Here in Vermilion, OH I'm hearing a classic country station on 770 with the radio N/S. Radio-locator shows no country stations at all on 770. Anyone else hearing this or know who it might be?
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Classic Country on 770 tonight
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Was it Strong or Weak
Did you catch a ID?
Did you catch a ID?
I caught an ID just now...WAIS/Buchtel, OH - varying signal strength but coming in quite strong as I type this.
WABC is no where to be found
WABC comes in fine here if I orient the radio to anything other than N/S.
Well mid-song the station abruptly went off the air at 10:55pm EDT - as if someone read this and alerted them or something.
Also, I keep getting 'Database Error' when I try to pull up a thread on here and I have to refresh several times to get it to show up. What's going on with that?
Also, I keep getting 'Database Error' when I try to pull up a thread on here and I have to refresh several times to get it to show up. What's going on with that?
Can you get WAIS in the day?
SW Ohio
I tuned in about 10 minutes after you started this thread & also heard (now confirmed as WAIS) this station. WABC soon assumed it's dominant position, and there was no trace when I re-tuned at 10:59 PM.
Although it has been a while since this last happened it isn't the first time I've heard them up late.
MarioMania. I live in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, southwest of WAIS, and have not heard WAIS in the daytime. WAIS is about 135 miles (217 kilometers) from my house. Daytimes, I hear WCGW which serves Lexington, KY.
The WAIS signal is directed towards Columbus, Ohio.
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It's about an hour past sunset here and I'm hearing the classic country music again on 770. I'll keep listening to see if it's WAIS again or someone else.
Just heard the ID for WAIS. I was also hearing a sports station recapping NFL scores with the radio in the N/S orientation required to null WABC.
WABC coming in here in the northeast suburbs of Cincinnati right now (Sunday night - just before 9:00 P.M. EDT). I heard another station coming in behind it (some kind of discussion show), but was unable to ascertain what station that might be and now that station has drifted away.
Sounds like WAIS went off just before 9pm EDT this time but they were definitely there before that. Will have to check 770 Monday night after sunset for them.
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770 WAIS is a local station broadcasting a mixture of talk programs and local information. Alex Jones is on from noon to 3 M-F with country music played when the talk shows are not on. I typically listen to 770 WABC on the road at night and Alex Jones at noon. I noticed recently that the station appears to be unmanned when country music plays well past the Alex Jones start time causing a sudden interruption of the music right into the talk mid sentence.
While the signal is weak in areas south and west of the station, I heard the program loud and clear far north of Columbus indicating a 'beamed' signal much like 610 WTVN. 610 faded out a few miles south of Columbus at night but has been heard as far away as Lapland over the poll due to night beaming.
770 WAIS is a local station broadcasting a mixture of talk programs and local information. Alex Jones is on from noon to 3 M-F with country music played when the talk shows are not on. I typically listen to 770 WABC on the road at night and Alex Jones at noon. I noticed recently that the station appears to be unmanned when country music plays well past the Alex Jones start time causing a sudden interruption of the music right into the talk mid sentence.
While the signal is weak in areas south and west of the station, I heard the program loud and clear far north of Columbus indicating a 'beamed' signal much like 610 WTVN. 610 faded out a few miles south of Columbus at night but has been heard as far away as Lapland over the poll due to night beaming.
Actually, the signal is non-directional. 1,000 watts, according to radio-locator. The reason the signal does better to the northwest is because the ground conductivity is better in that direction.
As for the station being on when it's not supposed to be, etc. As was posted earlier, this stuff didn't happen when there were actual humans in charge of what was going out over the air at radio stations. Of course, humans make mistakes too. Earlier this year my middle son and his wife became parents of triplets. They don't have a particularly clear grasp of when bedtime is supposed to be, either!
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