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Tune across the AM band from your local sunset to your local sunrise you may be surprised at how well you can hear stations from hundreds and even thousands of miles away at night using an ordinary AM radio. My favorite considering price is the GE Super Radio III -- also available from Radio Shack under the Optimus name. GE Super Radio FAQ. Also the Radio Shack DX-398 or Sangean ATS 909 works well and includes FM and Short Wave Bands.
In North America, AM stations are spaced on channels at 10 kHz intervals (540, 550, 560, etc.). Most AM stations are located from 540 to 1600, with new stations on the air in the 1610 to 1700 kHz range. The best time for long distance AM band reception is during the fall and winter months, with the period around the equinoxes being particularly good. Stations located to the east of you will start fading in about an hour before your sunset, while stations to your west may remain audible up to an hour after your local sunrise.
The AM band is allocated into three categories: local, regional, and clear channel.
Local channels are usually at 1230, 1240, 1340, 1400, 1450, and 1490. Stations are limited to a maximum transmitter power of 1000 watts and use a non-directional antenna. These are very congested frequencies, with maximum reliable reception range at night usually restricted to less than 30 miles. (If you have no nearby stations on these frequencies, you will usually hear only a "rumble" at night on them.) However, reception at greater distances is possible with patience and good equipment
Stations on regional channels use higher transmitter powers, typically up to about 20,000 watts, and directional antennas. As you might expect from the term "regional," these stations are intended to serve specific geographic areas. Regional stations often use different power levels and directional antennas for day and night operation; since AM band signals travel further at night, regional stations will reduce transmitter power and use a "tighter" directional antenna between their local sunset and local sunrise.
Clear channel stations used to be "clear" but beginning in the early 1980s, additional stations were authorized to operate on clear channel frequencies at night, often with greatly reduced power and directional antennas Clear channel stations can use 50,000 watts of power and many use non-directional antennas. In the early days of radio, no other stations could operate on a clear channel station's frequency between sunset and sunrise. Clear channel stations could be heard over much of the country at night. While the "breaking up" of clear channels may have been economically necessary for daytime-only stations, it did result in many clear channel frequencies sounding much like regional channels at night. Now a days some of the big 50KW night stations have directional antennas and this results in a null in certain directions so as not to interfere with other biggies. Some AMs are non-directional daytime and go directional at night to protect other stations via skywave, but there are variations on this theme. Some stations even increase power at night!
For the FCC list of Local, Regional, and Clear Classifications and also lists Clear Channel Stations see URL: FCC AM CLASSIFICATIONS
To get complete information on a station
use the FCC AMQ AM Radio
Database Query.
Example: enter KFMB, AM Query (detailed output + CDBS
links). From the resulting data, note that KFMB daytime uses only one tower, so the
station is obviously non-directional in the daylight hours. At night, however, KFMB
uses three towers, so it is in the directional night mode.
N=Night, D=Day, U=Unlimted
1. Only stations running 50KW at night are listed.
2. There are lots of other night stations running less than 50KW.
3. Typically, stations listed as D&N have directional antennas at night.
4. Some of the stations listed as U, may have directional patterns at times.
See station details, FCC link for 2,
3 and 4 above.
For callsigns in blue
underlined - you can click to see their website.
