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Heard Thursday evening here in central NJ on my J.C. Penney MCS-3050 tuner (with the best AM reception of any home stereo component I've used, plus C-Quam AM Stereo!)...
7:12 PM EDT: the local daytimer on 1070 kHz signed off a few minutes early, and I heard 1070 WKOK from Sunbury, PA coming in strongly on their non-directional 10,000-watt daytime pattern. Programming is mostly ESPN Radio with local news inserts. They triggered the AM Stereo decoder on my receiver, but it could've just been "falsing" because WKOK turned off their AM Stereo a few years ago (although they might have recently turned it back on). WKOK switched to their directional 1000-watt nighttime pattern at 7:19 PM and their signal went from being strong and dominant to being only intermittently intelligible amongst the soup of other stations on 1070 kHz (plus sideband chatter from 1060 KYW and 1080 WTIC).
I then came across a strong monaural Adult Standards music station on 1110 kHz, IDing as "1110 Easy Favorites" with Westwood One's syndicated format. This turned out to be WUHN, a directional 5000-watt daytimer from Pittsfield, MA, which was somehow staying on past local sunset at what most likely was full power. They basically shared the channel with WBT for as long as I listened; sometimes WUHN was dominant with WBT faintly audible in the background, and other times WBT was dominant with WUHN faintly audible in the background. Also notable was WUHN's audio processing, or lack of it: it almost sounded like an Inovonics or CRL limiter running "barefoot", with noticeable level differences between songs and liners, and a lack of phase rotation making voices sound unusually rich but also a bit distorted.
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7:12 PM EDT: the local daytimer on 1070 kHz signed off a few minutes early, and I heard 1070 WKOK from Sunbury, PA coming in strongly on their non-directional 10,000-watt daytime pattern. Programming is mostly ESPN Radio with local news inserts. They triggered the AM Stereo decoder on my receiver, but it could've just been "falsing" because WKOK turned off their AM Stereo a few years ago (although they might have recently turned it back on). WKOK switched to their directional 1000-watt nighttime pattern at 7:19 PM and their signal went from being strong and dominant to being only intermittently intelligible amongst the soup of other stations on 1070 kHz (plus sideband chatter from 1060 KYW and 1080 WTIC).
I then came across a strong monaural Adult Standards music station on 1110 kHz, IDing as "1110 Easy Favorites" with Westwood One's syndicated format. This turned out to be WUHN, a directional 5000-watt daytimer from Pittsfield, MA, which was somehow staying on past local sunset at what most likely was full power. They basically shared the channel with WBT for as long as I listened; sometimes WUHN was dominant with WBT faintly audible in the background, and other times WBT was dominant with WUHN faintly audible in the background. Also notable was WUHN's audio processing, or lack of it: it almost sounded like an Inovonics or CRL limiter running "barefoot", with noticeable level differences between songs and liners, and a lack of phase rotation making voices sound unusually rich but also a bit distorted.
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