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AM Frequency of the Week: 840

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cyberdad

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40 miles Northwest of Downtown Chicago....

Days: Not a lot to see (or hear) here. 840 is almost always blank. Sometimes during winter, however, a weak WHAS can turn up on daytime skywave.

Nights: WHAS with a good signal.

Other Location: At our beach location directly on the Florida-Alabama State line at the Gulf, 840 is a weak-fair signal from WBHY. Mobile. 10kw non-directional from about 45 miles away in Mobile, Yep, 10kw in an area with lousy ground conductivity doesn't exactly accomplish all that much. At night WHAS owns 840 with a solid skywave signal. Spanish underneath from time to time.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs: days usually nothing but sometimes a WGN image: nights all WHAS.
Out west all KXNT at night when I’m in Southern California.
 
WPGS - Mims FL - "Promesa 840" – Contemporary Christian music in Spanish and English - daytime

at night these two are heard:

CMHW - Villa Clara, Cuba - “W” (Dobleve) - Regional network
WHAS - Louisville KY - Newsradio 84 - Newstalk – ABC

kw - Melbourne FL
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days, zippo. Can't recall if WHAS flits in during the winter. Typically the WHAS groundwave reaches to north of Lafayette, Ind., not quite as far northwest as WLW.

Nights, it's WHAS Louisville with a big signal. Twice upon a time KWPN West Point, Neb., dropped in, more recently at 6:40 on a September morn with the new call of KTIC. Back in April 2021, CMHW Dobleve, Cuba (the most recent known call) was audible with 10 kW thanks to really good conditions and setting the AN-200 loop just so. I might have matched that to the old Key West SDR.
 
Battenkill50 said:
WPGS - Mims FL - "Promesa 840" – Contemporary Christian music in Spanish and English - daytime

at night these two are heard:

CMHW - Villa Clara, Cuba - “W” (Dobleve) - Regional network
WHAS - Louisville KY - Newsradio 84 - Newstalk – ABC

kw - Melbourne FL
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WPGS's facebook page makes it seem like the format is something else
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Wilmington Delaware

Days - Nothing

Nights - Good signal from WHAS. One of the better 50 KW non directional signals at night. It always seem to carry the same right wing programming as WGY on 810.
 
Hartland, VT:

Days: notthing. Nights: WHAS Louisville.

Meriden, CT:

Days: WRYM New Britain with a mix of reggaeton and older "tropical" music. Nights: Strong WHAS with WRYM audible underneath running its nighttime power of 250 watts.
 
East Tennessee-a weak WHAS. Night - a stronger WHAS. which owns the eastern third of the country. ith WHAS off for a couple of overnights a couple of years ago,I noted both 10kW Cubans. the aforementioned "W" and Radio Revolucion.
 
charlestondxman said:
In Charleston, almost nothing daytime. No sign of the Columbia Spanish station on 840 even thought it has 50kw.
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The Colombian station in Neiva is in the southern interior of the nation in the Andean mountains. It is 30 kw and not widely reported.
 
Denver, CO - Class A blowtorch next door - nothing. I discovered a fun fact (at least for me) about that blowtorch after looking at the history cards but more on that next week.

Oakland, CA (former location) - Daytimes, a very weak 840 KMPH from Modesto (the replacement station after KTRB's ill-fated move to San Francisco). I have a couple of recordings of program tests on KMPH on June 29, 2006. The station has since fallen into the clutches of "Relevant Radio". Nighttimes, a slightly stronger KMPH. I've also checked on the Point Reyes SDR, where KMPH is a little strong during the daytime and, at night, there's something clashing with it pretty hard. I haven't been able to identify the other station.

My historic notes on 840 indicate nothing other than WHAS in central Missouri at night.
 
gr8oldies said:
East Tennessee-a weak WHAS. Night - a stronger WHAS. which owns the eastern third of the country. ith WHAS off for a couple of overnights a couple of years ago,I noted both 10kW Cubans. the aforementioned "W" and Radio Revolucion.
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Same from Columbus, Ohio. We're about on the edge of WHAS' daytime groundwave signal. Back when then-WOSU on 820 was running IBOC, WHAS was blotted out and WKNR (850) took some interference as well.
I remember catching WHAS many nights in suburban Houston, usually quite well and stronger than WLW.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing
Nighttime: WHAS dominating the frequency

DX/Retro: sometimes during good conditions at night the Cuban Dobleve can be heard under WHAS. In recent months WHAS went off the air on several occasions opening the frequency up. CMHW Dobleve and CMKC Radio Revolucion were heard in WHAS's absence. Other DX on this frequency includes KTIC (West Point, NE), KWDF (Ball, LA), and the now defunct CHUR (North Bay, ON) back in mid-1980's. Most recent new log on 840 is KVJY (Pharr, TX) heard in 2021.
 
15 miles south of Orlando

Days WPGS Mims very weak. Up until about a year ago is was considerably stronger and had a classic rock format. On AM in 2022!

Nights WHAS usually reasonably good signal.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Splatter from adjacent local 850-KJON.
Nights: WHAS with a consistently strong signal. If southern conditions are active, KVJY Pharr, TX, mixes in with religion in Spanish.
Sunrise: KWDF Ball, LA and KTIC West Point, NE have been heard.
 
cyberdad said:
KTIC has a monster signal. 5kw Non-Directional daytimer. Audible in six states. From Minnesota to Kansas. South Dakota to Missouri.
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And SE Wy at sunrise/sunset
 
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