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What does your AM dial sound like? Daytime

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West Dennis, MA: 1 Mile from water, along RT. 28.

530: Nothing
540: Weak WBWD
550: WSJW
560: mix of WGAN and WHYN
570: weak WMCA
580: Nothing
590: WEZE
600: Depending if I'm at the beach, I'll get a very faint WICC. At my house, nothing.
610: Mix of WGIR and WTEL, with 'GIR winning out.
620: Very faint WZON. At the beach, it's WSNR (and even then, barely)
630: WPRO
640: Nothing.
650: Very faint WSRO
660: WFAN
670: Nothing.
680: WRKO
690: Nothing
700: Nothing
710: WOR
720: Nothing
730: WJTO
740: WJIB
750: Nothing
760: Weak WVNE
770: WABC
780: Nothing
790: WPRV
800: WNNW
810: Nothing
820: WNYC
830: WCRN
840: Nothing
850: WEEI
860: Nothing
870: WLVP
880: WCBS
890: WAMG
900: WCME
910: *might* be WTOS
920: WHJJ
930: WPKX
940: Nothing
950: WROL
960: Nothing
970: Battleground frequency
980: Weak WCAP
990: Nothing
1000: Nothing
1010: WINS
1020: Think it's WIBG
1030: WBZ
1040: Nothing
1050: WEPN
1060: WQOM
1070: Nothing
1080: Nothing
1090: Supposed to be WILD, but have heard WBAL.
1100: Nothing
1110: WPMZ
1120: WBNW
1130: WBBR
1140: Nothing
1150: WWDJ
1160: Nothing
1170: WFPB
1180: Nothing
1190: WLIB
1200: WXKS
1210: Nothing
1220: Nothing
1230: WESX
1240: WBAS
1250: Nothing
1260: WBIX
1270: WTSN
1280: Nothing
1290: Nothing
1300: Nothing
1310: WLOB
1320: WARA
1330: WRCA
1340: WNBH
1350: Nothing
1360: WLYN
1370: Nothing
1380: Nothing
1390: WPLM
1400: Ugly mix
1410: Nothing
1420: WBSM
1430: WKOX
1440: WRED
1450: Ugly mix
1460: Nothing
1470: Nothing
1480: WSAR
1490: Ugly mix
1500: Nothing
1510: Nothing
1520: Nothing
1530: WVBF
1540: Mix
1550: WNTN
1560: Nothing
1570: WUBG
1580: Nothing
1590: WARV
1600: WUNR
1610: Nothing
1620: Nothing
1630: Nothing
1640: Nothing
1650: Nothing
1660: Very weak WWRU
1670: Nothing
1680: Nothing
1690: Nothing
1700: Nothing
 
About the same. Might be a little better in the summer because I'm at the local beach. I just bought a smaller radio (Tecsun) that will be easier to take into the field. My Eton Grundig Edition is nice, but it can be bulky.
 
WMID AM 1230 and 1340 (with a new FM as well) Atlantic City, NJ.
 
WILD 1090 has been off lately. WBAL coming in especially late afternoon (here in Beverly MA)

Not picking up the revived WMEX 1510 Quincy that is now back on? (by day)
 
Thought I would share my daytime AM list from West Central Georgia if anyone is interested:

