radioguybroadcasting said:
Channel Surf said:
Interesting...thanks for the replies...I do recall that when I would drive west of Boston, in the early 70s,
WMEX tended to fade rather rapidly and 1510 would in fact get taken over for a while by WNLC between Worcester and Springfield.
You sure it was WNLC? They were SO directional you could see the towers but not hear them... you couldn't hear them in Norwich, let alone WIllimantic/Windham or Worcester!
It was definitely WNLC...I caught their Legal ID. This was a regular occurence when I would drive out that way. But remember...this was 1973, and I was using a 1965 GM Delco AM car radio at the time with the whip antenna fully extended. Those old car radios tended to perform as well as a Superadio or a CC Radio on the AM band. As a matter of fact I did most of my AM DXing with car radios at that time, because they tended to perform so well.
Those old car radios were the
WNLC may have been on day pattern/power before or after the change to or from night pattern when you caught it in Massachusetts. At night, it used to instantly disappear at the Waterford/Montville line.