Night
Time AM Radio Big 50KW Station Map
| FREQUENCY | CALLSIGN | LOCATION | POWER |
| 530 kHz |
-- |
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Travellers Info Stations |
| 540 kHz | WFLF | Orlando, FL50kW U | |
| 580 kHz | KMJ | Fresno, CA | 50KW U |
| 640 kHz | KFI | Los Angeles, CA | 50kW U |
| 650 kHz | WSM | Nashville, TN | 50kW U |
| 650 kHz | KENI | Anchorage, AK | 50kW U |
| 660 kHz | WFAN | New York, NY | 50kW U |
| 660 kHz | KTNN | Window Rock, AZ | 50kW U |
| 670 kHz | KBOI | Boise, ID | 50kW D&N |
| 670 kHz | WSCR | Chicago, IL | 50KW U |
| 680 kHz | KNBR | San Francisco, CA | 50kW U |
| 680 kHz | WRKO | Boston, MA | 50kW D&N |
| 680 kHz | WPTF | Raleigh, NC | 50kW D&N |
| 700 kHz | WLW | Cincinnati, OH | 50kW U |
| 710 kHz | WOR | New York, NY | 50kW U |
| 710 kHz | KIRO | Seattle, WA | 50kW U |
| 710 kHz | WAQI | Miami, FL | 50kW U |
| 720 kHz | WGN | Chicago, IL | 50kW U |
| 720 kHz | KDWN | Las Vegas, NV | 50kW D&N |
| 740 kHz | KCBS | San Francisco, CA | 50kW D&N |
| 740 kHz | KTRH | Houston, TX | 50kW D&N |
| 740 kHz | WQTM | Orlando, FL | 50KW D&N |
| 750 kHz | WSB | Atlanta, GA | 50kW D&N |
| 750 kHz | KFQD | Anchorage, AK | 50kW D&N |
| 760 kHz | WJR | Detroit, MI | 50kW U |
| 760 kHz | KFMB | San Diego, CA | 50kW N |
| 770 kHz | WABC | New York, NY | 50kW D&N |
| 770 kHz | KKOB | Albuquerque, NM | 50kW D&N |
| 780 kHz | WBBM | Chicago, IL | 50kW D&N |
| 780 kHz | KKOH | Reno, NV | 50kW D&N |
| 810 kHz | WGY | Schenectady, NY | 50kW U |
| 810 kHz | WKVM | Puerto Rico | 50KW U |
| 810 kHz | KGO | San Francisco, CA | 50kW U |
| 820 kHz | WBAP | Ft Worth-Dallas, TX | 50kW U |
| 830 kHz | WCCO | Minneapolis, MN | 50kW U |
| 840 kHz | WHAS | Louisville, KY | 50kW U |
| 850 kHz | KOA | Denver, CO | 50kW U |
| 850 kHz | WEEI | Boston, MA | 50kW D&N |
| 870 khz | WWL | New Orleans, LA | 50kW U |
| 870 khz | KAIM | Honolulu, HI | 50kW U |
| 880 kHz | WCBS | New York, NY | 50kW U |
| 880 kHz | KRVN | Lexington, NE | 50kW U |
| 890 kHz | WLS | Chicago, IL | 50kW D&N |
| 940 kHz | KWRU | Fresno, CA | 50KW D&N |
| 950 kHz | KJR | Seattle, WA | 50KW D&N |
| 950 kHz | WWJ | Detroit, MI | 50KW D&N |
| 1000 kHz | WMVP | Chicago, IL | 50kW D&N |
| 1000 kHz | KOMO | Seattle, WA | 50kW D&N |
| 1010 kHz | WINS | New York, NY | 50kW D&N |
| 1020 kHz | KDKA | Pittsburgh, PA | 50kW U |
| 1020 kHz | KCKN | Roswell, NM | 50kW D&N |
| 1020 kHz | KTNQ | Los Angeles, CA | 50kW D&N |
| 1030 kHz | WBZ | Boston, MA | 50kW U |
| 1030 kHz | KTWO | Casper, WY | 50kW D&N |
| 1040 kHz | WHO | Des Moines, IA | 50kW U |
| 1050 kHz | WEVD | New York, NY | 50kW U |
| 1060 kHz | KYW | Philadelphia, PA | 50kW U |
| 1070 kHz | KNX | Los Angeles, CA | 50kW U |
| 1080 kHz | WTIC | Hartford, CT | 50kW D&N |
