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WCKW 1420am on Long Island,NY

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islanddxer

Pretty steady signal tonight, considering they're only 100 or so watts at this time it's pretty amazing. Unique format too, few sweepers or ID's, was able to ID the station from the ads, as WCKW from Warrentown,VA.
Oddly 2am just passed no TOH ID.
 
islanddxer said:
Pretty steady signal tonight, considering they're only 100 or so watts at this time it's pretty amazing. Unique format too, few sweepers or ID's, was able to ID the station from the ads, as WCKW from Warrentown,VA.
Oddly 2am just passed no TOH ID.
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That should be WKCW...there goes my dyslexia again...
 
islanddxer said:
Pretty steady signal tonight, considering they're only 100 or so watts at this time it's pretty amazing. Unique format too, few sweepers or ID's, was able to ID the station from the ads, as WCKW from Warrentown,VA.
Oddly 2am just passed no TOH ID.
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I also heard this station a couple of weeks ago (3/8) in southern Vermont. IDed by numerous mentions of "Fairfax County" and "area code 703", though I never heard a proper ID. One of the strongest signals on a mostly dead AM dial that night. I had another surprise that night at 920, WURA Quantico (caught a legal ID in English). Never heard either of these stations here before. Both WBAL and WBT were also booming in (nothing really unusual about that), but not much else. No sign of any of the usual DX suspects from the east, west or north that night. I figured the reception of 920/1420 was related to the solar flare activity a couple weeks ago, but perhaps (as someone posted above) they have recently been "forgetting" to power down at night?
 
WKCW booms in here afternoons a couple of hours before sunset. About 200 miles to NE NC. Oldies on 1420. Never hear them at night. I'll try from home tonight.
 
Early this morning around 1 AM, WKCW was overpowering the usually heard WHK on this frequency here in Lexington, KY. I am almost sure there were operating on their 22,000 watts Daytime pattern by the strength of the signal heard.
 
WKCW appears to have not power down at nights as I have heard them pretty clearly at night recently. Before that, it's usually a jumble of multiple of stations at night and I live about 15 miles from this station.
 
The "Big K" never gets much right. Day and night power is just but one of those things. They are a great listen for what not to do to a radio station. I'm mystified as to how they've stuck around this long with no advertisers and no legal ID's for sometimes days on end. Dead air, repeating the same song two or three times an hour is quite common too.
 
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