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1610 AM Lansdale ?

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Just last night we were on the phunge with a buddy of ours down in Lansdale, who enjoys this station, '1610, in Lansdale'.
Disreputable audio quality, she says. But she insists that they play old time radio shows plus quirky and interesting music.

Radio-Dislocator lists nothing licensed between 1570 Doylestown and 1660 Trenton. so I figure this is some Part-15 station; an LPAM.

Is there anyone here from that area who knows?
Or might there be some sort of general list of LPAM stations in existence?

* * * * * * *

Now this listener is the same gal who once got a great laugh by posting somewhere about receiving WKBW and its '50,000 kilowatts'. She is not that reception-savvy although she is a more-than-casual AM DXer. A few of our crew once drove down there and built her a loop antenna, saving her about $75 because she wanted to buy some Radio Shack-job for $90. We told her 'No! We can do it better!'.
Of course, we drank her out of house and home.
Naturally, everybody knew what she meant about '50,000 kilowatts'. But still -- it's her radio and her 1610 Lansdale.

TIA for any info.
 
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Steve Green NEPA said:
Just last night we were on the phunge with a buddy of ours down in Lansdale, who enjoys this station, '1610, in Lansdale'.
Disreputable audio quality, she says. But she insists that they play old time radio shows plus quirky and interesting music.

Radio-Dislocator lists nothing licensed between 1570 Doylestown and 1660 Trenton. so I figure this is some Part-15 station; an LPAM.

Is there anyone here from that area who knows?
Or might there be some sort of general list of LPAM stations in existence?

* * * * * * *

Now this listener is the same gal who once got a great laugh by posting somewhere about receiving WKBW and its '50,000 kilowatts'. She is not that reception-savvy although she is a more-than-casual AM DXer. A few of our crew once drove down there and built her a loop antenna, saving her about $75 because she wanted to buy some Radio Shack-job for $90. We told her 'No! We can do it better!'.
Of course, we drank her out of house and home.
Naturally, everybody knew what she meant about '50,000 kilowatts'. But still -- it's her radio and her 1610 Lansdale.

TIA for any info.
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a quick google search revels this as the likely answer: http://www.wnar-am.com/graphical/

maybe they have more then one transmirter and the second one isnt on 1620?
 
Thanks much for the info, folks!

As I'd mentioned, our buddy Carol is sometimes a bit off-keel regarding reception circumstances. Perhaps she is using an analogue radio, hence 1610 becomes 1620. It's got to be the same station, though. The next time we speak with her, I'll pass along the info we got from SomeRadioGuy.

And @ Ixnay : Yessir. During the day up near JFK Airport in Queens, we were able to hear WNAR Norristown *daily* on 1110 if we wanted so. They were a pretty cool station even for us kids -- our Folks' music and presentation. WNAR 1110 might've been running only 500 watts omni at the time ; I can't be sure. But we had better radios and antennae then than Carol From Lansdale has now.

Mercy boe-coops, Philly posters. Wow -- NOTHING gets past you people!
 
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