AM Frequency of The Week: 950

[KyleSmith1988]

From here in Gaffney SC...950 WORD-AM does good 24/7...but they simulcast on 106.3 WYRD

 

[BobOnTheJob]

WXLW Indianapolis days and a jumble at night 30 miles south of Indy. Their 50 watt night signal doesn't make it here.

 

[N4GBK]

From NE NC car radio. Days 950 WXGI Richmond, VA. Sunrise/sunset WPEN Philadelphia and WORD Spartanburg, SC.

 

[KA7PAT]

Daytime:
Summer: nothing Winter: KJR Seattle
Nights: normally KJR Sometimes XEGM or a mix

 

[crainbebo]

I wonder if that's the Mex. station I've been hearing a couple times in deep KJR nulls here? All I'm trying to get at night under it is KMTX. Wonder if the Cascades block it? In Yakima, on the other side of the Cascades, KMTX Helena CCIed KJR pretty good.

-crainbebo

 

[cd637299]

I wonder if that's the Mex. station I've been hearing a couple times in deep KJR nulls here? All I'm trying to get at night under it is KMTX. Wonder if the Cascades block it? In Yakima, on the other side of the Cascades, KMTX Helena CCIed KJR pretty good.

-crainbebo

I caught the 950 in Tijuana during my Alaska tour 1978-80 (as XEKAM). It was one of only about 4 or 5 Mexicans I caught there, XEG 1050 being the farthest.

I never was able to get what shoulda been the most obvious one, XETRA 690, due to KBYR 700 (even w/ 500 watts at the time) being 24/7. I might have it on my log as a question mark.

cd

 

[pianoplayer88key]

The 950 in Tijuana is currently XEKAM, although they pronounce it Equis-E-Kam (X-E-KAM).

 

[drt]

From the fringe of downtown St. Petersburg, on my car radio, 950 during the day is a blend of three things; the strongest is the IBOC hash from WFLA 970 and underneath the IBOC hash I can hear Radio Reloj (Cuba) and here and there I can hear bits and pieces of the political talk/religious station out of Orlando. At night (WFLA turns off IBOC at night), it is strictly Radio Reloj.

Indoors on a Sangean PR-D5 it's mostly Radio Reloj, but I can null that out and can receive the 950 out of Orlando during the day.( No IBOC hash from 970 on the Sangean.) - at night on the Sangean, strictly Radio Reloj, not a trace of 950 out of Orlando.

drt

 

[cd637299]

Bizarrely, here in Broward County, Reloj on 950 hardly makes a whisper. Go west, south----heck maybe even north & the little east there is left---Reloj is heard everywhere on 950.

cd

 

[drt]

Bizarrely, here in Broward County, Reloj on 950 hardly makes a whisper. Go west, south----heck maybe even north & the little east there is left---Reloj is heard everywhere on 950.

cd

That is amazing, is your proximity to the WINZ 940 towers a factor?, or is this just another one of life's little mysteries?!?

I assume that WINZ is not using IBOC (as do most ClearChannel stations).
drt

 

[cd637299]

Bizarrely, here in Broward County, Reloj on 950 hardly makes a whisper. Go west, south----heck maybe even north & the little east there is left---Reloj is heard everywhere on 950.

cd

That is amazing, is your proximity to the WINZ 940 towers a factor?, or is this just another one of life's little mysteries?!?

I assume that WINZ is not using IBOC (as do most ClearChannel stations).
drt

WINZ not a factor like it was in the 70s & 80s when I had cheap nonselective AM radios. In the 80s I lived only about 1-2 miles from their array.

WSUA 1260 is now the only AM IBOC station here, day and night.

cd

 

[drt]

WINZ not a factor like it was in the 70s & 80s when I had cheap nonselective AM radios. In the 80s I lived only about 1-2 miles from their array.

WSUA 1260 is now the only AM IBOC station here, day and night.

cd

The ClearChannel AM stations in the Tampa cluster (620, 970 and 1250) are IBOC by day and non IBOC at night.

drt

 

[Lopaka]

Long ago when then XEGM was off the air I got KJR Seattle & KIMN Denver, both were rockers.

 

[boombox]

South King County, Washington:

Nighttime: KJR Seattle, and I've logged KTBR, Roseburg, Oregon, peeking through its very tight null.

I've also heard (but not yet IDed) the Mexican station which I believe is XEKAM, because it comes from a N-S bearing (coincidentally KJR's null).

One of these days.... well, nights, actually....

 

[ddsparxx]

Update from the post I made in Nov. 2010, DC's WCTN is now playing oldies in English language. No longer Spanish. Between Spanish and oldies the station had a talk format, it was off the air at certain times, other times I heard only its carrier.

 

[crainbebo]

I get KMTX Helena when I am in Yakima. Causes lots of CCI to KJR. Guess it's night coverage stops at Snoqualmie Pass due to the Cascades...

-crainbebo