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AM Flea power.

secondchoice said:
If the have the typical 10 kw day 1 kw night expanded AM band licence and the clock or PC that controls the transmitter is messed up you could have 10 kw at night on a relatively clean channel. The coverage could be impressive.
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Uh no. It's not a regular broadcast station. It's what we think of being classed as a travelers information station or highway advisory radio station. those typicallly have 10 watts but some have had STA or regular licenses for up to 100 watts
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
Uh no. It's not a regular broadcast station. It's what we think of being classed as a travelers information station or highway advisory radio station. those typicallly have 10 watts but some have had STA or regular licenses for up to 100 watts
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When I was in Cookeville in the mid 1970s, our competition was WHUB AM & FM. I had a couple of friends that worked there and on the hallway out of the front reception area was a bunch of historical pictures. They are on 1400AM. The channel wasn't the mess it is now when they signed on in 1940. I forgot if they were 100 watts or 250 watts but they had regular listeners daytime in Arkansas. Supposedly there were a couple of stations that should have blocked them going west but maybe someone can explain better but I believe the relative height of Cookeville with the steep drop-off into the Nashville basin had something to do with it.
 
Near where I go in the mountains there was a traveler information station on 1610 AM. When the motel was still standing (they tore it down for a road project) I could hear it in the room at night.
 


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