Is 1200 Cleaned Up?

[Shellanswerman]

There has been some talk lately about the Canadian station on 1200 khz being seriously over-powered at night. Last night (01/28) I listened to Air America Radio on WKOX-AM while driving north on route 128 from the route 1A area through the route 225 area (then beyond). Within this arc, WKOX came in just about as well as one could expect for a 1 KW (DA) from whatever distance downtown Framingham is along this path. I heard no sports talk or PBP, in fact I heard a little "Music of Your Life" dimly in the backgound. It seems to me that the Canadian sportscaster was off-the-air or they've patched up their nightime pattern (or signals from inland Canada were attenuated last night, which I doubt). BTW, the Air America host at that time, Saturday at midnight, Mike Malloy, is a nut! No wonder he was exiled to this timeslot.

 

[DanStrassberg]

> There has been some talk lately about the Canadian station
> on 1200 khz being seriously over-powered at night. Last
> night (01/28) I listened to Air America Radio on WKOX-AM
> while driving north on route 128 from the route 1A area
> through the route 225 area (then beyond). Within this arc,
> WKOX came in just about as well as one could expect for a 1
> KW (DA) from whatever distance downtown Framingham is along
> this path. I heard no sports talk or PBP, in fact I heard a
> little "Music of Your Life" dimly in the backgound. It
> seems to me that the Canadian sportscaster was off-the-air
> or they've patched up their nightime pattern (or signals
> from inland Canada were attenuated last night, which I
> doubt). BTW, the Air America host at that time, Saturday
> at midnight, Mike Malloy, is a nut! No wonder he was
> exiled to this timeslot.
>
I suspect that CFGO has been operating within the terms of its license since approximately January 10. In other words, the problem was likely repaired almost exactly 13 weeks after it began. I did not post for fear that subsequent listening would prove me wrong. There were days during the 13-week period when CFGO did not interfere with WKOX, but sometimes WKOX could be in the clear for three or four hours and then suddenly be buried again. However, CFGO has now not been evident to me for almost three weeks, and I have heard WTLA several times, though not as often as before CFGO's problems began. Perhaps WTLA decided to retaliate against CFGO by operating ND at night and does not yet realize that it's time to go back to DA-N operation. WTLA (the adult standars station in N Syracuse) is licensed for 1 kW-U DA-N (two towers) with a DA that sends more signal to the east than the ND operation does. So if WTLA were operating with 1 kW-U ND-U, I'd expect to hear less of it here than if it were operating in accordance with its license.

 

[radioear]

Re: 1200 Air America

I have noticed that 1200 sounds better at night.
The Air America stations are now presets on my car radio.