Reception of Kansas City 6-7-& 810 Stations

[dxnemo78]

I'm located about 200-225 mi. ENE of KC, and of course 50KW WHB (formerly KCMO) comes in the best. 710 and 610 are pretty similar in strength. I listen to The Savage Nation while driving home from work (Savage may be pretty "out there", but he's always entertaining ;D). Local 1070 KHMO has started pre-empting him for the Cardinals games. Yesterday, I finally located Savage on 710 KCMO, but the 10KW signal on the car radio is p*ss-weak at best, almost weaker than KSCP's 5KW signal at 610.

All this just makes me long for the good ol' days. 61 Country had some listenership here, and Music 81 KCMO, I can still here that jingle in my head 30 yrs. hence. To refresh my memory, why did KCMO and WHB swap frequencies??

 

[mimo]

I used to live about an hour and a half or so north of you in south east Iowa. All three were moderate signals at best. Somewhat better than what you experience, but 610 was slightly crackled over by WMT Cedar Rapids, 710 had to fight with WGN Chicago slightly crackling over it and 810 had KXIC Iowa City crackling over it. At home you could null out the interference, but in the car it wasn't so easy.

 

[vibe]

FWIW: I visited the beautiful state of Kansas two years ago and 810 KC was listenable all the way to Garden City. Got to be approx 300 mi from KC which was a KA place.

 

[Lawppy]

From Coldwater, MI:

610- Very rarely comes in under WTVN (Columbus) and WIP (Philadelphia) at night. Slightly more common on cold winter mornings.

710- I think I may have heard this one time. 710 is mostly dominated by WOR and WGN IBOC

810- Never at night, but always dependable shortly after their local sunrise in the winter months.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Plano, TX

610 - never
710 - fairly dependable at night, I need to null other stations usually
810 - once in a while, I get crosstalk from local WBAP.

 

[schmave]

From Coldwater, MI:

610- Very rarely comes in under WTVN (Columbus) and WIP (Philadelphia) at night. Slightly more common on cold winter mornings.

710- I think I may have heard this one time. 710 is mostly dominated by WOR and WGN IBOC

810- Never at night, but always dependable shortly after their local sunrise in the winter months.

I've heard Kansas City's 610 dominate the frequency in Dayton and Cincinnati after nightfall, when WTVN's extremely effective nighttime pattern kicks in.

 

[dxnemo78]

It's probably WGN's IBOC contributing to making KCMO fuzzy here, but even back when 710 was still WHB it was never as clear here (Northeast MO) as 610 and of course 810.

Back in the day, KCMO was Missouri's premier AM, along with KMOX. Great programing and a kick-as* signal. That's what I remember anyway :

 

[kc0ltv]

From a little bit outside Duluth:

610: Never heard anything else than local KDAL, Duluth, MN.

710: I've been able to phase out local WDSM and hear it.

810: Mix of WGY and WHB.

 

[gr8oldies]

"61 Country" (whatever its doing now) as the previous poster said was often very clear in the Dayton/ Cincy area and pretty much anywhere east. WTVN is practically non-existant to the west. I may have pulled in 710 once last winter (not sure how it made it past WLW's hash). I don't recall ever hearing 810. When I lived in Quincy IL and worked in Hannibal in 1985-86, I listened to then WHB-710s oldies format (with "the Breakfast Flakes) daytimes with a reasonable signal (they were gone at night) and got some of my pre-Limbaugh era talk from KCMO then on 810, also not a bad signal but nowhere to be found at night. I remember an afternoon host who went to KMOX at that time. From Quincy I could get KBEQ on FM fairly often

 

[PhilJSmith67]

From 35 miles south of Chicago...

610 - Used to get WDAF every night until the early 90s; now it's hit or miss, but I still hear it once in a while

710 - Never logged KCMO here, always get either WOR through the local WGN IBOC hash, or just WGN IBOC hash alone

810 - Never had anything but WGY Schenectady on 810; of course that's kind a mess now with 810, 820, 830, 840 and 850 all running IBOC!