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AM Frequency of the Week - 870 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 870 AM?

Here in Vermilion, during the day I get a semi-weak WKAR/E. Lansing, MI (Michigan State University station). At night, it's all WWL/New Orleans with varying signal strength and varying amount of IBOC from WCBS 880.
 
suburban Rochester NY:

WHCU in Ithaca (about 80 miles to my SE) during the day, when they're 5 kW ND. At night, WHCU switches to a different site where it runs 1 kW, aimed NE. I can still hear it somewhat at night, but it mixes with WWL.
 
Memphis: Nothing in the daytime. all WWL at night.
 
From Tampa ....

Daytime - WWL (weak) with splatter from 860 WGUL.

Nighttime - WWL (strong) with Radio Reloj often in the background.




On the beach only 20 miles west of here, WWL has a near local sounding signal in the daytime.
 
foreverchanges1975 said:
Memphis: Nothing in the daytime. all WWL at night.
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Other than slop from Columbus' WRFD, same case here just east of Columbus, Ohio. I don't think I've ever heard another station on WWL, and it's as dependable as any flamethrower from the Midwest.
 
Northern VA,
Days, I get nothing but on nights I get a semi-local sounding WWL along with Cuban and the IBOC from WCBS.
 
From Houston - WWL daytime with a weak but listenable signal.
 
Bellevue, WA

870 is a very hard frequency 24/7 due to monster splatter from KIXI 880 (which I live about 2mi from it's 50kw/10kw transmitter). Days it's nothing and nights, if I can get around KIXI, is a mess. KFLD Pasco, WA's 250w night power seems to be the most common. I have also heard WWL a couple times from NOLA as well. Did also hear a presumed CFBV Smithers, BC with Hot AC but never could ID it.

-crainbebo
 
From NE NC car radio. Mid days nothing. Critical hours is WPWT 870 Colonial Heights, TN about 350 miles. Nights is WWL.
 
SW OHIO

Thanks to WWL, for me this is not a frequently visited night DX frequency, though I have has success during my drive home from work.

DAYS
Nothing

SUNSET
WMTL Leitchfield KY - Heard only once
WKAR E. Lansing MI - Occasional
WPWT Colonial Heights TN
WFLO Farmville VA - Heard only once.
WTCG Mt. Holly (Charlotte) NC - Heard only once.
KPRM - Park Rapids MN - Heard only once.

NIGHT
WWL New Orleans - As one would expect, one of the most regular, formerly clear channel stations.
Cuba - Reloj.
 
870 from Lexington, KY:

Daytime:

WMTL Leitchfield, KY

Sunrise/Sunset:

WCHU Ithaca, NY
WKAR E. Lansing, MI
WQRX Valley Head, AL


Night:

WWL New Orleans, LA
Radio Reloj Cuba
 
NE PA daytime here .... nada.

At sunset ... WHCU at times .... perhaps one or two others possible at that time.

Nighttimes .... WWL. They're kind of like a Southern WBZ, sending it all to as many of the contiguous 48 as possible.
And the ubiquitous Radio Reloj.

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Olden days, from Laurelton Queens, NYC, we'd get a treat. But only on the sparse occasions when WCBS and WWL were both off the air. An MoR station on 870 would come in, faintly but still there, in English. It was WHOA San Juan Puerto Rico. I remember hearing them at 3:30 AM and they played a jingle: 'Four-thirty, four thirty ... it's half-past the hour of fourrrrr.'
 
In East Texas near Tyler during the day, 1,000 watt daytimer KFJZ in Fort Worth is audible, but barely. Their pattern definitely doesn't favor this direction at all, which is along the path to New Orleans.

At night WWL comes booming in, with only the slightest hint of Radio Reloj underneath at times. In fact, WWL is consistently about the clearest and strongest thing on the band here at night. To add some perspective, WOAI is a close second, but the two 50kW's from Dallas/Fort Worth don't fare well at all. WBAP has cancellation issues here and reception of KRLD is awful, with moderate cancellation and the added problem of co-channel interference.
 
Far Northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: Sometimes a very weak WKAR
Night: Strong WWL, but sometimes with R. Reloj underneath.

As posted in another thread, and as many regulars here are aware, I'm spending this week at our usual beach getaway place about 23 miles southwest of downtown Pensacola. WWL is easily the strongest daytime signal here. WWL is also rock solid at night, but R. Reloj is usually clearly audible underneath.
 
I don't know the specifics as far as signal power goes but I can say that the daytime coverage map seems to be spot on as far as a listenable signal is concerned from my experience here in the Tampa Bay area.

While it's strong and almost local sounding out at the beach, it's listenable about as far inland as that line on the map goes, which is good for an AM signal 500 miles away.

If the Gulf was twice as wide as it is, I bet WWL would still be audible at 1000 miles right on the coast in the daytime.
 
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