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Call letters, and city, please

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?
 
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.

 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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