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1190/WOWO STRONG last evening with Ft. Wayne Komets Hockey
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Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:1190/WOWO very strong last evening here in Massachusetts. Haven't heard WOWO/1190 ever since the powerdown back in '97. Oh, do I miss WOWO. But, Komets Hockey was very strong last evening. For 9800 watts, it seemed very strong.Good to know, they are still there.
So you are saying, what? It was strong?
dyeingeye said:Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:1190/WOWO very strong last evening here in Massachusetts. Haven't heard WOWO/1190 ever since the powerdown back in '97. Oh, do I miss WOWO. But, Komets Hockey was very strong last evening. For 9800 watts, it seemed very strong.
So you are saying, what? It was strong?
It seemed rather unusual last evening. Before WLIB in New York took over the frequency in '97, WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana was a regular every night here in the Boston area for years. It had regular listeners all over the East coast. It used to be a full Clear Channel 50,000 watter until it was bought by Inner City (WLIB) and powered down to 9800 watts. It just seemed unusual to hear them after so many years last evening. Then again, this is the dead of winter and some real strong skips have been occurring here. A couple of weeks ago, KMOX from St. Louis was coming in clear as a bell. The next night, GONE....
Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:
WOWO still has 50,000 watts ND in the daytime. Maybe they didn't power down last night.
On a related note, for the past couple of weeks, WCRW Leesburg VA (ex-WAGE 1.200) has been booming in at sunset, right before sign-off, airing China Radio (a few seconds ahead of 1.090 WILD’s feed).
Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:1190/WOWO very strong last evening here in Massachusetts. Haven't heard WOWO/1190 ever since the powerdown back in '97. Oh, do I miss WOWO. But, Komets Hockey was very strong last evening. For 9800 watts, it seemed very strong.
I've heard it quite a few times in recent years, and it's always this time of the year.
WOWO's still in there at night in Connecticut, too, especially in the winter. Not a rare catch at all here.
They wanted to ensure enough nails in the coffin to prevent WOWO's night signal ever coming back. So they go to 30KW and push WOWO down to 9.8KW below the minimum threshold for them to keep their skywave protection. In a way that may have backfired - if they had allowed WOWO to keep 10kw that might have eliminated other 1190's from expanding night service increasing the noise level on the channel. Of course with 30KW WLIB probably doesn't have too much problem with that especially in the NY metro.
I still see this as one of the more disgusting moves by the FCC and it underscored that money and politics trump any public interest or even just making sound technical decisions.
As it turned out, WOWO's current owners made it another sat repeater anyway so I suppose there isn't much difference between not being able to listen and no longer wanting to listen.
I still see this as one of the more disgusting moves by the FCC and it underscored that money and politics trump any public interest or even just making sound technical decisions.
As it turned out, WOWO's current owners made it another sat repeater anyway so I suppose there isn't much difference between not being able to listen and no longer wanting to listen.
WLIB NYC has been operating at a lower transmitting power since Storm Sandy swept through. I'm not sure of the exact damage their facilities may have undergone, but they were off-air for awhile before coming back (at first intermittently) at the lower rate since late October.
Upshot is that this may be an additional reason why WOWO seems a bit stronger.
Upshot is that this may be an additional reason why WOWO seems a bit stronger.
pjc1961 said:
Absolutely!
They usually blast in, up here on the North Shore, but since The Super Storm I’ve only caught them a few times (if that), real weak——the first time I heard WCRW I thought it was 'LIB!
As for WOWO, yup, they were in last night, with full daytime power.
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