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AM highlights Perdido Key, FL and Memphis, TN

Wait, are you asking me or cyberdad? :LOL:

I heard the Radio Reloj "R" Morse code pips on probably three or four (maybe even five) frequencies every night, but I hear clear audio from them less often. Usually on 950 kHz if I remember correctly. Nothing during the day, but I am not on the coast like CD is.
 
tomservo said:
We had a power outage yesterday morning here in Foley and I heard WASG then. WHEP was still off the air so I was able to hear a few stations I don't normally hear because I'm so close to them. And I'm hearing gospel now, although it seems weaker than normal. Maybe they're running on low power?
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Thanks for the update. I did hear WHEB every time I checked 1310 with the thier usual Fair-good signal where I was next door to the Florabama. As for WASG, I still don't know what was going on with them. Maybe they were running reduced power. I still didn't hear them. But R. Enciclopedia on first adjacent 530 from Cuba was present with a weak signal during daytime and a fair signal at night.
 
schmave said:
I don't have much experience in Memphis, but the last time I was down there, in the fall of 2009 when I was moving home from Houston, I remember 740 being all KRMG. I never expected to hear KTRH, but thought I might hear CFZM. That said, I've read a lot of reports of KRMG being heard not far south of me in parts of Kentucky. In Columbus, CFZM is a blaster.
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I was able to snag KRMG one night for a bit in Tampa where it's usually a mix of KTRH and WYGM.

CFZM would sometimes pop through but I wouldn't call it a regular.
 
gar hi said:
I was able to snag KRMG one night for a bit in Tampa where it's usually a mix of KTRH and WYGM.

CFZM would sometimes pop through but I wouldn't call it a regular.
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Very similar to my experiences down there during those years during the middle of the last decade when I was spending some time during January in the Tampa bay area. KRMG and CFZM were each very tough on Treasure Island, but not always impossible.
 
boombox4 said:
. Did you hear Reloj?
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Sorry I missed your question a few weeks back, @tomservo already answered it, and I defer to him, given that he's a resident of the area, while I'm a visitor. Albeit a regular one.

But since my location is on the beach, while tomservo is about fifteen or so miles inland, there are a few differences. During daytime, I do usually hear a very faint R. Reloj on 950, and sometimes on 570. I'd be surprised if either makes it more than a mile or two inland during the day, and both are stronger at night. As tomservo said, you can hear Reloj on several frequencies at night. Most notably on 870 with WWL nulled. I say most notably because at the beach at the Alabama-Florida state line, WWL is the strongest AM signal 24/7, But even with that, nulling WWL at almost always is enough for Reloj to break through.
 
cyberdad said:
I knew it was off. I didn't know that it had been deleted. So much for having the best signal in town.
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Towers came down in a hurricane.. and wouldve been costly to rebuild.
 
tomservo said:
It also had a translator, didn't it? That alone should have made it worth rebuilding, even as a tiny little pea-shooter with a non-directional setup.
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Why rebuild the AM when you can shuffle t he translator off to an HD2/HD3, which I think they did.. it was/is a rock/active rock format.... so who was listening to that on AM?
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
Why rebuild the AM when you can shuffle t he translator off to an HD2/HD3, which I think they did.. it was/is a rock/active rock format.... so who was listening to that on AM?
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On top of that, the last time I heard the Panama City 590 (ex WDLP). which was more than two years ago, the audio was pretty lousy.
 
gr8oldies said:
Way on the other side of Tennessee (400 miles east of Memphis), it's mostly CFZM but often KRMG takes over. I don't remember ever getting KRMG in Ohio but it wouldn't be impossible with auroral conditions
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When I was a kid living in Tulsa, KRMG was my mom's favorite station, so on vacations I got to hear how far they get out. I remember listening to them heading west to the NM border during the day. Heading east, they were listenable past Little Rock. At night from the motel room, heading due east or west of Tulsa, KRMG was usually on top. West of Albuquerque, they lost the battle to KCBS. Going north or south (to Texas or to Colorado), they were heard weakly if at all.

KRMG's good signal was bad news for me from a music standpoint. I was waiting for KRMG to fade so I could find the local Top40 stations.
 
Your post reminds me of the annual childhood vacations my family took in the 60s via car in the western U.S. Once you got west of Omaha or Kansas City, the only reliable nighttime Top 40 signal was KOMA in Oklahoma City. During the day in the Denver area, KIMN was a great Top 40 station. During that era, Top 40 stations were few and far between. But at night, KOMA was a powerhouse.

Bob
 
DXBob said:
Your post reminds me of the annual childhood vacations my family took in the 60s via car in the western U.S. Once you got west of Omaha or Kansas City, the only reliable nighttime Top 40 signal was KOMA in Oklahoma City. During the day in the Denver area, KIMN was a great Top 40 station. During that era, Top 40 stations were few and far between. But at night, KOMA was a powerhouse.

Bob
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We used to do a big 2-3 week trip somewhere out west every summer. I got pretty familiar with the Top 40 stations in various areas, mostly Texas, NM. AZ CO, and WY. For example, driving into Colorado, I would check 950 on the car radio periodically, waiting for KIMN to become listenable. I had a shoebox full of music surveys I collected on those trips, but sadly, they were thrown out when my mom passed away.

In those days, the top 40 stations were a little different in every city, with some local hits mixed in with the big ones. Most larger towns had 2, with slightly different sounds.
 
wildthangjim said:
We used to do a big 2-3 week trip somewhere out west every summer. I got pretty familiar with the Top 40 stations in various areas, mostly Texas, NM. AZ CO, and WY. For example, driving into Colorado, I would check 950 on the car radio periodically, waiting for KIMN to become listenable. I had a shoebox full of music surveys I collected on those trips, but sadly, they were thrown out when my mom passed away.

In those days, the top 40 stations were a little different in every city, with some local hits mixed in with the big ones. Most larger towns had 2, with slightly different sounds.
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I did much the same thing. Great memories! There were (2) great Top 40 stations in Phoenix, KRIZ and KRUX. Unfortunately, they were on 1230 and 1360 kHz respectively. They barely covered the Phoenix metro at night.

Bob
 
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