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AM Frequency of the Week: 870

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cyberdad

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40 Miles NW of Downtown Chicago....

Days: Basically Blank except until recently, TIS from nearby town, Cary, IL

Nights: WWL, New Orleans with fair-good signal. One one or two instances, I;ve heard R.eloj time pips underneat.

Other Location: Near Pensacola, WWL is strong 24/7 via 140 mile saltwater path. R. Rel;pj sometimes underneath at night.
 
Kenosha, WI Daytime- WKAR East Lansing, MI. NPR from Michigan State University 10,000 Watt daytimer. Weak but audible in most of the area; being close to the lake helps.

Nights- WWL New Orleans usually listenable, sometimes strong. I don't think their signal is what it used to be. It used to be a reliable listen all night, now not so much. Many of the 50K Clears seem to be considerably weaker these days...
 
@asugeorge1
The most recent logging (and taping) of The Wobbler was as background listening ambience from January this year. Word at the time was that there were three R..Relojs on 870 in Cuba and WOBL might've been one of them. Perhaps that riddle has been settled in a subsequent alert I missed.
Days on 870 is zilch here. SSS gave me a nice log and tape of WHCU Ithaca NY.
Nighttimes it's WWL. And a R.Reloj. Haven't spent much time on 870 as of late.
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Retro to Queens NYC brings a fond recall of a faint station, all alone, playing 'Shangri-La' by the Jackie Gleason Orchestra at some 3:30 AM. A jingle went : 'Four thirteee ..... four thirteee : It's half past the hour of fourrrrrrrr....' from the at-the-time English speaking WHOA from San Juan PR. I surmise now that 50,000-watt omni super local WCBS 880, 11 miles north, probably wasn't on at the time.
 
Clifton, New Jersey

Days: Nothing

Nights: It depends on propagation. I have received WHCU Ithaca, NY, WWL New Orleans, LA and Radio Reloj from Cuba. I also got daytimer WPWT Colonial Heights, TN when they forgot to turn off the transmitter.
 
South Mississippi:

very strong signal from The Big 870 WWL New Orleans, which is directional making the signal much higher than 50 kw to the north. Even though they are on a full-market FM at 105.3, they still run the AM as it covers the entire southern half of Louisiana/Mississippi and much of the Florida and Texas coast. At times, the Wobbler has been heard in the background.
 
Denver, Colorado:

Daytime - A very weak KJMP - Pierce (Fort Collins), CO. I can get a readable signal only on a GE Superadio. It's 1200 watts daytime but highly directional toward Fort Collins, which is west of Pierce. Programs some sort of R&B format and mostly puts its 104.5 Fort Collins translator into the spotlight. No change of getting it at night: 320 watts with an even tighter pattern. I'm roughly 73 miles away.

Nighttime - WWL New Orleans, with varying signal strength and often having to contend with next-door 880 KRVN.

(Edit: Adding a little more info about KJMP)
 
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Mountain View, Hawaii ...

Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - sometimes WWL


And I still haven't solved the mystery of when I was living in Florida.

When I first got my Sangean PR-D5, WWL came in real well and listenable during the day in Tampa when I had the radio in the right position to null out the splatter from WGUL on 860, though there was still a little bit but hardly noticeable.

Then one day I could barely hear WWL at all under the splatter from 860 and that was permanent.

I'm just wondering if the salinity of the Gulf between there and New Orleans was unusually high for a short time, allowing me to get WWL so well as far inland as Tampa.
 
kw - Melbourne FL (35 miles south of KSC)

870- WWL - New Orleans LA - 870AM //105.3 -News, sports – CBS - 2023

870 - CMBD -Cuba - Radio Reloj - News, time - 2023 - "wobbler" 2023

870 - HIVG - La Vega RD - Radio La Vega - 2009 EDT - Spanish – music & IDs - 2001
 
cyberdad said:
40 Miles NW of Downtown Chicago....

Days: Basically Blank except until recently, TIS from nearby town, Cary, IL

Nights: WWL, New Orleans with fair-good signal. One one or two instances, I;ve heard R.eloj time pips underneat.

Other Location: Near Pensacola, WWL is strong 24/7 via 140 mile saltwater path. R. Rel;pj sometimes underneath at night.
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Near north Chicago suburbs days a fair signal from WKAR, nights WWL with a good signal but not as strong as it used to be.
 
radioman148 said:
Near north Chicago suburbs days a fair signal from WKAR, nights WWL with a good signal but not as strong as it used to be.
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Exactly the same case with WWL here in central Ohio, in the Columbus suburbs.
Nothing daytime with local WRFD next door on 880.
Listening to WWL provided me my first lesson in the conductivity of salt water, albeit not immediately. I was in Panama City Beach in March 2000 for spring break and heard WWL blasting into my transistor radio about 15 feet from the shore. I had no idea how a signal from that far off could be that strong until a few years later when I joined this site and learned that lesson.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Nothing

Nights - Usually WWL with a fair to good signal. However tonight I hear a very faint broadcast of Sunday Night Football which is WWL, also a few time pips, and some interference probably the WOBBLER. It reminds me of the old Shortwave Days with Russian jamming of the VOA. Poor WWL being on that frequency.
 
Canyon Lake, Texas: Nada by day, WWL at night. During the day, WWL makes it to Alice, 40 miles inland from Corpus Christi. Their signal does well on 281 going south to the Valley. The WWL ground wave goes a lot further inland in South Texas.
 
gar hi said:
Mountain View, Hawaii ...

Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - sometimes WWL


And I still haven't solved the mystery of when I was living in Florida.

When I first got my Sangean PR-D5, WWL came in real well and listenable during the day in Tampa when I had the radio in the right position to null out the splatter from WGUL on 860, though there was still a little bit but hardly noticeable.

Then one day I could barely hear WWL at all under the splatter from 860 and that was permanent.

I'm just wondering if the salinity of the Gulf between there and New Orleans was unusually high for a short time, allowing me to get WWL so well as far inland as Tampa.
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The brief time I lived in Sarasota, WWL was close to local quality during the day.
 
East Tennessee:
Days---WPWT "96.3 The Possum" Colonial Heights TN.
Night--WWL, with Radio Reloj and the Radio Reloj warbler (just heard last week)

Retro/other: Western, Ohio: WKAR would make an appearance. Also heard on the Edinburgh IN SDR (currently MIA). Lafayette IN area was WTIM, Assumption, IL.
 
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