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AM Frequency of the Week: 930

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930 was an interesting frequency when I was growing up in New Jersey because whenever my parents and I made the trip up the turnpike to see the relatives in north Jersey, my mom would always tune the radio to WPAT Patterson when it would start to come in fairly well around Exit 8.

They played elevator music back in those days.

Then going back home at night, we'd have to listen to it again but it was better for me because we would start to lose the signal already soon after exit 10 which meant I could put WABC back on. :)

Now that I look at their day and night coverage map, it confirms exactly why it could only be heard in north Jersey and why I could never hear it at all, day or night, in south Jersey where we lived around Exit 4.

WPAT-AM 930 kHz - Paterson, NJ

Radio Station Information for WPAT 930 kHz AM, Paterson, NJ
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Local, News Radio 'WHLM" 930 is a good car radio listen in the day. Despite the moiker, they play Oldies all day! (They used to be WCNR, which I heard back in Queens one afternoon in one period of local WPAT silence.)
One sunset WSEV from TN came in ; got 'em taped somewhere.

There is a 'KWOC' from Missouri in the log and on tape -- from 27 years ago! Perhaps someone here remembers if it was a DX test. Date was 3-13-95,

WBEN is the regular nighttime squatter.

I can vouch that this Radio-Locator map of nighttime WPAT is accurate, with that huge null protecting something southwest. On a drive home one night up along Route 1 I said, 'Hmmm. WPAT is off?'
It was at Avenel NJ that WPAT started to fade in. WBEN was all alone until that point.

WPAT-AM Radio Station Coverage Map

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I still have no idea what WPAT protects that way at night. There's nothing that major to avoid.
Maybe it's WBEN, hi ?
 
930 was wide open days before WBYG Sandwich, Ill., signed on. Later WAUR, now WKBM, it duplicates 950's Relevant Radio feed all day and night. I'd think that makes one of them irrelevant, but obviously the two signals don't duplicate their real estate completely.

Pre-WBYG, going back to 1970 or so, reception included WEOL Elyria, Ohio; WKCT Bowling Green, Ky.; WGNT Huntington, W.Va.; WKY Oklahoma City; CJCA Edmonton, Alta. (a long haul for a 5 kW night signal), and WTAD Quincy, Ill.

I was about to write that it's next to impossible to cut through WBYG's signal for an ID, so I turn on the Sony ICF-2010, and before I even fiddle with the loop, there's "The Fat One ... 102.7" which is WFAT Battle Creek. Easily overriding WBYG for the last 10 minutes with oldies at 1 kW, new for me, and AM station 550.
 
I just went to the central New Jersey SDR near Princeton where it's midnight local time and there is no trace of WPAT.

What I am hearing is a good signal from WBEN Buffalo with Coast to Coast AM and a station in the background playing R&B music.

I went to the website of WPAT and they have talk in some foreign language.
 
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It's an open frequency here in central Ohio and pretty much anywhere else I've lived. 930 falls next to local WMNI on 920, and despite that directional signal not much comes into this area on 930.
The only 930s I've had much experience with have been WEOL in Elyria, Ohio and the former WAUR (now WKBM) from Sandwich, Illinois, when I've been visiting family and friends.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Weak WKY Oklahoma City on the car radio, outside of house noise level.
Sunrise: I've heard WLSS Sarasota, FL and WTAD Quincy, IL.
Nights: Surprisingly quiet frequency. Most often heard is KLUP San Antonio "The Answer" and a weak WKY OKC with sports. Rarely, KCCC Carlsbad, NM with Classic Country.
 
I've had the same experience with WKBM Sandwich, IL -- that's usually what comes in at night, and has been for several years. Formerly, I would usually hear WTAD Quincy, IL, WKY Oklahoma City, and once heard KKIN Aitkin, MN.
 
Central Kansas:
Daytime, it’s usually a fair to weak WKY/OKC. Nighttime, I’ve not been able to ID anything.

North Iowa:
Locally, an open frequency.
 
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