540: WDAK Columbus GA 4.0kW
560: WOOF Dothan AL 5.0kW
570: WAAX Gadsden AL 5.0kW
580: WACQ Tuskegee AL 0.5kW
590: WDWD Atlanta GA 12.0kW
620: WTRP La Grange GA 2.5kW
640: WGST Atlanta GA 50.0kW
650: WSM Nashville TN 50.0kW Skywave
680: WCNN Atlanta GA 50.0kW
690: WSPZ Birmingham AL 50.0kW
700: WCNF Dothan AL 1.6kW
720: WVCC Hogansville GA 7.97kW
750: WSB Atlanta GA 50.0kW
790: WQXI Atlanta GA 28.0kW
800: WMGY Montgomery AL 1.0kW
810: WCKA Jacksonville AL 50.0kW
820: WWBA Largo/Tampa FL 50.0kW Part of signal pathway over Gulf of Mexico
840: WHGH Thomasville GA 10.0kW
850: WXJC Birmingham AL 50.0kW
860: WAEC Atlanta GA 5.0kW
890: WJTP Atlanta GA 5.0kW
910: WZMG Pepperell/Auburn AL 0.65kW
920: WGKA Atlanta GA 14.0kW
940: WMAC Macon GA 50.0kW
950: WZKD Montgomery AL 1.0kW
960: WERC Birmingham AL 5.0kW
970: WTBF Troy AL 5.0kW
1010: WTZA Atlanta GA 50.0kW
1040: WPBS Conyers/Atlanta GA 50.0kW
1050: WMNZ Montezuma GA 0.25kW
1060: WKNG Tallapoosa GA 50.0kW
1070: WAPI Birmingham AL 50.0kW
1080: WFTD Marietta/Atlanta GA 50.0kW
1100: WWWE Hapeville/Atlanta GA 5.0kW
1160: WCFO East Point/Atlanta GA 50.0kW
1190: WAFS Atlanta GA 25.0kW
1210: WTXK Pike Road/Montgomery AL 10.0kW
1230: WAUD Auburn AL 1.0kW
1240: WLAG La Grange GA 1.0kW
1270: WBOJ Columbus GA 5.0kW
1310: WPCH West Point GA 1.0kW
1320: WHIE Griffin GA 5.0kW
1340: WOKS Columbus GA 1.0kW
1360: WLWE Roanoke AL 1.0kW
1380: WAOK Atlanta GA 25.0kW
1400: WANI Opelika AL 1.0kW
1420: WRCG Columbus GA 5.0kW
1440: WLWI Montgomery AL 5.0kW
1460: WHAL Phenix City AL/Columbus GA 4.0kW
1490: WRLA West Point GA 1.0kW
1520: WTLM Opelika AL 1.0kW
1530: WTTI Dalton GA 10.0kW
1550: WAZX Smyrna/Atlanta GA 50.0kW
1580: WIOL Columbus GA 2.1kW
1600: WAOS Austell/Atlanta GA 20.0kW
1670: WVVM Dry Branch/Macon GA 10.0kW

No sign of skywave from 1110 WBT Charlotte NC or 1510 WLAC Nashville TN today which are frequent winter daytime visitors
 
It was in a long-forgotten 1947 book called 'The Dodgers and Me' when I caught the expression I now cadge to describe the AM dial fare here in my NE Pennsylvania home.

The book was a (largely) ghost-written book about Leo Durocher's career as manager of the baseball Dodgers.

The BROOKLYN Dodgers. 1939 to 1947. The co-author was Ed Linn. It is a terrific read, sort of like those spinning newsreel front=page highlights you'd see on a movie screen. In the book, a sportswriter for a Brooklyn paper name of Tom Meany described the first experiment at having a home-plate umpire, batter and catcher wired for sound so the crowd could enjoy any such conversations over the Ebbet's Field speakers.
Meany described the first few attempts at this experiment as 'A thousand eggs, frying simultaneously' *.

That apt description certainly fits the daytime AM dial's sound here in NE PA. And I have a few good AM DX radios, too .... a Grundig SR 270 portable, two GE Superadio 2's, and some minor foot-warmer called a Hammarlund HQ-180. Two loops and a 70' longwire.

A thousand eggs frying. It's been this way for at least 5 years, in two different dwellings. Both my houses here in Frackville have been doubles/attached's. Everywhere here is a noisy hell.

So on a good day, off wall-current, I can get
WHP 580 Harrisburg
610 WIP Philly
WAEB 790 Allentown
WEEU 830 Reading
Local and semi-locals WPPA 1360 Pottsville and Oldies WLSH 1410 Lansford....
You get the idea, I guess.
In the car, away from the wall-current and other house racket, I can hear more. But unlike a lot of people, I don't enjoy freezing in the car for hours DXing in February.

* Writer Tom Meany's account of that day also stated that, by maybe halfway through the game (just as the ump and the batter were cursing out each other) that the sound system began working loud and clear! Some 20,000 people at Ebbet's Field plus a few hundred folks from nearby apartments began blushing upon hearing many 4-letter words .... all the old favourites plus some new hyphenated expressions, etc.

** 'Nice Guys Finish Last' by Durocher (his later book, from the early 70's) is an inferior read.
 
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Steve Green NEPA said:
It was in a long-forgotten 1947 book called 'The Dodgers and Me' when I caught the expression I now cadge to describe the AM dial fare here in my NE Pennsylvania home.

The book was a (largely) ghost-written book about Leo Durocher's career as manager of the baseball Dodgers.

The BROOKLYN Dodgers. 1939 to 1947. The co-author was Ed Linn. It is a terrific read, sort of like those spinning newsreel front=page highlights you'd see on a movie screen. In the book, a sportswriter for a Brooklyn paper name of Tom Meany described the first experiment at having a home-plate umpire, batter and catcher wired for sound so the crowd could enjoy any such conversations over the Ebbet's Field speakers.
Meany described the first few attempts at this experiment as 'A thousand eggs, frying simultaneously' *.

