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1540 Albany?

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Wimmmex

I used to be able to pick up WPTR 1540AM from Albany like a local at night here in Boston and at the time in New Hampshire.

I know the station has changed hands a few time...and gone through a dark period. However, since they went back on the air, they don't seem to come in skywave as well anymore.

Did they do something to their transmitter site over the years? Are they at full 50KW?

Any idea why they are harder to pick up these days (for the last year actually)

Thanks!


(I put CKLW in the same class as once great DX stations for me...but not any longer.)
 
Perhaps the current (religious) owners of WDCD/WPTR might not see fit to crank out the modulation and processing, Wimm?

And both back in 'the day', in the DXing Sixties near JFK Airport, one station protected by WPTR was ZNS. Yet, back then and even up to a few years ago with me DXing in Florida, ZNS was hardly the audio powerhouse its proximity would mandate it ought to be. It's as though their audio purposely has been kept low for decades.

Albany 1540 might be keeping their programming at a suitably solemn pitch? Or perhaps they're running the minimum electricity through those nighttime towers nowadays?
Ground system?

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Btw: Thanks you, Frank, for the heads-up on logging in. You folks get raised on the monitor quite well now. I'd been using the wrong sign-in name; there were FOUR of them that came up for selection after I'd hit the letter 's'.
 
There were stations that were perrenial catches at night years ago...that now no longer have the skywave coverage they once did.

Like I said: CKLW seems to have much reduced skywave coverage. WPTR 1540AM...is another. WGAR 1220. WWWE 1100AM is another.

Has the band crowded? Noisier? Have the facilities been downgraded (or degraded?)
 
I believe I read that they are temporarily operating non-directional with reduced power of 5 KW. Lightening strike in August.
 
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