AM Frequency of The Week: 710

[drt]

Here in the downtown St. Pete area I cannot pick up 1520 out of Buffalo at all, party due to the fact that a 400 watt daytimer in suburban St. Pete often "forgets" to sign off at sunset. (the FCC fined them for this very same thing 2 or 3 years ago, but apparently the FCC is lax in this area.)

At my alternate listening post about 73 miles n.n.e. of here I can sometimes pick up KB albeit a very weak signal barely identifiable. (this is indoors) haven't tried on a car radio at night up there).  I would imagine that on the east coast of Florida, it should come in more frequently and stronger.


Of course, when I spent a week in Albany earlier this month, it boomed in there at night.

I did notice on the latest PPM ratings for Buffalo that several Toronto stations (AM and FM) had higher ratings that KB!

drt
st pete

[gar fla]

I always figured WWKB could never be heard down here because of the signal pattern so I never geve any real effort to hear it.

More recently, I had started listening and did hear them with an ID once when the St. Pete station had signed off. It was struggling with some station whose call lettters started with a "K" but I forget the exact call letters and didn't know where they were from.

[LibertyNT]

Could it have been 1520 KOMA? er KOKC Oklahoma City.

[vibe]

I'm a snowbird about 80 mi S of gar (Englewood FL).  Gotten KOMA w an ID a few times (weakly) but no KB Buffalo on 1520.  1 or 2X on WOR w/ ID  when NYC stations were unusually strong in Englewood. And that's in a 5+ yr span. 
Here in MA it's WOR w/ no other stations recd.

[radioman148]

I'm a snowbird about 80 mi S of gar (Englewood FL).  Gotten KOMA w an ID a few times (weakly) but no KB Buffalo on 1520.  1 or 2X on WOR w/ ID  when NYC stations were unusually strong in Englewood. And that's in a 5+ yr span. 
Here in MA it's WOR w/ no other stations recd.

Good job getting KOMA in Fla. They send most of their power in the other direction at night.
Last year as KOKC I heard them everynight I was in Hawaii. Over 3,000 miles.

[stormy01]

Good job getting KOMA in Fla. They send most of their power in the other direction at night.
Last year as KOKC I heard them every night I was in Hawaii. Over 3,000 miles.

More like 3,700+ miles!  http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm?d&pt_1=usokocit&pt_2=ushihono

[radioman148]

Good job getting KOMA in Fla. They send most of their power in the other direction at night.
Last year as KOKC I heard them every night I was in Hawaii. Over 3,000 miles.

More like 3,700+ miles!  http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm?d&pt_1=usokocit&pt_2=ushihono

Well I knew it was over 3,000. KOKC & KFAQ Tulsa can both be heard in Hawaii--at least as of last winter. In the case of KOKC fairly easily on a car radio just about every night.

[drt]

I think I may have received KB 1520 for the first time last night; the local 1520 managed to sign off only 42 minutes late last night (8:12pm vs the 7:30 sign off) when they went off the air, I rotated my antenna to get the best reception I could of a very faint talk station. (talk station on the AM band, that really narrows it down, doesn't it!)

At any rate it was English, but it was so weak and fading in and out, that I could not make a positive i.d., but when I rotated my AM antenna to the n.n.e./s.s.w. postition that is when it came it the best. (using the word "best" loosely!)

Buffalo is n.n.e. of here, so I'm thinking maybe I was receiving KB, this was from around 8:12 - 8:20, then it faded out completely.

drt

[Buckeyes2001]

From Vermilion, OH:
710 is blank during the day. Near sunset I start hearing WOR/New York and later mixed with Cuba. Much easier to DX since WLW shut off IBOC at night. I have heard KCMO/Kansas City around sunrise.

[boombox]

For me, it's KIRO, the great splatter master.     Although I did log KMPC, Los Angeles, a long time ago, probably when KIRO was off the air. 

Of course, KMPC is KSPN now......