WFME tower is had been sold

[Theater of My Mind]

@ Theatre of Your Mind -- Perhaps a bit off-topic, but maybe of marginal interest :

One night I was driving north on that stretch of the Jersey Tpk you referenced. North Bergen, Ridgefield ........
The AM dial was an upside-down, inside out, clashing cacophony of whistles amd images and mixing spurs that was so horrific at one point that the racket completely turned WFAN silent for a quarter-mile. No audio on 660 at all.
I GTFOed from there fast, before I looked at my hands on the steering wheel to see if their bones were visible.

I never tried tuning 660 in that area but 880 from the same tower nearly disappears for me around there. There's either a null in the signal pattern coming from High Island, or the stronger AM signals coming from the NJ meadowlands are enough to overwhelm people's radios along that stretch. Maybe it's a combination of both.

 

[BobSmith]

This is all anecdotal on my part but WFME-AM must be broadcasting at 2.5kW or above by now (my feeling is they've gotten up to at least 5kW) as the signal into Ontario, Canada is definitely stronger. Still fades in and out but the fade in signal is notably stronger.

 

[Yabadabado1]

Was dialing around the AM band one night and heard WFME hear in NE Ohio. Don't think I've ever been able to get them before.