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WIFI-AM 1460 up for sale
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The daytime signal is 5,000 watts but at night it drops to 500. No translator. The daytime signal is caught between Philadelphia's northern suburbs and Trenton. At night, it only covers Burlington NJ and Levittown PA.
RadioDX10 describes it as a "longtime heritage station" but he may be thinking of the original WIFI 92.5 FM Philadelphia. That station used the WIFI call letters from 1958 to 1983. It had be Philadelphia's dominant Top 40 FM station from 1973 to 1981.
This AM version of WIFI signed on the air in 1984, so I wouldn't call this one "heritage."
RadioDX10 describes it as a "longtime heritage station" but he may be thinking of the original WIFI 92.5 FM Philadelphia. That station used the WIFI call letters from 1958 to 1983. It had be Philadelphia's dominant Top 40 FM station from 1973 to 1981.
This AM version of WIFI signed on the air in 1984, so I wouldn't call this one "heritage."
You're right, I did mean the WIFI calls, but yeah that was on 92.5FM. This 1460 incarnation is virtually unknown to Philly residents.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WIFI&service=AM&h=D
That 1460 facility was one of the two toughest DX catches of NJ stations ever for me back in the JFK Airport days (WTTM 920 Trenton was the other).
The 1460 station was known as WJJZ at the time they signed on. They were a strict daytimer at 5000 watts, and broadcast with 4 sticks in a row on some marsh pit in the Delaware River.
We had a semi-local on 1460 by us -- WVOX New Rochelle. I got a weak 'Burlington County Times' mention in a moment of WVOX silence.
Oddly -- perhaps predictably -- I got them as WIFI a little after sunrise, here in St. Clair PA, 7 years ago on May 1st, off a barefoot GE SR II. Clear ID. No WVOX this time, hi ; only what I figured was that Rochester station. The WIFI reception also was with local WPAM 1450 *on the air*. I managed a wicked null on WPAM, and WIFI came through. SRS's and SSS's seem to allow you to do that nulling stuff a lot. WIFI might've been sports at the time.
$500,000, though?
To send a small lobe into Levittown PA and a large lobe into the Pine Barrens of NJ?
And to send an occasional sunrise-propogation nibble into St. Clair PA? Bon chance.
That 1460 facility was one of the two toughest DX catches of NJ stations ever for me back in the JFK Airport days (WTTM 920 Trenton was the other).
The 1460 station was known as WJJZ at the time they signed on. They were a strict daytimer at 5000 watts, and broadcast with 4 sticks in a row on some marsh pit in the Delaware River.
We had a semi-local on 1460 by us -- WVOX New Rochelle. I got a weak 'Burlington County Times' mention in a moment of WVOX silence.
Oddly -- perhaps predictably -- I got them as WIFI a little after sunrise, here in St. Clair PA, 7 years ago on May 1st, off a barefoot GE SR II. Clear ID. No WVOX this time, hi ; only what I figured was that Rochester station. The WIFI reception also was with local WPAM 1450 *on the air*. I managed a wicked null on WPAM, and WIFI came through. SRS's and SSS's seem to allow you to do that nulling stuff a lot. WIFI might've been sports at the time.
$500,000, though?
To send a small lobe into Levittown PA and a large lobe into the Pine Barrens of NJ?
And to send an occasional sunrise-propogation nibble into St. Clair PA? Bon chance.
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