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AM Frequency of the Week: 810

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cyberdad

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Crystal Lake, IL....

(Sorry I'm a little late with this one)

Days: Splatter from local WCPT (820). Sometimes just a whiff of (WDMP), Dodgeville, WI. (RARE)

Nights: WGY Schenectady, NY. Usually weak, but reliable. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised the signal isn't a bit better than it usually is. WSYW. supposedly a 250-watt daytimer, sometimes turns up at night. It's not unheard of to even to even overtake WHY. I've also heard WHB from Kansas City a handful of times.

Sunrise/Sunset: WCPC Magee, MS sometimes blasts in. On the Gulf Coast, as well as at my home location. (WCKA Jacksonville, AL is more common sunrise/sunset on the Gulf). Both WCKA and WCPC run 50kw run 50kw day power/500 watts nights.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime: Nothing. Sunrise/sunset WSJS Magee MI now and then.

Night: Usually WGY but with auroral conditions, ZNS3 in the Bahama will make it in with a good signal.

Retro/other: Indiana/Ohio. A weak (currently) WSYW, with several identities, including Beautiful Music WATI.

Quincy, IL. KCMO was on 810 in 1985-86 with talk, which sometimes I'd listen to on the way to the radio station (KGRC).

FLORIDA: on I-95 heading to Miami on the southeast coast, I had ZNS3 with bright sunshine. Nothing at all unusual about that, there's no reason one wouldn't get it, but it was cool to get "exotic DX" per midwest standards in the middle of the day.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - A very weak signal from WYRE in Annapolis MD. It only has 250 watts and I can hear it on my car radio if I'm in an interference free area.

Nights - A good signal from WGY with some fading. Usually my HD radio starts flashing indicating it has an HD signal but it has never locked in on it. Tonight however the HD light did not come on so maybe they aren't in HD anymore. The only other AM station in HD I've heard is WPHT 1210 in Philadelphia.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

First and almost always at night, WGY Schenectady, first way back when it was owned by General Electric and an NBC affiliate.

Next, on occasion, KCMO then and WHB now, most recently in December 2021. The 60th and most recent of the three-letter calls I've logged.

Once, in heavily auroral conditions, HJCY Bogota, Colombia, with 250 kW according to the WRTH.

More recent one-off catches: WCKA Jacksonville, Ala., close to midnight surely on 50 kW day power; ZNS-3 Freeport, Bahamas for a couple of nights on day pattern with 10 kW (country No. 10); and most recently WMGC Murfreesboro, Tenn., at 10 p.m. one night in 2022 on 5 kW day power.
 
kw - Melbourne FL

810 - ZNS3 - Freeport GB - 810 AM - The Light - Gospel – BRN - 2023 - good days and nights
810 - WRSO - Orlovista FL - Accion 97.9 - Spanish – news, talk - 2023 - Orlando area
810 - WGY - Schenectady NY --- News, talk - 2016
810 - HJCY - Bogota COL - Caracol - Spanish - 1991
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: empty, but did hear WJPW (Rockford, MI) long time ago
Nighttime: usually WGY, sometimes WHB. WSJC (Magee, MS) and WMGC (Murfreesboro, TN) sometimes heard, but suspect they use daytime power when they do.

DX/Retro: some DX includes KBHB (Sturgis, SD), WJJQ (Tomahawk, WI), WDDD (Johnson City, IL), WDMP (Dodgeville, WI), WCTA (Alamo, TN), WCKA (Jacksonville, AL). Radio Sutatenza, Bogota, Colombia was heard in 1984 with reported 120 kW. XEFW, Tampico, Mexico heard in 2002, but they are no longer on the air. ZNS3 Freeport, Bahamas was first heard heard back in 1984, but it took until 2022 to be heard again. Since 2022 they have been heard on several occasions usually during auroral condition. My most recent new logs on this frequency are WCKA (Jqcksonville, AL) and WWOS (St. George, SC). Both heard in 2021.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Splatter from local 820-WBAP.
Nights: WHB Kansas City is dominant with sports talk. Sometimes, KYTY Somerset TX (Star 810) will sneak in with Christian music.
Sunset: Along with WHB, I have heard KLVZ Brighton CO with oldies.
Sunrise: With WHB nulled, WCKA Jacksonville AL is common, with KSWV Sante Fe NM taking over later in the early morning.
Rare: I've caught a weak ZNS3 Freeport Bahamas on a few occasions in the overnight, when southern conditions are strong.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day/Sunset: It's local KYTY in Somerset, just south of San Antonio.

Night: Aiming E/NE I can get a small partial null of KYTY in which I often hear a weak (but only occasionally readable) WHB.

Sunrise: WHB is gone, and classic country WCKA comes up for a bit in the null when it goes to day power. A few times at 7 a.m. CT I’ve heard a station playing the Mexican national anthem that I've never been able to ID.

DX/Retro: I logged WSJC in Magee, MS, once at night when it was still on day power. Also, before XERI in Reynosa was retired, I could usually hear it mixing with WHB.

KYTY has been off air several times in the past few years, which has allowed me to hear XEHT in Huamantla and KLVZ in Brighton, CO, twice each plus XEEMM in Salmanca (night) and KSWV (when it was "Suave Radio" - at sunrise) once each.
 
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Nothing daytime here in central Ohio. WGY at night, although that's a frequency I haven't visited in a long time.
I remember once many years ago, maybe around 2005, I heard WHB on day power around midnight-1 a m. one night and it was blowing WGY out.
I am pretty sure I heard WHB on several occasions when I lived in the Houston area.
 
Tyler TX:

Basically mirrors what @TXPH97 has contributed. WBAP steps on 810 during the day, but at night nearly always sports WHB KC with an occasional rise of Star 810 in San Antonio.
 
It seems like there's a rule that, in most places I've lived, there's always something on 810. Examples:

Oakland, CA - the original city of license for KGO

Denver, CO - KLVZ, featuring HD AM sidebands on adjacent channels

Kansas City, MO; Columbia, MO, southern Iowa - KCMO (as it was then - now WHB) - I still have trouble thinking of WHB as being on 810, since that switch happened after I moved from Kansas City.

New Mexico - KSWV from Santa Fe, at least during the daytime

Want to hear the "Music 81 KCMO" song from 1978? https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/p6jm1x0edrfl3m6/KCMO.1978.05.26.mp3/file (starting 3 minutes in)
 
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Kansas City, MO; Columbia, MO, southern Iowa - KCMO (as it was then - now WHB) - I still have trouble thinking of WHB as being on 810, since that switch happened after I moved from Kansas City.
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I still have trouble thinking of WHB as being on 810k, myself. In college in southeast Iowa, I spent a lot of time listening to the "Worlds Happiest Broadcasters" in those days when it was on 710. KCMO was on 810 at that time, and each of them had a fair signal, Each of them also vanished at sunset. My then-girlfriend lived in northwest Iowa, and WHB (on 710) there was solid 24/7. KCMO (on 810) was good daytime, not so much at night.
 
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Days and nights: On the SF Peninsula, KGO. (In one of their side lobes. One of their former CE's once told me the side lobes were themselves the equivalent of a 5Kw station.) Their tower array is visible out my window.

Nights: When visiting Seattle, Portland or Vancouver, KGO.

When visiting L.A., O.C., Santa Barbara or Sandy Ago, KGO.

When visiting Las Vegas or Arizona, KGO.

Anyone detecting a (figure 8) pattern here?

Truly a waste of a great station to run a sports betting format.
 
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