AM Frequency of the Week: 1550

[fybush]

Here in Rochester NY, daytime is WCGR from Canandaigua, a 250-watt signal from about 25 miles away. It gets clobbered sometimes in my part of town by a mixing product of WXXI 1370 and WHIC 1460, and it only exists these days to feed two FM translators.

At night, it's usually CBEF.

 

[Mark Roberts]

I forgot to mention earlier this week that, in Denver shortly after local sunset, the University of Arizona's KUAZ often comes in, until it's local sunset at Tucson. It's hard to miss; there aren't many NPR outlets on AM, and KUAZ must be the only one on 1550!

 

[QED]

Montreal's CBEF at 50k is really getting a number done on it's French broadcast by WITK Wilkes Barre,Pa Christian programming. You can hear both but call it 60/40 in strength, in So. New England.

 

[DXingRadio]

Montreal's CBEF at 50k is really getting a number done on it's French broadcast by WITK Wilkes Barre,Pa Christian programming. You can hear both but call it 60/40 in strength, in So. New England.

In central Maryland WITK and WIGN (Bristol, TN) often battle it out in the evenings, also if both run day power at night.

 

[Hendricus (Harry) van Vugt]

Montreal's CBEF at 50k is really getting a number done on it's French broadcast by WITK Wilkes Barre,Pa Christian programming. You can hear both but call it 60/40 in strength, in So. New England.

In central Maryland WITK and WIGN (Bristol, TN) often battle it out in the evenings, also if both run day power at night.

CBEF has a power of 10,000 watts and is located in Windsor, Ontario. It does carry Radio-Canada French-language network programming.

 

[secondchoice]

Does working at a former 1550 (plural) now both now gone count? I worked briefly at 1550 Soddy Daisy Tennessee 1975 (now gone). Also in Tennessee I worked at old WPTN Cookeville (now 780) was 1550 in 1977 and 78 when I worked there.

For some reason the FCC tried to see how many stations they could squeeze onto 1550 which the Canadians control at night in the 1950's and early 1960's. I guess was easy technically with poor soil conductivity. This was before squirrel power at night so most stations had to have 250 or more watts at night *. Huntsville AL and Smyrna GA could do night servive with directional patterns at night and proper spacing from Canada

* I could be wrong it's be over 50 years.

 

[billmich]

Does working at a former 1550 (plural) now both now gone count? I worked briefly at 1550 Soddy Daisy Tennessee 1975 (now gone). Also in Tennessee I worked at old WPTN Cookeville (now 780) was 1550 in 1977 and 78 when I worked there.

For some reason the FCC tried to see how many stations they could squeeze onto 1550 which the Canadians control at night in the 1950's and early 1960's. I guess was easy technically with poor soil conductivity. This was before squirrel power at night so most stations had to have 250 or more watts at night *. Huntsville AL and Smyrna GA could do night servive with directional patterns at night and proper spacing from Canada

* I could be wrong it's be over 50 years.

were the 2 you worked at both daytimers?

 

[secondchoice]

were the 2 you worked at both daytimers?

Yes 1550 Cookeville simulcasted 94.3 now 94.7 (WGSQ). At Soddy Daisy we signed off 1 minute early. Supposedly the Huntsville 1550 has an employee who lived outside the direction pattern at night could "hear" Soddy-Daisy and called to "warn" one time when the clock somehow got behind and they stayed on approximately 5 or 6 minutes late. Kind of reminded me of the old Andy Griffith show when Gomer as trying to use "citizen's arrest" to arrest Barney.

 

[Dondd]

This is what I receive here in central Texas on occasion:

1550	WPFC	Baton Rouge	LA
1550	KWBC	College Station/ Navasota	TX