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What does your AM band look like at night? Part 3 530-600

From Lexington, KY, These are the stations I usually can hear at night:

530 Turks and Caicos/Spanish Stations
540 WFLF Orlando (very weak) with others. Used to hear WDAK Columbus, GA here
550 WKRC Cincinnati, OH
560 WIND Chicago, IL mixing with WMIK Middlesboro, KY (both weak)
570 WWNC Ashville, NC over WKBN Youngstown, OH (weak), Radio Reloj Cuba
580 WCHS Charleston, WV (weak)
590 WVLK Lexington (Extremely Weak Here-I am in the deepest part of one of their nulls at night even though I am only about 6 or 7 miles from their transmitter site)
KXSP Omaha, NE and WKZO Kalamazoo, MI are also heard here at night
600 WMT Cedar Rapids, IA
 
I tried a couple of the Global Tuners nodes and got the following stations. This was about 9-10PM Eastern.

From Pennsylvania
530: CIAO Brampton, ON/Cuba/1 kHz het, Algeria?
540: jumble
550: jumble, WSAU Wausau, WI, WGR Buffalo, NY, others
560: jumble, mexican, WHBQ Memphis, WHYN Springfield
570: jumble, Radio Reloj, WTNT Bethesda, MD, WSYR Syracuse, others
580: jumble with WHP Harrisburg in first place
590: jumble
600: jumble with some Dave Ramsey outlet leading

Montreal, Quebec
530: CIAO Brampton, ON/1 kHz het
540: CBMM Senneterre, Quebec
550: mix of WGR Buffalo and other stations
560: CFOS Owen Sound, ON/mix
570: mix with WSYR Syracuse, NY mainly leading, Radio Reloj, French
580: jumble with WGAC Augusta, GA mainly leading
590: jumble with Gospel leading, maybe WLVA Lynchburg, VA
600: jumble

-crainbebo
 
I will go ahead and list daytime, nighttime, and sunrise/sunset skip:

First off, Nighttime-

530: Unsure but have occasionally heard some station coming through
540: Mix of KWMT Fort Dodge, IA and another station, perhaps CBK Watrous, SK
550: KTRS St. Louis, MO
560: WIND Chicago, IL
570: Unsure
580: WILL Urbana, IL, mixed in with other signals on 580 at night
590: WMT IBOC Hash
600: WMT Cedar Rapids, IA

Now, Sunrise/Sunset Skip-

530: Nothing
540: KWMT Fort Dodge, IA and another station, perhaps CBK Watrous, SK
550: KTRS St. Louis, MO
560: WIND Chicago, IL
570: Unsure; probably WNAX Yankton, SD (as long as WNAX is on daytime signal)
580: WILL Urbana, IL
590: WMT IBOC Hash
600: WMT Cedar Rapids, IA

And finally, Daytime-

530: Nothing
540: KWMT Fort Dodge, IA
550: KTRS St. Louis, MO
560: WIND Chicago, IL
570: WNAX Yankton, SD (very weak)
580: WILL Urbana, IL
590: WOW Omaha, NE?? Today, mixed in and/or covered up by WMT IBOC Hash
600: WMT Cedar Rapids, IA
 
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