I am in Huntsville, AL and attempted to listen to WBZ in Boston at night recently. I heard oldies! Apparently, WEBS in Calhoun,GA has been on high power at night for about two weeks now. They are a Class D with one tower and are licensed for 5kw day and 3 watts night.
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WEBS AM 1030 On At Night
- Thread starter Brian Voice Guy
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WEBS has been doing this sporadically for years. I often hear them here in Central KY at night. Lots of stations don't pay attention to "such minor details" as powering down or changing antenna patterns at sunset anymore....and the FCC doesn't seem to care, either, especially now that they are furloughing much of their engineering/monitoring staff.
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We have a local in SLC that uses a lot of part-time and volunteer talent. Seems that they often run a 10-KW carrier all night.
I think somebody got hold of them, and they got the message....they now seem to be running with automation controlling the transmitter. Even heard it drop the signal right in the middle of the sign-off announcement the other night.
Try calling WEBS and see what they say. You might ask to speak to their engineer, or call one of their larger competitors, and see who they think might be the Contract Engineer (most bigger stations' engineers know who works where).
I think somebody got hold of them, and they got the message....they now seem to be running with automation controlling the transmitter. Even heard it drop the signal right in the middle of the sign-off announcement the other night.
Try calling WEBS and see what they say. You might ask to speak to their engineer, or call one of their larger competitors, and see who they think might be the Contract Engineer (most bigger stations' engineers know who works where).
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