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[CTListener]

I do not know whether this is still the case because I am not active on HF, but there was a time when hams on 160 meters were allowed higher daytime power levels than [they were] at night and that, plus the portion of the band upon which they were allowed, varied from state to state.

Weren't those regional rules in place to protect LORAN in areas close to the ocean?

 

[davideduardo]

Then why is so much emphasis placed on the morning show on most stations with a current-based musical format? Middays are usually pretty anonymous, a pleasant voice sticking to a bland script, but everyone knows the morning crew and they're the ones who get all the promotion.

Mornings are the starting gate, and the cume magnet for listeners. While the amount of listening per tune-in is shorter, resulting in lower TSL in the daypart, the number of radio users in morning beats all others. So the best was to get listening incidents the rest of the day is to get people started with you in the morning.

 

[cyberdad]

..... as farms became more corporate, and farm data began to be transmitted by, first, pagers and then computers and the Internet, the wide coverage requirements for farm stations has declined. WNAX, for example, was once one of America's highest billing radio station.

Until relatively recently, WNAX had advertising signs all over The Dakotas, Nebraska, as well as parts of Minnesota and Iowa promoting themselves as "Your Big Friend in the Midwest"..complete with a goofy-looking "tower" cartoon character. It's been a few years, since I've listened to WNAX in that part of the world, but there'd be a weather segment twice an hour giving state forecasts for all of those aforementioned states. KRVN did something similar....minus Minnesota, but with Kansas and Colorado.

 

[Ai4i]

Weren't those regional rules in place to protect LORAN in areas close to the ocean?

Yes!

 

[FreddyE1977]

I used to live about half a mile from the WDLR transmitter, and I could barely get them at night!

 

[schmave]

Which direction Freddy? I know they don't send much signal north day or night, but even in all the times I've driven between Columbus and Toledo, I've never listened to WDLR "behind the pattern" at night to see for myself.

 

[FreddyE1977]

It was an apartment complex. As I recall it was a bit to the NE.

 

[schmave]

That definitely looks like one of the directions where they tuck in their signal.
Going south at night, I can usually hear WDLR pretty well to around 161 before it's subject to interference.