What does WMOB do?
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What does WMOB do?
I am very good friends with a contract engineer for Bott Radio in Missouri, so i knew i could send him a message and hed funnel it directly to Bott in KC.. which he did and they were on it first thing Monday
I'll even give them a pass on several days.. sometimes it can take a few days to reach someone or get non tech people to understand what they're dealing with.
WMOB's owner is dead too, which makes it a bit harder, but theyve been cheating for years... he knew about it and basically thumbed his nose at things when told about it
One local engineer back in the day famously threw a celebration on the day Reagan was elected.
Quote: "He is gonna cut the FCC budget so low that within a few years you'll be able to hear this station on Jupiter!"
I think there may even be a little funny stuff going with WMOB daytime. At the vacation place where we stay on the Gulf, they splatter onto WCOA (Pensacola 1370). Something that probably shouldn't be happening. WCOA still has the stronger signal, but not by much,
That said, WMOB still disappears into the slop at night (as does WCOA). Also, it's been a while since I've heard WMOB at my home location near Chicago. Although, to be honest, I haven't spent much time on 1360 of late.
That said, WMOB still disappears into the slop at night (as does WCOA). Also, it's been a while since I've heard WMOB at my home location near Chicago. Although, to be honest, I haven't spent much time on 1360 of late.
Heck, I don't care what such 'forgetful' stations are called.
Although there *is* something a poster here mentioned about a station going 'oops' for a day, or a weekend, or a few days -- but not bothering to power down for months. That can be construed as blatant. Considering the reception condition the dial is in recently, I'll take anything new. To me they're a dot on the log.
An oddity re WMOB 1360. They indeed came up here for a few nights. I'm 7-8 miles north of Pottsville, a city itself with a full-time station on 1360. That would've been in March 2013. WMOB came in right over them.
A few years before that, religious-programming rival WLVV managed to make it up to here for a few nights on 1410. I doubt that staffers at either religious station atoned or went to confession during all this, either, hi.
Another oddity (somewhat off-topic) is that Mobile was one of three cities I know of where each market had stations on 1360 and 1410 -- competing ones -- simultaneously. Pittsburgh had top 40 KQV 1410, and Top 40 rival WIXZ on 1360.
Hartford had top 40 rivals WDRC 1360 and 1410 WPOP.
Perhaps someone here has other simultaneous-rival 1360-1410 examples? Present or past?
Although there *is* something a poster here mentioned about a station going 'oops' for a day, or a weekend, or a few days -- but not bothering to power down for months. That can be construed as blatant. Considering the reception condition the dial is in recently, I'll take anything new. To me they're a dot on the log.
An oddity re WMOB 1360. They indeed came up here for a few nights. I'm 7-8 miles north of Pottsville, a city itself with a full-time station on 1360. That would've been in March 2013. WMOB came in right over them.
A few years before that, religious-programming rival WLVV managed to make it up to here for a few nights on 1410. I doubt that staffers at either religious station atoned or went to confession during all this, either, hi.
Another oddity (somewhat off-topic) is that Mobile was one of three cities I know of where each market had stations on 1360 and 1410 -- competing ones -- simultaneously. Pittsburgh had top 40 KQV 1410, and Top 40 rival WIXZ on 1360.
Hartford had top 40 rivals WDRC 1360 and 1410 WPOP.
Perhaps someone here has other simultaneous-rival 1360-1410 examples? Present or past?
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Green bay comes close with WTAQ on 1360 and WDUZ on 1400.
Closer to home, just south of me on the far western edge of the Chicago area, We have WLBK on 1360 from De Kalb, IL and WRMN 1410 in Elgin, IL. Both are 1kw ND daytime separated by about 22 miles of mostly cornfields in an area with good ground conductivity.
Quito, Ecuador had news / sports stations Radio Quito on 1360 and competitor Emisoras Gran Colombia on 1410 in the 50's and 60's. And, of course, on 1380 we had Emisoras Gran Colombia's sister station, Radio Tiempo, also in Quito.
Eventually EGC moved to 610 and Radio Quito to 760 when they figured out that a tower and a lower frequency got better coverage.
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