| 1080 kHz | KRLD | Dallas, TX | 50kW D&N |
| 1090 kHz | WBAL | Baltimore | 50kW D&N |
| 1090 kHz | KAAY | Little Rock, AR | 50kW D&N |
| 1090 kHz | KYCW | Seattle, WA | 50kW D&N |
| 1100 kHz | WTAM | Cleveland, OH | 50kW U |
| 1100 kHz | KFAX | San Francisco, CA | 50kW U |
| 1110 kHz | WBT | Charlotte, NC | 50kW D&N |
| 1110 kHz | KFAB | Omaha, NE | 50kW D&N |
| 1120 kHz | KMOX | Saint Louis, MO | 50kW U |
| 1120 kHz | KPNW | Eugene, OR | 50kW U |
| 1130 kHz | WBBR | New York, NY | 50kW D&N |
| 1130 kHz | KWKH | Shreveport, LA | 50kW D&N |
| 1140 kHz | WRVA | Richmond, VA | 50kW U |
| 1140 kHz | KHTK | Sacramento, CA | 50kW N |
| 1150kHz | KXTA | Burbank, CA | 50KW-D, 44KW-N |
| 1160 kHz | KSL | Salt Lake City, UT | 50kW U |
| 1170 kHz | KFAQ | Tulsa, OK | 50KW D&N |
| 1170 kHz | WWVA | Wheeling, WV | 50KW D&N |
| 1180 kHz | WHAM | Rochester, NY | 50kW U |
| 1190 kHz | KEX | Portland, OR | 50 KW D&N |
| 1200 kHz | WOAI | San Antonio, TX | 50KW U |
| 1210 kHz | WPHT | Philadelphia. PA | 50KW U |
| 1220 kHz | WHK | Cleveland, OH | 50KW U |
| 1500 kHz | KSTP | St Paul-Minneapolis | 50KW D&N |
| 1500 kHz | WTOP | Washington, DC | 50KW D&N |
| 1510 kHz | KGA | Spokane, WA | 50KW D&N |
| 1510 kHz | WLAC | Nashville, TN | 50KW D&N |
| 1510 kHz | WWZN | Boston. MA | 50KW D&N |
| 1520 kHz | KOMA | Oklahoma City, OK | 50KW D&N |
| 1520 kHz | WWKB | Buffalo, NY | 50KW U |
| 1530 kHz | KFBK | Sacramento, CA | 50KW D&N |
| 1530 kHz | WSAI | Cincinnati, OH | 50KW D&N |
| 1540 kHz | KXEL | Waterloo, IA | 50KW D&N |
| 1540 kHz | WPTR | Albany, NY | 50KW U |
| 1560 kHz | WQEW | New York, NY | 50KW D&N |
| 1580 kHz | KMIK | Phoenix, AZ50KW D&N | |
| 540 kHz | XEWA | SAN LUIS POTOSI S.L.P. | 150KW |
|
630 kHz |
XEFB |
MONTERREY |
50KW D&N Dir |
|
690 kHz |
XETRA |
TIJUANA |
77KW-D, 50KW-N Dir |
| 690 kHz | XEN | MEXICO CITY | 100KW |
|
730 kHz |
XEX |
CD. DE MEXICO |
100KW D&N Omni |
| 760 kHz | XEABC | CD. DE MEXICO | 75KW |
|
800 kHz |
XEROK |
CD. JUAREZ |
50KW D&N Omni |
| 830 kz | XELA | CIUDAD MEXICO | 100KW |
| 860 kHz | XEUN | CD. DE MEXICO | 50KW DA-N |
|
900 kHz |
XEW |
CD. DE MEXICO |
250KW D&N Omni |
|
940 kHz |
XEQ |
CD. DE MEXICO |
50KW D&N Omni |
|
970 kHz |
XERFR |
CD. DE MEXICO |
50KW D&N Omni |
|
990 kHz |
XET |
MONTERREY |
50KW D&N Dir |
| 1000 kHz | XEOY | MEXICO CITY | 50KW |
|
1050 kHz |
XEG |
GUADALUPE |
150KW D&N Omni |
|
1090 kHz |
XEPRS |
TIJUANA |
50KW D&N Dir |
|
1110 kHz |
XERED |
CD. DE MEXICO |
50KW D&N Dir |
|
1140 kHz |
XEMR |
MONTERREY |
50KW D&N Dir |
|
1220 kHz |
XEB |
CD. DE MEXICO |
100KW D&N Omni |
| 1500 kHz | XEDF | MEXICO CITY | 50KW |
|
1570 kHz |
XERF |
CD. ACUÑA |
10KW ? D&N Omni |
|
1580 kHz |
XEDM |
HERMOSILLO |
50KW D&N Omni |
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