That apt description certainly fits the daytime AM dial's sound here in NE PA. And I have a few good AM DX radios, too .... a Grundig SR 270 portable, two GE Superadio 2's, and some minor foot-warmer called a Hammarlund HQ-180. Two loops and a 70' longwire.

A thousand eggs frying. It's been this way for at least 5 years, in two different dwellings. Both my houses here in Frackville have been doubles/attached's. Everywhere here is a noisy hell.

So on a good day, off wall-current, I can get
WHP 580 Harrisburg
610 WIP Philly
WAEB 790 Allentown
WEEU 830 Reading
Local and semi-locals WPPA 1360 Pottsville and Oldies WLSH 1410 Lansford....
You get the idea, I guess.
In the car, away from the wall-current and other house racket, I can hear more. But unlike a lot of people, I don't enjoy freezing in the car for hours DXing in February.

* Writer Tom Meany's account of that day also stated that, by maybe halfway through the game (just as the ump and the batter were cursing out each other) that the sound system began working loud and clear! Some 20,000 people at Ebbet's Field plus a few hundred folks from nearby apartments began blushing upon hearing many 4-letter words .... all the old favourites plus some new hyphenated expressions, etc.

** 'Nice Guys Finish Last' by Durocher (his later book, from the early 70's) is an inferior read.
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You don't receive KYW? Here, WABC's signal is horrible even though I'm practically on the water.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs, up to 1210):

540: WLIE Islip NY(weak to fair)
560: WFIL Philly
570: WMCA NYC(weak)
580: WHP Harrisburg(fair signal)
590: WARM Scranton PA(fair)
600: WCAO Baltimore(weak)
610: WTEL Philly(610 ESPN)
620: WSNR Newark NJ(very weak)
630: WEJL Scranton PA or WMAL Washington DC(both very weak)
640: WWJZ Mount Holly NJ(Relevant Radio, ex-Radio Disney)
660: WFAN NYC(fair to middle)
670: WLUI Lewistown PA(Big Lewie, very weak)
680: WCBM Baltimore(weak)
690: WPHE Phoenixville PA(semi-local, Spanish)
710: WOR NYC(iHeart talk station, pretty strong)
740: WVCH Chester PA
770: WABC NYC(middle)
790: WAEB Allentown(semi-local)
800: WTMR Camden NJ
820: WNYC NYC(weak)
830: WEEU Reading(semi-local)
860: WWDB Philly
880: WCBS NYC(middle)
900: WURD Philly
910: WSBA York PA(very weak)
920: WPHY Trenton NJ(920 ESPN)
930: WPAT Paterson NJ(very weak)
940: WADV Lebanon PA(weak)
950: WKDN Philly(Family Radio)
960: WHYL Carlisle PA or WTEM Salisbury MD
970: WWDJ Hackensack NJ(weak)
990: WNTP Philly(Salem's 990 the Answer)
1010: WINS NYC(weak, but listenable)
1020: WIBG Ocean City NJ(very weak)
1040: WCHR Flemington NJ(semi-local, religious)
1050: WEPN NYC(weak to middle)
1060: KYW Philly
1070: WKOK Sunbury PA or WKMB Stirling NJ(both very weak)
1080: WTIC Hartford CT(very weak)
1090: WBAL Baltimore(weak)
1100: WGPA Bethlehem(semi-local, Sunny 1100)
1110: WNAP Norristown PA(gospel)
1130: WBBR NYC(fair, Bloomberg, ex-WNEW)
1150: WDEL Wilmington DE(fair to middle)
1160: WOBM Lakewood NJ(weak)
1170: WBRW Somerset NJ(weak)
1180: WFYL Philly
1190: WLIB NYC or WANN Annapolis MD(both fair)
1210: WPHT Philly
 
kenglish said:
I wonder if that Hammarlund is the same model I saw in an antique shop a few weeks ago..
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I had the HQ-170, which was a very good performer on the amateur bands. It covered 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 and 6 meters. The 180 was a general coverage receiver (medium wave up to 30 mc., as the frequencies were expressed in then) with an identical look and, I assume, performance. It was more for shortwave broadcast enthusiasts. Never used the 170 as a foot warmer, but it did work on frosty fingers on nippy nights, and the aroma it generated is one I'd instantly recognize today if I were to come across another. I got the 170 in 1971 before getting my novice ticket, but sold it at consignment in the '80s when I moved up to solid state for my SWLing, which became my main interest after choosing not to go any further as a ham.
 
