AM Frequency of the Week - 810 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What do you get on 810 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH, during the day it is just slop from CKLW 800/Windsor, ON. Near sunset and into the night I get WGY/Schenectady, NY with a good signal with less CKLW slop or none depending on how strong WGY is coming in.

 

[borderblaster]

If anything a very weak WSYW, Indianapolis with Spanish, days. WOSU's iBoc and spatter killed that. At night, WGY. Back in the 80s, I logged the Bahamas on 810 during aurora. Driving down I-95 on the east coast of Florida I was listening to the Bahamas in broad daylight.

 

[radioman148]

Near north Chicago suburbs, daytime splatter from WCPT. At night usually WGY. At critical hours sometimes Kansas City.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: mostly splatter from local 800 WTMR; sometimes, though,
a very weak WYRE from Annapolis MD.
Night: always WGY.

 

[cyberdad]

Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: Very weak WDMP (Dodgeville, WI) along with moderate splatter from WCPT (820)
Night: WGY Fair...sometimes (but not often), WHB underneath

 

[N4GBK]

From NE NC car radio. Days WYRE Annapolis, MD very weak on 810. Critical hours and nights is all WGY.

 

[cd637299]

From south Florida in the day, ZNS-3 Freeport, Bahamas. They may be on lower power ever since Hurricane Irene last year, but still audible.

Night, it's still them, but not very strong. I have not heard WGY in ages, nor have I heard WEUS near Orlando; but then again I have not tried hard.

cd

 

[danikayser84]

Schenectady, NY - WGY all day, all night Shame they're not what they once were...

 

[crainbebo]

Bothell/Bellevue, WA: Usually nothing days [sometimes KTBI Ephrata, WA in winter], KTBI sunset and KGO San Francisco, CA night. I have also heard KBHB Sturgis, SD [only SD caught] a few times when they power up in the morning [before Pacific sunrise].

-crainbebo

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA, I get extremely weak, unlistenable WYRE, at nights, it's WGY, when I aim the loop antenna toward SE, I can get an unknown foreign language station, either ZNS or a Cuban station.

I have heard WYRE during days at the Outer Banks though weak.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Houston daytime -

XERI Reynosa, with a trace of KYTY from San Antonio.

 

[Darth_vader]

Day: static
Night: KGO

Several years ago, I copied KGO all the way up I-5 from Vancouver into downtown Seattle. Didn't drop out once! This was on the factory-stock '97 GM Delco radio that preceded the Kenwood/F1HD, in the Bronco.

Of course, nothing says "let's go on a trip to the Emerald City" better than listening to a station from the Silicon Valley the whole way up! ;o)

 

[MarioMania]

From Vallejo, CA

KGO Day and Night

 

[KA7PAT]

Daytime: spatter from 800 KPDQ Portland
Nighttime: KGO San Francisco usually through the splatter of KPDQ.

 

[vibe]

From Central Mass -near Worcester it's a very weak WGY day and so so at night. Nothing else.

 

[Tincap]

Northern VA, I get extremely weak, unlistenable WYRE, at nights, it's WGY, when I aim the loop antenna toward SE, I can get an unknown foreign language station, either ZNS or a Cuban station.

I have heard WYRE during days at the Outer Banks though weak.

ZNS would be in English...although with an accent (!), other choices of 'foreign language' stations could include the 250 kW Colombian HJCY CARACOL or the franco-country station from Caraquet New Brunswick CJVA. Here, in eastern Ontario, I usually have WGY, with CKVA underneath, though CARACOL and even (listed as 1 kW) Radio Progresso have come for visits...



~BG

 

[KR4BD]

810 KHz From Lexington, KY

Nighttime:

WGY Schenectady, NY


Sunrise/Sunset:

WAGC Murfreesboro, TN
WHB Kansas City, MO
WSJC Magee, MS (I think this is no longer on-the-air...They had a killer 50KW Daytime signal here at sunrise)


Daytime:

WEKG Jackson, KY (This station is still listed as "active" but have not heard it in several years...Fairly close to me, too.
A Mix of VERY WEAK Spanish Stations (Probably WSYW Indianapolis and WAGC Murfreesboro, TN)

 

[cd637299]

Is Caracol HJCY in Colombia still running 250 kW? I haven't heard them since the 1970s IIRC---if I heard them at all.

cd

 

[Tincap]

Is Caracol HJCY in Colombia still running 250 kW? I haven't heard them since the 1970s IIRC---if I heard them at all.

cd

Other than the info given on amscan.org, I don't have any inside scoop on them, cd. Though you'd think if they were actually running 250 kW, it would be a much more common snag, even up here.

~BG

 

[stormy01]

40 miles NW of Chicago (Crystal Lake, IL)

Daytime: WMJH Rockford (Grand Rapids), MI
Critical Hours: WHB Kansas City, MO
WSYW Indianapolis, IN
Sunrise: WDDD Johnston City, IL
Sunset: WDMP Dodgeville, WI
WMGC Murfreesboro (Nashville), TN
Nighttime: WGY Schenectady, NY
XEFW Tamaulipas, Tams. MX