been.

 

[schmave]

Here in Vermilion, OH...I haven't had much luck with 790. During the day I get mostly slop from CKLW 800/Windsor but I do hear what sounds like a weak news/talk or just talk station underneath the slop. Haven't been able to ID who that is yet. At night I still get slop but the other night I heard Spanish on 790 amidst the slop. No idea who that would have been.

It very well could be WHTH. If you hear Hannity between 3 and 6, it probably is. I've never tried to get them away from this areas to see how potent the signal is. I very rarely listen to them *in* this area.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Here in Vermilion, OH...I haven't had much luck with 790. During the day I get mostly slop from CKLW 800/Windsor but I do hear what sounds like a weak news/talk or just talk station underneath the slop. Haven't been able to ID who that is yet. At night I still get slop but the other night I heard Spanish on 790 amidst the slop. No idea who that would have been.

That close to the lake, it could also be WSGW, judging by the R-L Map. It looks like you could have a 0.05 to 0.1 mV/m signal, and the conductivities are close to believable over that path. You might have 8 where it says 15, but not 1 where it says 8. And Canada and some world conductivity maps say Lake Erie is 10.

 

[Darth_vader]

Day: static
Night: mess (you can sometimes pick out KWIL and CFCW, but I've also heard KABC at least once in Portland. That was before I ever got the F1HD.)

 

[chrish]

790 is WEAN (or whatever they are calling it these days) Providence day (if WNNW is nulled) and night in Salem, NH

 

[BigDave]

790 The Zone during the Day and Radio Rebelde at Night :

 

[tanner]

Orlando WLBE Leesburg day......garbage night

 

[Buckeyes2001]

I've ID WPIC/Sharon, PA during the day with a weak signal from Vermilion, OH and a jumble at night including RR from Cuba at times but WBBM's IBLOCK gets in the way more than anything at night.