1090 signal?

[Eli Polonsky]

I suppose it could be, but I fell asleep before the top of the hour ID. But why would they be on the air, ~6 hours after their mandated sign-off time?

There have been known instances of AM daytimers staying on at night either unintentionally due to failure of an automated switching system to turn off the transmitter at sunset, or intentionally but much less likely, hoping the FCC wouldn’t notice and they could get away with it.

 

[radiofan2023]

Have the surgery as soon as they'll approve it. I delayed mine for years, and a friend (who'd had it) kept telling me I was a moron to wait. I finally had it - and had to admit he was 100% right.

And if your vision starts getting cloudy again after the surgery, tell your eye doctor. That's called after cataract/secondary cataract and can be fixed with a laser in about 5 minutes, I had to have it done.

 

[CTListener]

There have been known instances of AM daytimers staying on at night either unintentionally due to failure of an automated switching system to turn off the transmitter at sunset, or intentionally but much less likely, hoping the FCC wouldn’t notice and they could get away with it.

That would be the notorious "Friday Night Lights" high school football exemption, which never really existed but which many small-town stations have exploited.

 

[AerieAlso]

I heard the Spanish-language station on 1110 kHz again last night, loud and clear in Andover until at least 11 PM. This time I stayed awake to hear the ID. It was WMVX in Salem NH.

Could they be testing use of the WNNW tower close to me, because I don't really get a good signal from WMVX in the daytime. They use 4-towers to send the signal to the northwest (they have to avoid the Providence station on 1110). Which means they don't deliver a particularly good signal to the Hispanic population in the Merrimack Valley.

 

[CTListener]

I heard the Spanish-language station on 1110 kHz again last night, loud and clear in Andover until at least 11 PM. This time I stayed awake to hear the ID. It was WMVX in Salem NH.

Could they be testing use of the WNNW tower close to me, because I don't really get a good signal from WMVX in the daytime. They use 4-towers to send the signal to the northwest (they have to avoid the Providence station on 1110). Which means they don't deliver a particularly good signal to the Hispanic population in the Merrimack Valley.

I hear WMVX here, just south of White River Junction, VT, too, especially around dusk. We're about 90 miles northwest of Salem, so the directional antenna array they use definitely favors us. Not many Hispanic residents up this way.