1340 signal

[StemCell]

I was in the parking lot of the Concord mall today in Delaware, tried WHAT, the signal was great, loud and clear like a local, of course this was daytime. I would say that is 20 some miles from the xmtr, not a bad daytime catch, do they really get out in a 20-30 mile radius during the day. I do think if they had this signal at night they would be a contender.

 

[WTUX]

I can hear them all the way to the Rt 273 exit off I-95. Not a great signal, but listenable.

 

[CHJ1950]

Does this station have a website, or a live web stream?

 

[DToTheJ]

Website:
http://www.martiniloungeradio.com/

Webstream:
http://webclust1.liquidcompass.cc/sos4stnrd/audio_player.php?id=WHATAM

 

[DG02816]

WHAT seems to go better to the south than they doto the north, and this is in spite of WMID...Easily heard from Brookhaven going up the Blue Route.

 

[rtetro]

It's not unusual for a station on one of the graveyard channels (1230, 1240, 1340, 1400, 1450, & 1490) to have a 0.5 mV/m contour at about 20-25 miles, particularly on the lower frequencies. WHAT seems to get out very well in some directions. I get them in Lansdale very cleanly, and can normally carry them out to Potstown on Rt. 422. Pretty good considering that at that point you are much closer to 1340 in Reading than to WHAT.

 

[Rockin Rob]

Rene,agreed! WHAT is more of a flamethrower than most people think. In fact, I can get them until WRAW finally starts to beat them up around Exeter Township on 422.

 

[qtpieislit]

Rene,
Does WHAT's seemingly improved signal have anything to do with their new self-supporter on Conshohocken ave? I still don't know how they installed the ground system, since the tower is practically up against the transmitter building (the original WHAT/WWDB studios). The tower used to be in the back but they moved it, and for the life of me, I can figure out how they would get the radials under the building? Have you seen it? I sure would like to see what vintage equipment is left in that building, but there are no doors. The building seems to be hermetically sealed. It’s the strangest thing I’ve seen.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Rene,
Does WHAT's seemingly improved signal have anything to do with their new self-supporter on Conshohocken ave?

From what you say, the new tower is on the same parcel of land as the old one was. If the distance between the old and new tower locations is not very great--say, 50' or less, the new tower may be connected to the old radials! I have seen this done (admittedly at only one station, but it was a Class C AM--in central New York). There was a fat ground strap that ran from the base of the new tower to the the base of the one it replaced, where it was bonded to the old radials. Unconventional? You bet! Did it work? Yeah. Would that make it a precedent? Probably.