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DX TEST THIS WEEKEND: WSRY 1550 Elkton MD
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Scoose me, but I just checked them out on Radio-Locator, that says they are pumping out 1000 watts day and "1 Watts" at night, and running different directional patterns for day and night. I just find it interesting [place sarcasm here] the station would need a different directional pattern at night to protect other stations from its killer "1 Watts".
trusty said:Scoose me, but I just checked them out on Radio-Locator, that says they are pumping out 1000 watts day and "1 Watts" at night, and running different directional patterns for day and night. I just find it interesting [place sarcasm here] the station would need a different directional pattern at night to protect other stations from its killer "1 Watts".
Exactly - if the stations that need protection are that threatened by 1 Watt, they need to either go out of business or get rid of the trash they have on the air.
Look a little closer....the directional antenna specs are identical between day & night. Sometimes the FCC's definition of a pattern is less than precise...trusty said:Scoose me, but I just checked them out on Radio-Locator, that says they are pumping out 1000 watts day and "1 Watts" at night, and running different directional patterns for day and night. I just find it interesting [place sarcasm here] the station would need a different directional pattern at night to protect other stations from its killer "1 Watts".
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=21621
trusty said:Scoose me, but I just checked them out on Radio-Locator, that says they are pumping out 1000 watts day and "1 Watts" at night, and running different directional patterns for day and night. I just find it interesting [place sarcasm here] the station would need a different directional pattern at night to protect other stations from its killer "1 Watts".
9.87 mV/m at 1 kilometer - now that's a "killer" signal at night - lost in the jumble more than about 2 miles from the transmitter, I'm sure!
Kinda doubt it's a different pattern at night from the looks of the day/night maps, and I checked the more detailed pattern plots at fcc.gov - it's a different pattern at night, alright (smaller) - same bearings on both day/night patterns. It also seems doubtful that an AM station operating less than about 10 watts at night would go through the expen$e of additional phasing equipment just to have night operation. But that's my opinion...
Maybe I'll try for WSRY - just over 3 1/2 hours from now...(0120 UTC as I write this)
I've often wished that the FCC would calculate night power using a non directional antenna as well as using the licensed daytime antenna. If the station being protected happens to be in the direction that the DA aims the signal, the result could be more power at night with a non-d antenna.stormy01 said:trusty said:Scoose me, but I just checked them out on Radio-Locator, that says they are pumping out 1000 watts day and "1 Watts" at night, and running different directional patterns for day and night. I just find it interesting [place sarcasm here] the station would need a different directional pattern at night to protect other stations from its killer "1 Watts".
9.87 mV/m at 1 kilometer - now that's a "killer" signal at night - lost in the jumble more than about 2 miles from the transmitter, I'm sure!
Kinda doubt it's a different pattern at night from the looks of the day/night maps, and I checked the more detailed pattern plots at fcc.gov - it's a different pattern at night, alright (smaller) - same bearings on both day/night patterns. It also seems doubtful that an AM station operating less than about 10 watts at night would go through the expen$e of additional phasing equipment just to have night operation. But that's my opinion...
Listening to 1550 right now, and as expected, Windsor Ontario is dominant here in Michigan. Phasing Windsor out, I'm getting a strong Spanish station with an announcer yelling "BUENO!" between songs. Also heard a mention of Ohio so it's probably WDLR. Under the Spanish station, I'm hearing another station with sports talk...
I'm located about 120 miles SW of WSRY and listing to 1550 right now at midnight, I have not been able to hear the Elkton station. Instead I heard CBE. When I null out CBE I heard the Spanish music station though barely, I think it's may be WDLR doing 29 watts. (I'm in northern VA) I also heard one 1550 playing the Beatles' "Day Tripper" and then it fades away; I think it may be WCVL Crawfordville, IN. Radio-Locator says it operates at 6 W at night but AM LogBook says it 250W at night so I don't who's right.
WCVL is Non Directional Day and Night 250 Day 5 Night
gr8oldies said:Unless something drastic has changed WCVL is 250 watts at night with a narrow bow tie east west pattern. Same for the New Castle IN station
LibertyNT said:WCVL is Non Directional Day and Night 250 Day 5 Night
Looking back through the FCC files, I see that they were directional at night but chose to reduce power and go non-directional recently. In so doing they dismantled three of the their four towers. And going back further I saw that pre-sunrise authority was based on four towers with 12 augmentations. Sounds like they simplified their life substantially by doing the downgrade!
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