AM Frequency of the Week - 810 kHz

[Darth_vader]

@W7--

Interesting you should bring up KPDQ, as that seems to be one of the more powerful local MWs that I absolutely CAN NOT receive more than a marginal copy of at the flat, even with the Selectatenna! Yet back at Mum's place up near Cascade Jr. High, it comes in just fine, unaided.

It's as if that part of Cascade Park is in a vacuum as far as 800 kilocycles is concerned...

(In fact, as I write this 800 is a mess. I counted no fewer than four stations competing with each other, including that "rhythmically fading" one that seems to be trying to punch through.)

 

[Icangelp]

SW Ohio
Various receivers

Days
WYSW Indianapolis- Faint

Night
WGY Schenectady - Most nights
WHB Kansas City - Infrequent

Sunset
WHB Kansas City
WPIN Dublin VA
WDDD Johnston City IL - Once
WMGC Murfreesboro TN

810 Columbia's signature was "Radio Sutatenza" back in its 250 KW days, and it used to be a fairliy reliable visitor to Cincinnati in the early '80s. I stopped DX'ing in 1982, so I have no idea what happened after that. I'm in a fairly good location for nulling WGY and favoring a South American signal.

 

[schmave]

Thornville, Ohio
Daytime: WOSU (820) slop
Nighttime: WGY, usually with a quite strong signal. Used to listen to Phil Hendrie on here years ago.

 

[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.

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

I forgot that the Bahamas's language is English...I'll give it another listen at night.

 

[crainbebo]

@W7--

Interesting you should bring up KPDQ, as that seems to be one of the more powerful local MWs that I absolutely CAN NOT receive more than a marginal copy of at the flat, even with the Selectatenna! Yet back at Mum's place up near Cascade Jr. High, it comes in just fine, unaided.

It's as if that part of Cascade Park is in a vacuum as far as 800 kilocycles is concerned...

(In fact, as I write this 800 is a mess. I counted no fewer than four stations competing with each other, including that "rhythmically fading" one that seems to be trying to punch through.)

If you can ID them, you're probably getting a mix of CKOR, KPDQ and CHAB. Those three are very common here at night.

-crainbebo

 

[borderblaster]

I don't remember Radio Sutatenza on 810, but I did hear them on shortwave.

When I was in Miami and able to hear ZNS3 (this was in 1980 with one logging of them in Ohio after that) it was heavily accented except when they were playing Herbert W. Armstrong's "World Tomorrow", and the audio sounded like it came in on a cheap phone line

 

[tanner]

Orlando WEUS

 

[BobSmolarek]

High Bridge NJ - daytime a weak but always there WGY. Nightime WGY of course and that French CJVA shows up quite often.

 

[foreverchanges1975]

Memphis, TN

Daytime: Nothing

Sunset: WCKA Jacksonville, AL

Nighttime: A mess, but a weak WHB is usually dominant.

 

[Kansas Guy]

Of course here in eastern Kansas I get WHB Kansas City MO sports programming day and night. Surprised 50K daytime signal not picked up by more listeners on this board at dawn or dusk.

 

[wildthangjim]

Growing up in Tulsa during the 70's 810 in KC, KCMO then, was a daytime regular. At dusk, the Magee MS station overpowered them, and at night, KCMO was not as strong but usually on top of the frequency.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

Edinburgh,Indiana...nothing but Indy's WSYW during the day. WGY at night.