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AM Frequency of the Week (Week 4): 690

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mimo

What do you hear or have heard at 690 AM

Here in Ottawa, it is dominated both day and night by CINF Montreal, less than 2 hours away.

Other Notables I have heard include:
CBU Vancouver
WIST/WTIX New Orleans
A religious station in St. Louis and I believe there is also a 690 In Minneapolis/St. Paul
 
Here in Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix area), I get KVOI, Tucson during the day. They run 250 watts, ND days, and 3 watts, ND nights. At night, I receive XEWW, Tijuana.
 
WOKV in Jacksonville has been like a local station in Myrtle Beach, SC, for years. When it was Big Ape, I think it was THE Top 40 station during the day, even before there was one there.

Though in recent years, most AM stations, even WOKV, have had a hard time with all the high-rises with their AC going.

And that's in October. I haven't gone there in the summer since 1998. Actually, I haven't gone during the "real" summer since 1990. If summer is defined as starting Memorial Day weekend and ending Labor Day weekend.
 
In the Dallas area it's generally KGGF Coffeyville KS at night (with XEN Mexico City underneath). And yes, they've got excellent groundwave coverage and can be heard during the day as well.
 
MW_FM_DT_DXer said:
Here in Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix area), I get KVOI, Tucson during the day. They run 250 watts, ND days, and 3 watts, ND nights. At night, I receive XEWW, Tijuana.
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Wow, I'm always learning something new about radio stations out there. When I see 3 watts at night, I wonder why bother?? How many of their listeners could possibly be even able to hear the station at night? Especially with the possible interference from 50kw (at night) XEWW not that far away. Why not keep it a daytime only station? Anyway curiosity always wins so I check radio-locator to look at the "coverage" and from there checked the station's website. "Intelligent Talk" - Right away I knew that's the same motto of Salem-owned KRLA Los Angeles with many of the same hosts.

LOL they even had on their home page a link for "Reception Tips" an excerpt quoted below for your reading pleasure. :)


"At night we are required to reduce the power output of our radio station. This will greatly affect radio reception in most areas of town. In some cases you may still be able to improve night reception by following the tips above"

http://www.kvoi.com/tips.php
 
KGGF is fairly solid over most of Central Kansas during the day. Where i'm at (35 miles south of Salina), the night signal is a bit iffy at times but I can usually pull it out of the hash if in a quiet location.
 
On 690 AM here in central Connecticut, I get a weak daytime signal of WADS-AM from Ansonia, CT, whicle at night, I'll get a French language station from Montreal.
 
40 Miles NW of Chicago.....

CINF doesn't exactly have an overpowering nighttime signal here, but its still good enough to own the channel.

KGGF occasionally schleps in before going to their nighttime pattern.

WTIX used to sometimes show up...but not since it morphed into WIST.

(I'm writing this tonight from about four miles from CBU's stick...hell of a signal in my hotel room ;D)
 
From Delaware; during the day I get a Spanish religeous station from Phoenixville, PA. Early evenings I get some WOKV from Jacksonville until Montreal comes in like a local. On occasion however, there is some powerful Spanish under Montreal. This may be the big powerhouse from Spain that I believe is on 692 or 683. I forget which one.
 
In Somerset County NJ: Radio-Canada was strong before it moved to FM. Info 690 is not so.

When Radio-Canada was on 690 it was 50 kw ND from Brossard. Info 690 is 50 kw DA-1, main lobes W and NE, from the Kahnewake reservation SW of Montreal.

I came across WAPE-690 once -- in the early 80's when it was a country station.
 
If it's anything in WLW's back yard, it's CINF. When I lived in Quincy,IL I had the religious station in St. Louis which I've also heard in Lafayette, IN.
 
Hello. This is my first post, as I am sctvhound on one of the other message boards, the NFL TV one. Well, in Charleston, SC, 690 WOKV is as strong as ever, as I can pick it up every day with just a little power line interference, but I lose it at night.

They have an amazing signal. I have heard it in Winter Haven, FL, nearly 150 miles south, on a Walkman, and I have also heard it very well in Orlando, Daytona Beach, in Savannah, the entire Charleston area, Myrtle Beach, Wilmington, and all the way out to Cape Hatteras. It even comes in weakly in the car out just past the I95-I26 junction, 65 miles inland from the ocean.

I also pick up WSPZ in Birmingham sometimes at sunset, and have never picked up Montreal but once or twice.
 
gr8oldies said:
If it's anything in WLW's back yard, it's CINF. When I lived in Quincy,IL I had the religious station in St. Louis which I've also heard in Lafayette, IN.
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Then that's what I used to hear in Columbus, albeit extremely faintly. The last time I was back to visit in March, 690 and 710 were basically WLW's IBOC hash. Is 700 still running IBOC 24/7? From Texas there's no way for me to tell.
 
...when I worked at what was then WXOL/690 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, we were getting regular callers from Rockford, Illinois, with that 250 watts on the marble-shooter pattern. The station that's there now is a theocratic political talker, WVCY; I have the oiginal WAGO/690 Oshkosh building sign against my Phoenix living room wall at this moment...
 
I'm right on the northwestern daytime fringe line of KSTL, St. Louis, and that's about how well it comes in. Never logged anything on 690 at night, and probably never will with WLW IBOC...
 
Bothell, WA
Only one:
690 CBU Vancouver, BC Heard both day and night

-crainbebo
 
From Clovis CA I get XEWW from Tijuana Mexico,Back in the 70's and 80's it was Known as the MIGHTY 6-90 it was TOP-40 then (XETRA) it's signal covers all of Southern and Central California.
 
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