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Whats up with am 910???

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paradioguy

Has anyone noticed that around 5 pm, AM 910 WSBA's signal is almost non exsitant? I live in Mount Joy Lancaster county area. I know that there stick is right beneath WGAL TV8's Huge tower. I can see WGAL from my back door, yet WSBA after 5 pm, you can barely hear it. I pick up 1210 WPHT from Philly clearer then WSBA, and the trnasmiter is visual from my back yard. What is up with that?? When you head towards Lancaster, forget it, it is completly gone. If they lower there signal that low why bother to broadcast at all????? No wonder WHP 580 kicks blows them away.
 
Unfortunately THEY do not have control over that. As most AM broadcasters MUST
reduce power and some change direction at sunset. These are FCC regulations
and have been in place for decades. Complicating the matter these days
are stations utilizing HD on AM it causes splatter and interference.
Some have ceased using it during night time operations but again something
that is out of a stations control. WSBA reduces power at sunset as do most
AM stations hopefully this answers your question.
 
If you live in Mount Joy, you do not see WSBA's stick. WSBA has a 4-tower array located just west of the George Street exit of Interstate 83 on the north side of York.

Perhaps you are thinking of WSBA's sister station -- WARM-103 -- which does have its tower located near the WGAL tower, and which should be visible from Mount Joy.
 
I believe WARM 103 is actually transmitting from the WPMT-TV tower, the one with the white strobes-no paint. The smaller tower right next to that with the red beacons-red/white stripe painting is the old WARM transmitting tower used up until WPMT was built. Channel 8's tower is about a mile or so north of the WPMT tower and also uses red beacons-red/white stripe painting
 
As a footnote, the new WXPN signal on 88.7 known as WZXM is also transmitting from an old Quest microwave tower directly across the road from the Channel 8 tower on Tower Road, Hellam.
 
The FCC mandates that AM stations that carry Dave Ramsey six or more days per week must reduce power and change their broadcast pattern after sunset.
 
WHP 580 SWITCHES TO A DIRECTIONAL PATTERN AT SUNSET; THE PATTERN SHOOTS
DIRECTLY OVER LANCASTER COUNTY; IT IS A SOUTHEAST PATTERN. HOWEVER
THEY STILL OPERATE ON 5KW POWER OUTPUT.
DAYTIME WHP IS NON DIRECTIONAL 5 KW.
 
WSBA goes South-southeast at night, and while listenable in Lancaster and south from there, you're just far enough north in Mt. Joy to be in the null that protects Scranton at night. As someone else mentioned, the stick(s) you see are WPMT/WARM (strobes), WGAL/WROZ (painted w/6 red lights), and the old WARM tower (painted w/3 or 4 red lights near WPMT). WSBA has 4 new towers but they're in the same place they've always been, just off I-83 at George St behind Rutters Dairy.
 
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