Call letters, and city, please

[johnbasalla]

I'm in Southwestern Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, Ohio) area. I was listening to "The Dennis Prager Show", whose first hour airs from 10:05 p.m. until 11:00 p.m., Monday through Friday nights on AM1420 WHK. Interfering with the show was a station that was airing the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game. Who was it?

 

[KeithE4]

WCED DuBois PA is the only station on 1420 listed on the Pirates' website as part of their radio network. They're supposed to run 4200 watts days and 5 watts nights, both non-directional (Class D). Unless they were running daytime power at night, that's an excellent catch.

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WCED-AM 1420 kHz - Du Bois, PA

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[SomeRadioGuy]

I used to live up the road from WCED in Ridgway when I was at WDDH... its certainly possible there was a glitch in the remote control, when they ran 5 watts i never heard them in ridgway

 

[Weiserguy]

I used to live up the road from WCED in Ridgway when I was at WDDH... its certainly possible there was a glitch in the remote control, when they ran 5 watts i never heard them in ridgway

At 5 watts, how likely is it to hear the station in its own parking lot? Seems like any way you park would null out the signal.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

At 5 watts, how likely is it to hear the station in its own parking lot? Seems like any way you park would null out the signal.

A friend who used to live in Mississippi was near a station that ran 2 watts at night. He could be in the station parking lot and if the station was running an open/unmodulated carrier, which it did often... he could hear something else under it

 

[davideduardo]

At 5 watts, how likely is it to hear the station in its own parking lot? Seems like any way you park would null out the signal.

To do some interference testing, I attached the output of the 6146 oscillator / driver stage of one of my stations... over 50 years ago... and drove around a fairly large market. Of course, there was just an OC and no modulation but i could hear it over 40 km away. I was looking at the interference from a station, also on 570, in Bogotá and that served my purpose.

The 6146 will produce about 30 watts, enough to drive a pair of QB-4-1100's (4-400A if you are dumb enough to have used the Eimac version). With inductive coupling to the final of the rig, I guess I was putting out about 12 watts or less.

 

[Miss Tuned]

A friend who used to live in Mississippi was near a station that ran 2 watts at night. He could be in the station parking lot and if the station was running an open/unmodulated carrier, which it did often... he could hear something else under it

There are a few AMs in the UK, a diminishing number these days, which run 1 watt 24/7. Normally they're on-site radio services at colleges or hospitals, or on military bases. In the day the stations can be heard reasonably well across an area equivalent to a small town, but at night they may as well not be on the air at all.