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AM Frequency of the Week - 900 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 900 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a very weak CHML/Hamilton, ON during the day. Near sunset it comes in stronger sometimes mixing with another 900 playing Spanish music, possibly WJWL or WILC (haven't IDed it yet)
 
In the Albany, NY area, it's local WUAM Watervliet, broadcasting the audio of cable all-news channel YNN. The station is a recent entry in the Albany market proper, having been a rimshot in Saratoga Springs -- about 30-35 miles north of Albany -- for most of its existence. WUAM moved to Albany in 2008, which is when it picked up the YNN (then Capital News 9) simulcast.

Before WUAM moved in, the most frequent identifiable catch on 900 was CHML.
 
Far northwest suburban Chicago....

Day: WLS splatter
Night: More WLS splatter. Not much else of anything, but CHML most likely candidate to be on top.
 
EmBee said:
In the Albany, NY area, it's local WUAM Watervliet, broadcasting the audio of cable all-news channel YNN.
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Interesting format, do they resell the commercials on the radio or do you get the audio of the TV ads?

Here I get WBRV Booneville, NY a 1kw daytime oldies station. Not too long ago they played the same country that their FM station played. Then the AM went independent playing oldies and they added a few FM translators for the AM signal.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs:

Day: light splatter from WLS,

night: CHML if anything. Used to also be XEW in Mexico City, but I haven't heard it in awhile.
 
about 1-1.5 mi south of El Cajon, CA...

Day:
910 KECR splatter
when KECR is off (which seems to be more often than pretty much any other station in the San Diego area, and it often takes co-located KCBQ down with it), using a Tecsun PL-380, PL-606 or PL-398mp with the Select-A-Tenna, I *think* I can just barely make out what sounds like it could be a voice buried in the static. (Or at least it sounds to me to have the inflections / sound pattern of a human voice, maybe.) http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hx8waxkbb079x4r I have a hunch it could be KALI from West Covina, CA, but I'm not sure. I haven't been able to use the fence or utility pole trick (holding the radio & SAT up to those) due in part to static (especially at the util pole, although right by my house isn't all that terrible) and overloading/blocking/desensing from other strong local stations at different frequencies. Looking at KALI's pattern, they have a deep null toward me (and only run 500 watts anyway). KBIF in Fresno is omnidirectional 1 kW, but is considerably farther away. Which station might be more likely? There's also a 5 kW omnidirectional in Cd.Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, but it's about 670 miles east of me (about 240 miles south of El Paso) and I seriously doubt it would make it all the way to Southern California.

Night:
More 910 KECR splatter. (They run 5 kW day and night, but with a slightly different antenna pattern at night that sends a few dB more juice my way.)
In KECR's null: weak, but readable XEW from Mexico City.
 
Northern VA,

WILC Laurel, MD, semilocal signal on days. Nights, CHML though not very strong and hardly WILC.

Buckeyes, you may have heard WILC during sunset.
 
Baldwin County, Alabama, during the day it's a weak WGOK from Mobile, part of a gospel simulcast with WXQW 660 in Fairhope. At one time the station broadcast in C-QUAM stereo but for the last decade or so it's just been sub-sub-sub par audio on both frequencies. Yep, Cumulus doesn't treat them very well!
 
Day-Nothing
Early evening-IRIB Iran 600 KW@875 Miles
Later BSKSA Saudi Arabia is underneath 1,000 KW@1,550 miles.
DXing in Kandahar, Afghanistan
 
From Perth Australia

Day and night it's 6BY Radio West (AC format), Bridgetown Western Australia (about 150 miles south of me). Daytime, it's alone, at night there's a mess underneath, but haven't ID'd anything else.

From Port Douglas, QLD, days nothing. At night it was NBC in Papua New Guinea, with several stations underneath. This would be an interesting frequency to monitor from Port Douglas as the nearest Aussie is in Alice Springs, over 900 miles away at 2kw.
 
Bellevue, WA

Used to be CKMO Victoria in daytime, but that went off the air. Now, nothing heard daytime, and mostly CKBI Prince Albert, Sask. at night with C&W. Also heard before: KKRT Wenatchee, WA with sports, and CHML Hamilton, ON [2000+ mi!] with ID and old time radio. Was a heartstopper log for me...

-crainbebo
 
From NE NC. Days is a weak WIAM Williamston, NC. Critical hours WCPA Clearfield, PA and WNMB North Myrtle Beach, SC. Nights 900 CHML Hamilton, ON.
 
Here daytime 900 is a constant WJLG Savannah (a sports station). In the immediate Charleston area you get lots of splatter from 910, but you go anywhere near the beach and the signal gets considerably stronger.

If you are west of Folly Beach, the signal is stronger than the local 910. At night though it disappears.
 
radioman148 said:
night: ........ Used to also be XEW in Mexico City, but I haven't heard it in awhile.
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Ditto. Same here. But actually it's been so long since I've heard them in these parts, I'd forgotten about XEW until you mentioned them. I have heard them during the past couple of years when my travels have taken me to the south and southwest, but nothing impressive about their signal. (Although that could be due to other stuff competing with them on the channel)
 
cyberdad said:
radioman148 said:
night: ........ Used to also be XEW in Mexico City, but I haven't heard it in awhile.
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Ditto. Same here. But actually it's been so long since I've heard them in these parts, I'd forgotten about XEW until you mentioned them. I have heard them during the past couple of years when my travels have taken me to the south and southwest, but nothing impressive about their signal. (Although that could be due to other stuff competing with them on the channel)
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XEW used to be a regular in the Midwest. I wonder if they still run 250 KW?
 
Memphis

Days nothing
Nights XEW is almost always there and fairly strong
 
Icangelp said:
XEW used to be a regular in the Midwest. I wonder if they still run 250 KW?
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David, if you're out there following this thread and you know something, perhaps you can help us out with this one.

Thanks.
 
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