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WENO AM 760 and WHEW AM 1380

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BuzzCam

I like to DX around the AM Band at night. I am curious as to why WENO leaves their transmitter on over night? I have noticed this over the past few weeks. It seems like an enormous waste of money. They completely block out WJR in Detroit.

And, since WHEW, Franklin, had its license deleted, how is it able to stay on the air? I even hear WHEW at night in Nashville. The sister station, WPFD in Fairwiew, also, had its license deleted. That station no longer on the air.

WHEW (or as the call sign is listed on the FCC Site, DWHEW) is probably the highest power pirate to ever broadcast in the Nashville area. And, I worry about the FCC nabbing me when I use my little CCrane FM Transmiiter to stream music to me when I am working out in the yard on the weekends. And, it only transmits about 100 feet.
 
It looks like WHEW at least is trying to get their license back. Looking at this app:https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...text=25&appn=101513866&formid=911&fac_num=681 pm the FCC website, I would assume they forgot to file their FCC license renewal, so it would of expired on 8/1. They got a letter from the FCC notifying them that their license was deleted on 8/27, on 8/28 they filed for the renewal. They filed for a legal STA on 8/30, asking for permission to stay on the air while the issue is sorted out
 
Thanks for the info. I get the daily digest e-mail from the FCC, but I was unclear on the STA and how that worked. I read where the renewal request was accepted for filing.

I think the guy's (who owns 1380) brother (or another family member) owns the station at 850 in Fairview. They must not be too interested in getting that one back on the air.
 
I'm not exactly sure either, at least in this case. In a engineering STA, if for example a stations tower is taken down in a tornado, and they operate from another tower, they file the STA, this being after the fact. So the station is already operating on the different tower, then they file the STA to inform the FCC of the fact
 
Yeah, I heard 830, too, up around Evansville one night recently, loud and clear. Oh well, I can barely pick up 8-3-0 up in Minneapolis anyway, so it was nice to hear something, anything on 830. Since AM is going the way of FM anyway in the form of translators and since the AM listenership is just little north of zilch and since so many of the national talk shows are duplicated on so many Class 1-A stations, why should it matter to the FCC whether or not a station stays on longer than it's licensed. I mean....does it really matter?
 
At least, WKDA-AM 900 in Lebanon, is no longer switching from their daytime antenna located in their COL, to an antenna near me, in Donelson, at night, which is 30 miles from the COL and interfering with WLS. All that reverb used on WKDA splattered all over the place.
 
BuzzCam said:
I think the guy's (who owns 1380) brother (or another family member) owns the station at 850 in Fairview. They must not be too interested in getting that one back on the air.
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I think you can safely color WPFD gone by now. They've been off the air so long that they ain't coming back! I was not aware that WPFD was owned by the same group that owned WHEW. I was told at one time that WPFD was simulcasting WHEW, but I never observed that at any time that I tuned in. Apparently, there just weren't enough Spanish-speaking listeners near Fairview to make a go of that station.
 
Swerving back to the original topic...I was under the impression that when the FCC limits a licence to daytime it means not just no modulated carrier, it means no carrier at all. So, why wouldn't the FCC punish WENO for a violation?
 
Jon J said:
Swerving back to the original topic...I was under the impression that when the FCC limits a licence to daytime it means not just no modulated carrier, it means no carrier at all. So, why wouldn't the FCC punish WENO for a violation?
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if someone complains, or if a FCC person catches it, then, yes they would
 
I listened to 830 AM this evening, not sure what the call sign is as they IDed themselves as 101.9 and 102.1 at 6:55pm, then cut the carrier with no sign off and ID at 7pm. WENO still leaves its transmitter on all night. It looks like a few are depending on automation a little too much.
 
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