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WTVN Back To 5 kW DA-N?

S

Schroedingers Cat

I just returned from the Straits Area and WTVN was booming in up there at Night. I suspect that they have returned to 5 kW DA-N. Anyone else notice anything?
 
I can say with near 100 percent certainty that they haven't, for two reasons.
* I live about 12 miles ENE of their towers and in one of the nastiest nulls of their usual nighttime pattern. They're booming in right now on every AM radio I have, which has been the case for the past 14 months with this 1,250-watt ND pattern. If they were back on the usual pattern, their signal would be total garbage here at night to the point of almost being unlistenable.
It's also coming in quite well on one of the Dayton SDR's, which it shouldn't with the 5K directional (and not coming in at all on the Lima and Cleveland-area receivers).
* Drove by the towers twice earlier today on my way in and out of town and that sixth tower in the array, the one that was damaged last year, has not been replaced.
 
Apparently, they were forced to reapply for zoning to replace the sixth tower that collapsed, as if it had never been built in the first place. Even at the same location and the same height, they were delayed, and it even wasn't even a done deal that it would be approved.
 
Given my situation with 610's night signal, they can stay on this pattern as long as they want! I do have an HD radio so I can hear it carried on a local FM signal, but it's been nice having our biggest AM signal serve the market as it should 24/7 for this long. Last I saw, the STA is until November. Wondering if that will be long enough?
 
That SDR in Dayton is deaf. Could barely get WTVN by day. A better test is Edinburgh, IN as it's in the usual null to Kansas City


schmave said:
I can say with near 100 percent certainty that they haven't, for two reasons.
* I live about 12 miles ENE of their towers and in one of the nastiest nulls of their usual nighttime pattern. They're booming in right now on every AM radio I have, which has been the case for the past 14 months with this 1,250-watt ND pattern. If they were back on the usual pattern, their signal would be total garbage here at night to the point of almost being unlistenable.
It's also coming in quite well on one of the Dayton SDR's, which it shouldn't with the 5K directional (and not coming in at all on the Lima and Cleveland-area receivers).
* Drove by the towers twice earlier today on my way in and out of town and that sixth tower in the array, the one that was damaged last year, has not been replaced.
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There's a second one in Dayton now (at least it shows up sometimes) that has far superior reception to the one you mention and about which I thought the exact same thing when it showed up.
The second one to which I'm referring appears to be in the Beavercreek area. Here's the link: http://nippynet.com:8073/
 
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