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News radio kgam drops coast to coast switches to red eye radio.

What do you mean by "KGAM"? Didn't they just turn in their license? Perhaps you did mean WGAN
 
Is WGAN the best AM signal in Maine? Certainly in Southern Maine. 5,000 watts around the clock, low on the dial, directional. There's an 870 in Gorham-Portland with 10,000 watts days. But it drops to 1,000 watts at night.

Bangor has 620 WZON, also 5,000 watts around the clock. Non-directional by day, directional at night.

But Maine's most powerful AM station is in Presque Isle. Catholic WEGP 1390. 25,000 watts days non-directional, 10,000 nights directional. But it's in sparsely populated Northern Maine and high up the dial. I picked it up once at night in New Hampshire and once in Nova Scotia..
 
Gregg. said:
Is WGAN the best AM signal in Maine? Certainly in Southern Maine. 5,000 watts around the clock, low on the dial, directional. There's an 870 in Gorham-Portland with 10,000 watts days. But it drops to 1,000 watts at night.

Bangor has 620 WZON, also 5,000 watts around the clock. Non-directional by day, directional at night.

But Maine's most powerful AM station is in Presque Isle. Catholic WEGP 1390. 25,000 watts days non-directional, 10,000 nights directional. But it's in sparsely populated Northern Maine and high up the dial. I picked it up once at night in New Hampshire and once in Nova Scotia..
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Seeming as how the question was about the best signal and not the most powerful, I would say that WEGP is out of the running.
 
Just from listening over the years,I'd say 970 am has the best signal.Back in the day I used to listen to Don & Mike on WZAN,almost FM quality in it's primary coverage area.
 
Fred Ziffel said:
Just from listening over the years,I'd say 970 am has the best signal.Back in the day I used to listen to Don & Mike on WZAN,almost FM quality in it's primary coverage area.
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Funny, before Don and Mike went live in Portland we were listening in the tech center thinking this show was crazy funny. I'll never forget the item number of the sheet protectors Don liked, the PV119's.....I still request them! I agree, the daytime 970 signal is a little better with it being omni-directional and the center of the AM band, additionally the frequency is less impacted by other radiation sources causing "birdies" in the audio.
 
Speak of the devil...
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First Listen: Don Geronimo on Big 100 - RadioInsight

I first heard Don Geronimo on Washington, D.C., radio in summer 1980, doing nights on WPGC, then in the middle of a Top 40 battle with WRQX (Q107). In the intervening years, Geronimo and co-host Mike O’Meara would become Top 40 WAVA’s morning superstars, later moving to afternoons at all-sports...
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