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Daytimers with extended hours

I think 1560 WQEW in New York uses their daytime pattern until sunset in Bakersfield, California.

One of the strangest stations parameters belong to 1560 WPAD in Paducah, KY. They are 10 kw day (2 tower), 1kw at sunset (3 towers), then at sunset in Bakersfield (about 2 hours later) they go to 5kw (4 towers). Three differnet patterns and power levels. At least they used to do this when they got the increase to 5 kw at night in the 80's.
 
vacuum tube said:
I think 1560 WQEW in New York uses their daytime pattern until sunset in Bakersfield, California.

One of the strangest stations parameters belong to 1560 WPAD in Paducah, KY. They are 10 kw day (2 tower), 1kw at sunset (3 towers), then at sunset in Bakersfield (about 2 hours later) they go to 5kw (4 towers). Three differnet patterns and power levels. At least they used to do this when they got the increase to 5 kw at night in the 80's.
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When I read this, my first thought was that the WPAD null toward WQEW had to be remarkable, as WSEZ 1560 Paoli,IN just 150 miles closer to WQEW was not offered ANY night power...not even the option to use the approved 1 watt Post Sunset power. This must be one of the classic "I can see the towers, but I can't hear the station" scenarios.
 
When KGBS 1020 Los Angeles was KPOP in the 1950's it would come back on the air every night at 9pm as KDKA would sign off at midnight all week then.
 
JON BRUCE said:
When KGBS 1020 Los Angeles was KPOP in the 1950's it would come back on the air every night at 9pm as KDKA would sign off at midnight all week then.
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...and then sign back off the air at 5:00 AM Pittsburgh time, 2:00 AM Los Angeles time. It was supposedly learning about this time pattern that gave writer Malcolm Malmorstein the initial idea for the 1971 Rod Serling's Night Gallery episode "The Flip Side of Satan," starring Arte Johnson as an unethical disc jockey who lands a job at a radio station that only broadcasts from Midnight to Sunrise...
 
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