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lots of FM/TV DX, where's the AM?

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pianoplayer88key

Yes, I know that it's easier to get AM stations over a distance of several hundred miles at night than it is to get FM, but... I'd like to hear about the "unusual" cases...

for example...

in San Diego, CA, I have heard (at night):
830 WCCO (normally dominated by KPLS)
870 WWL (normally dominated by KRLA)
780 WBBM (normally dominated by KFMB (i'm close to their TX) and KKOH)
720 WGN (KDWN was off the air)

in Redlands (2 hours north of San Diego) I heard 1040 WHO (which in San Diego has KURS on the co-channel.)

In the daytime, I have heard:
810 KGO, 680 KNBR, 1530 KFBK, 1580 KMIK (normally dominated by KBLA), and the LAX Airport TIS on 530.

Last night, I had my Select-A-Tenna's null pointed toward KCBS, and was trying to identify a station on 740. It was in english as far as I could tell, but I couldn't get an ID. Any ideas, anyone?

Also on graveyards I've heard 1240 Radio Disney from Albuquerque (local 1240 was on, but no audio - carrier only), 1400 (if I remember correctly) nostalgia from Tuscon, 1450 from Porterville.

What are your AM DX reports that are not your normal DX?
 
> Yes, I know that it's easier to get AM stations over a
> distance of several hundred miles at night than it is to get
> FM, but... I'd like to hear about the "unusual" cases...
>
> for example...
>
> in San Diego, CA, I have heard (at night):
> 830 WCCO (normally dominated by KPLS)
> 870 WWL (normally dominated by KRLA)
> 780 WBBM (normally dominated by KFMB (i'm close to their TX)
> and KKOH)
> 720 WGN (KDWN was off the air)
>
> in Redlands (2 hours north of San Diego) I heard 1040 WHO
> (which in San Diego has KURS on the co-channel.)
>
> In the daytime, I have heard:
> 810 KGO, 680 KNBR, 1530 KFBK, 1580 KMIK (normally dominated
> by KBLA), and the LAX Airport TIS on 530.
>
> Last night, I had my Select-A-Tenna's null pointed toward
> KCBS, and was trying to identify a station on 740. It was
> in english as far as I could tell, but I couldn't get an ID.
> Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Also on graveyards I've heard 1240 Radio Disney from
> Albuquerque (local 1240 was on, but no audio - carrier
> only), 1400 (if I remember correctly) nostalgia from Tuscon,
> 1450 from Porterville.
>
> What are your AM DX reports that are not your normal DX?
>

Cuba 1090
Mexico 1060
Columbia 760
Vancover, BC 1130 (with the local 1130 off for maintenance)

From Wisconsin
 
> Last night, I had my Select-A-Tenna's null pointed toward
> KCBS, and was trying to identify a station on 740. It was
> in english as far as I could tell, but I couldn't get an ID.
> Any ideas, anyone?

Well as you may know from different threads on this site, 740 is one screwed-up frequency. Stations jammed to the max, not shoehorned as bad as 1070 but certainly tight nonetheless. From California, there are a few possibilities ... KTRH from Houston, KRMG from Tulsa and maybe, depending on how good a radio you have, the 740 from Texarkana. Maybe the 740 from Toronto got there but I doubt it. Houston has a dramatic south-oriented directional pattern to suppress from skywave from Tulsa and Canada, while Houston, Tulsa and Texarkana protect one another at all hours if I recall correctly. Houston does throw a good lobe west, though, probably enough to get to California.
Someone from that part of the country (I'm in Ohio) may be able to fill in extra info on 740s out in your direction.
 
> > Last night, I had my Select-A-Tenna's null pointed toward
> > KCBS, and was trying to identify a station on 740. It was
>
> > in english as far as I could tell, but I couldn't get an
> ID.
> > Any ideas, anyone?
>
> ... and maybe, depending on how good a radio you have, the
> 740 from Texarkana. Maybe the 740 from Toronto got there
> but I doubt it.

I was using a Panasonic Shockwave RQ-SW20. With this radio and the select-a-tenna, I have heard, from El Cajon, CA, 530 LAX Airport TIS, 810 KGO San Francisco, 680 KNBR San Francisco, 1530 KFBK Sacramento, 1570 KPRO Riverside (it's only 18 watts ERP over a mountain range) and 1580 KMIK Tempe in the daytime, and 720 WGN Chicago (KDWN Las Vegas was off the air), 780 WBBM Chicago, 830 WCCO Minneapolis, 870 WWL New Orleans, and 1500 KSTP St Paul, at night.
 
>
> Cuba 1090
> Mexico 1060
> Columbia 760
> Vancover, BC 1130 (with the local 1130 off for maintenance)
>
> From Wisconsin
>

How powerful is that Cuban on 1090? I'm well within XEPRS Rosarito's groundwave service area, but when I null the local 1090 at night I often can hear a faint spanish language station on 1090. Any chance that it might be the Cuban, or is it one from Mexico?
 
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