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AM Frequency of the Week - 910 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all get on 910 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is WFDF/Farmington Hills, MI (Detroit) with Radio Disney with a fair signal. At night it's more of a mess with WFDF usually on top.
 
Location: Crystal Lake, IL - 40 miles NW of Chicago.

KLCN Blytheville, AR sunset.
WSUI Iowa City, IA night. usually on top.
WGTO Cassopolis, MI daytime.
WFDF Farmington Hills, MI night.
KGLC Miami, OK night. (now KVIS)
WHSM Hayward, WI sunset.
WDOR Sturgeon Bay, WI sunset.
 
910 in Marysville WA
Days it's nothing usually, however CKDQ Drumheller AB has been making it 2-3 hours before sunset nowadays. Wintertime skywave.
Nights it's a mix of KMTT Portland OR (CBS Sports) and CKDQ. Sometimes KKSF Oakland CA makes it especially on southern nights, and I logged KWDZ-UT a couple times before they went off the air.
One of my most-wanted Oregon stations is on this frequency, a toughie, but KURY Brookings OR is needed.

-crainbebo
 
In northern VA, I get semi-weak WRNL Richmond VA and in afternoon, I get a little bit of WSBA York, PA underneath. That station sends its signal toward the Delaware Bay. Nights, generally a mess with often WLAT New Britain, CT with the Spanish programming on top.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago. I'm only a few miles from Stormy, but with one difference in the daytime. I've never heard WGTO at my QTH. But I can usually pick up a very faint WSUI. Night/sunset is the same as Stormy, except that I've never heard WFDF or KVIS.
 
From between El Cajon and Rancho San Diego, CA:

Day:
KECR El Cajon is local-grade, about 67 dBµ on my Tecsuns, with Harold Camping's Family Radio programming. (Their 5 kW transmitter is in Lakeside, 9.3 miles north of me.) BTW until several months ago during their public affairs programming, and when they'd run the spots mentioning their upcoming license renewal, they gave the address of their studio as "11865 Moreno Avenue, Lakeside, CA 92040." That's where the transmitter site is. What other stations have their main studio co-located with their main transmitter? (maybe that's a topic for another thread?)
When KECR is off, a Select-A-Tenna can bring in XEAO Mexicali. There's a signal there barefoot, but it's just about uncopyable.

Night:
KECR's pattern change (though still transmitting 5 kW) boosts the signal to about 71 dBµ or so.
Other stations heard include...
KGME Phoenix, AZ, in KECR's null
XEAO, also in KECR's null
KKSF Oakland, CA, when KECR was off the air. (They seem to be the most frequent station to be off the air in my local area.)
KWDZ Salt Lake City, UT, with Radio Disney, soon after Harry's botched Oct 21 prediction, over turkey day weekend. KECR's automation was way off kilter - the schedule was way off (programs that should have been running at mid morning were on at midnight, and the TOH/BOH ID was at :20 and :50), and there were often long silent / unmodulated-carrier periods. (So who else besides me sometimes logs DX stations under my locals while they're on the air? :) )
 
Between Hazleton and Pottsville here, it's a mix of WSBA from downstate York and the one to our northeast in Scranton.

Logged back ten years ago here had been CKLY and (a surprise) WRKL from Rockland County, a bit north of NYC.

Those loggings were on a Lafayette HA 600 and/or a GE SR II.

The GE SR III is a sprawling mess across 910 and too many adjacents, probably some sort of mixing effect with the 455 kHz IF. Wow, is that radio impossible. I had the 45 bucks to blow at the time, and used it for the rare FM DX occasions because the whip on the II came loose.
 
909 AM in Derby, UK is BBC Five Live- the BBC's news and sport network

I get a mixture of signals from Brookmans Park (London) and Moorside Edge (Yorkshire) which makes the signal a bit 'echo-ey' The other Five Live frequency is 693 from Droitwich (Worcestershire), which is a bit better -but not much!.

Both are dreadful after dark....
 
South of Indianapolis by 30 miles, WPFB/Middletown,OH wins when they are on and WAKO Lawrenceville,IL is there when Middletown isn't. Nothing dominant at night.
 
In Southeast MI, it has always been WFDF in the daytime. When you got into the nulls from the old 5 kW array, WAVL Apollo, PA would interfere, and at sunset, sometimes be stronger. You could get WFDF west of Cleveland in Ohio when I drove through there years ago. Some have said, perhaps David, that it did come in in Cleveland. In the Chicago area, you got WSUI even in the daytime, but it used to sign off at 8:00 PM (Specified Hours) as I recall, and KGLC, now KVIS, would blare in. The way KGLC's 270 degree spaced towers were set up, WSUI was protected by a high angle null, which became a lobe in that direction, by the time you got to Chicago. I'm sure that once WSUI became full time, and later reduced power to 4 kW night to protect other stations due to the ratchet clause, and moved further from Iowa City, that KVIS "clipping" outside their official NIF became a sensitive issue, and their engineers and consultants became very proactive about additional interference from other stations. To this day, I don't know why WFDF never filed for 5 kW nighttime from their old site back in the 1940s or 1950s. I heard WFDF once in Benton Harbor, near sunset, but they may have been on STA. Other stations heard include WRNL and WJCW around local sunset, and WBRJ Marietta, OH with whatever call letters it is now using, with PSA facilities.
 
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From Cincinnati, OH.

Days - WPFB Middletown, OH
Sunrise - WSIU Iowa City IA
Nights - WJCW Johnson City TN & WLTP in Marietta OH.

I assume the few times I've heard WLTP, they were running their 5KW day power.
 
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Kenosha, WI- WGTO Cassopolis, MI puts a pretty decent signal into SE WI/NE IL during the day. Once you get about 15 miles west of Lake Michigan it is gone. WSUI can usually be heard in their null.

WFDF used to be heard regularly in the day on their old facility. Now only sunrise/sunset.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: fair signal from WSBA in York PA
Night: mess of stations, including WSBA
 
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