Good topic. Here where I am northwest of Chicago, the dial is pretty full. And we also cover this in full detail with our ongoing frequency of the week series. But, I also think having this in another format where we can have an at a glance version is a good idea that can be useful, so I'll offer a condensed version for my location....Freq. Calls, Signal strength

540: WAUK fair
560: WIND very good
580: WILL fair
590: WKZO very weak
600: WMT weak
620: WTMJ very good
640: WMFN good
670: WSCR monster
720: WGN monster
750: WNDZ fair-good
780: WBBM monster
820: WCPT good
(850: WAIT local that just went silent)
890: WLS good
930: WKDM fair-good
950: WNTD fair-weak
970: WHA weak
1000: WMVP good

(to be continued.....note that I've omitted several channels that are barely audible and/or present only on an occasional basis. Example: KTRS 550)
 
Quickly, from memory, Part 1
540-WRGC Sylva NC
550-WDUN GA
560-WMIK Middlesboro KY
570-WWNC Asheville
580-WYHM Rockwood TN
590-WVLK Lex KY
600-WCVP Murphy NC
620-WRJZ
640-WXSM Blountville TN
650 WSM (weak)
690 WZAP Bristol VA/TN
 
Near north Chicago suburbs:

540: WAUK fair/good
550: KTRS very weak on a good radio
560: WIND very good
580: WILL fair/good
590: WKZO weak
600: WMT weak
620: WTMJ very good
640: WMFN good
670: WSCR strong-local
700: WLW weak on a good radio
720: WGN strong-local
750: WNDZ very good
780: WBBM strong-local
820: WCPT Very good
870: WKAR weak
890: WLS very good
910: WGTO weak
930: WKBM fair-good
950: WNTD good
960: WSBT weak
970: WHA very weak
1000: WMVP strong-local
1020: WPEO very weak
1030: WNVR strong
1050: WLIP fair
1060: WHFB fair-good (used to be better)
1070: WTSO very weak
1080: WNWI good
1110: WMBI very good-local
1130: WISN good
1160: WYLL very strong-local
1180: WSQR very weak
1190: WOWO very weak on a good radio
1200: WRTO good
1220: WKRS fair
1240: WSBC good
1270: WWCA very weak
1300: WRDZ fair
1330: WKTA very strong-local
1370: WLTH weak
1390: WGRB fair-good
1430: WEEF very strong
1450: WRLL fair
1490: WPNA fair
1530: WCKG fair-good
1570: WBGX very weak
1590: WCGO very strong-local
1690: WVON fair-good
 
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I will try to do a daytime bandscan here in Laramie, WY... i have 2 local aMs and thats it.. every other AM is 40, 80, 120, 150 miles away.

I've never done a bandscan at say, straight up 12noon.
 
650 - KPRP Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

670 - KPUA Hilo - Fair to strong but still not local strength which surprises me because it's only 12 miles away and 10,000 Watts non directional

690 - KHNR Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

760 - KGU Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

830 - KHVH Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

850 - KHLO Hilo - Weak which surprises me being it's just 12 miles away and 5,000 Watts non directional

1060 - KIPA Hilo - Fair but still not local sounding which, again, is surprising at 12 miles away and 5,000 Watts non directional
 
hawaiigar said:
650 - KPRP Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

670 - KPUA Hilo - Fair to strong but still not local strength which surprises me because it's only 12 miles away and 10,000 Watts non directional

690 - KHNR Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

760 - KGU Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

830 - KHVH Honolulu - Barely audible mid day but often weak and listenable well into the morning

850 - KHLO Hilo - Weak which surprises me being it's just 12 miles away and 5,000 Watts non directional

1060 - KIPA Hilo - Fair but still not local sounding which, again, is surprising at 12 miles away and 5,000 Watts non directional
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What a difference a mountain makes! During my two days on the windward side of the mountain (near Captain Cook) as a teenager during the Christmas Holiday break 1964, ALL of the Honolulu AMs boomed in via saltwater path. Including KIKI, which was on 830 at the time with 250 watts. Further up the dial KPOI (5kw on 1380) sounded like a local on 1380 24/7 albeit with some minor convergence fading at night. Meanwhile not even a whiff from any of the Hilo AMs.
 
Knoxville TN Part 2:

700--extremely weak WLW
710--WEKC, Williamsburg KY
720--WGCR Pigeon Forest, NC
730-WLIL Lenoir City TN
740--WCXG Harrogate TN
750---very weak WSB, usually covered by WETR slop
760-WETR Knoxville
770---nothing
780--WWOL Forest City NC
790---WETB Johnson City NT
800---WDEH Sweetwater TN
 
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