Something for DXers to watch for, if not actually enjoy hearing :
Semi-local WHLM* Bloomsburg, 18 miles off, was heard here a few overnights ago as the loudest thing on the AM dial. They are licensed to put out `18 watts at night.
All I heard were voicers for 'Pop Radio' in between, uh, songs.
Tonight, 12:50am they are there again, atop the usual WBEN Buffalo but not nearly as loud as they'd been. However if they're using18 watts, so does my electric can opener. Pop Radio is some recent radio station chain of entertainment and may not know much about minor things like power-down..
The -- I guess you can call it -- music they play on Pop Radio, at least overnight, sounds as though someone left a recording studio, forgot to turn off the boom-boom-clap percussion, and allowed a few dozen people to take turns recording their culture, and what otherwise immediately disturbed them, for a full 24 hours. The result then got edited into thirty separate songs , all of which were way too long, and distributed to the Pop Radio programmers as a playlist.
Well anyway, it's something you might want to listen for, if not to.
* WHLM is what Radio-Locator uses. But if it;s in the legal ID at all, it's lost in a blizzard of letters and translators and HD's and numbers. All I managed to discern was a WBWX and a '94.7'.
Semi-local WHLM* Bloomsburg, 18 miles off, was heard here a few overnights ago as the loudest thing on the AM dial. They are licensed to put out `18 watts at night.
All I heard were voicers for 'Pop Radio' in between, uh, songs.
Tonight, 12:50am they are there again, atop the usual WBEN Buffalo but not nearly as loud as they'd been. However if they're using18 watts, so does my electric can opener. Pop Radio is some recent radio station chain of entertainment and may not know much about minor things like power-down..
The -- I guess you can call it -- music they play on Pop Radio, at least overnight, sounds as though someone left a recording studio, forgot to turn off the boom-boom-clap percussion, and allowed a few dozen people to take turns recording their culture, and what otherwise immediately disturbed them, for a full 24 hours. The result then got edited into thirty separate songs , all of which were way too long, and distributed to the Pop Radio programmers as a playlist.
Well anyway, it's something you might want to listen for, if not to.
* WHLM is what Radio-Locator uses. But if it;s in the legal ID at all, it's lost in a blizzard of letters and translators and HD's and numbers. All I managed to discern was a WBWX and a '94.7'.