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Was looking at the specs on WYXC on Radio-Locator. It says "Antenna Mode: Non-directional 2 Patterns". (It also says "Number of Towers: 1.) There seem to be a few stations that have this ability on Radio-Locator.

Is it many typos, or what?
Thanx.
 
I'd say it's a mistake. The only pattern you are going to have with one tower is omnidirectional, as far as I am aware.
 
In 1985 George Webb showed me the emergency array he built for a station in Santa Clara California. It had one tower, but he used a fiberglass rope, strung at a 45 degree angle, to hang a cable, at half length of the tower, to provide a directional pattern. Technically it was a one tower, two pattern array. It sufficed until a new permanant array could be built.
 
Are you sure these stations don't run a different power level at night? That would cause two different patterns (one day, one night, even if it's only one - even the same - tower).
 
Actually Josh C, it would be two different signal "footprints", but one "pattern". Pattern refers to directionality of the signal, which would be the same day or night (with one traditional tower).
 
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