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WNYH-AM 74 not powering down/off at night

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RadioFixerCLE

Can hear them when in New York City, overpowering the clear channel station in Toronto.

Down here in New Bern, NC I can tune in Toronto, but you can hear the chattering from WNYH underneat.

Wonder how much Erick Salgado is paying the good Dr. Yoon to overlook the terms and conditions of WNYH's license. Maybe a call or letter(s) to the FCC is in order? 8) :mad: :p
 
He was doing the same thing when he was running WXCT AM 990 in Connecticut. One email to WNTP in Philly took care of that. Unfortunately the new people running WXCT are doing it again. DMG owner of WXCT claims Erick Selgado is still leasing the station, which if true means he's sub-leasing it, because WXCT is no longer running Radio Cantico Nuevo, rather they're still doing Spanish Christian programming but as Radio Conectate which is based at 1355 Brentwood Road in Bayshore, New York. (Long Island?)

http://www.radioconectate.com/
 
Does not surprise me one bit, its a sloppy operation. Dr. Yoon already has the file of complaints to the FCC. keep filing them folks. Maybe next time the liscense is up for renewal the FCC will give the franchise to someone who actually knows how to operate a radio station. I'd LOVE to see JVC Broadcasting take that one over. There is enthusiasm and professionalism in the management of that company, and it's LOCALLY owned, not some far off corporation.
 
MarcB said:
WXCT is no longer running Radio Cantico Nuevo, rather they're still doing Spanish Christian programming but as Radio Conectate which is based at 1355 Brentwood Road in Bayshore, New York. (Long Island?)

http://www.radioconectate.com/
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IIRC Radio Conectate was also on AM 54 (WLIE Islip) for a while - Christian propaganda tied with infomercials for home mortgage lenders. Talk about a den of thieves.... ::)
 
The problem with 740, and why Yoon can not unload it, is that there is a lease coming due on the tower site. That land is smack dab in the middle of Huntington down a residential street. You can bet even in todays depressed market it may be worth more to develop houses on it tin that area, than a radio tower on a mismanaged station that sooner or later will implode. Unfortunately the longer Yoon holds on to it, the less its worth. Only a radio operator who already had access to or owned a tower could prosper with this thing. I'm thinking either JVC or the folks who owned WLIE..however I think they lost a lot of money on WLIE and its doubtful they want to get back into radio. Nonetheless a well managed am station with a cohesive format and an operator who knows what he or she is doing, I think could do very well on 740 AM.
 
I can't see JVC even wanting 740am...but certainly not with a time-bomb lease on the tower site (surrounded by McMansions that want it gone yesterday). The only thing to do it - short of turning in the license - is go for a power/pattern change on an existing TX site with one of those next-gen towers or diplexed on an existing stick. There is no reason for 740am to be burning 25kw and going nowhere.
 
Quick check here finds Toronto in the clear at 10:31 pm in Oreland PA. Agreed that some live/local programming, done by a company who know what the hell they're doing, would be best. Nothing like having a 25 kW toy, which is what Dr. Yoon has now. He'd be better off sticking to proctology.
 
I remember that only a few years ago, they rebuilt the entire facility, changing it's coverage pattern and power level. (I can't remember... didn't they also RELOCATE the transmitter site?) ???

For weeks, they were testing with a 3-disc CD changer playing very old hymns. They had SUPERB audio quality and also an EXCELLENT signal into CT. It was clearly listenable all the way up into the Waterbury area! :eek:

Look at the Radio-Locator map:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WNYH&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

Even for a daytime-only operation, that is some JUICY real estate to cover! :eek: They have a killer signal all along the I-95 and Merritt Parkway corridor from Branford, CT into NYC. That includes a few significant cities, let alone the populace of Long Island, the LIE, etc. ;D

Their USEFUL nighttime coverage is quite small, tho, with a measly 43 watts. It's almost a throw-away. They should sell or even DONATE that time to local people/organizations near the station. What a novel idea, eh? ;D
 
Willie,
I remember that testing very well. Not powering down after sunset, the signal blew the doors off the 740 in Toronto, and obliterated WVCH. I agree with you; the audio quality was excellent, almost Beautiful Music-like.
 
DG02816 said:
Willie,
I remember that testing very well. Not powering down after sunset, the signal blew the doors off the 740 in Toronto, and obliterated WVCH. I agree with you; the audio quality was excellent, almost Beautiful Music-like.
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Yes! Then they switched to who-knows-what, and it was squarewaved to the max! HORRIBLE! :mad: It stayed that way for quite some time! Must have made the Engineer who worked on it just shake his head. ??? He did an EXCELLENT job, then along comes whomever, and undoes it all. :p

Now it sounds like Spanish. I wonder how long this format will last? The last few formats sure didn't last very long! :-\
 
What I do know for a fact is the Caribbean Music format they were running on WNYH 740 - One Caribbean Radio - they terminated their lease because they were sick of dealing with the station's technical problems including it being off the air for days at a time. The Oldies format that followed was filler until they found someone else to lease the station. That's when The Koreans began leasing the station. I don't know what happened with that and how the station ended up being leased to Pastor Selgado. Maybe The Koreans ran out of money or maybe Pastor Selgado offered more money than what The Koreans were paying. All I know is I was as surprised as everyone else was when I did a band scan earlier this year and heard Radio Cantico Nuevo on AM 740. At that time I was able to pick up Radio Cantico Nuevo on two stations WNYH 740 from Huntington, Long Island and locally on WXCT 990 from Southington, Connecticut. The latter dropping Radio Cantico Nuevo in favor of Radio Conectate in March 2011.
 
Re: WNYH-AM 74 "Stunting" in '06

OK, so then who was responsible for the hymns that played for those first few MONTHS? The Engineer? I was still at WFIF at the time, and we were, albeit briefly, wondering if we were soon to have "competition" for listeners... until it became obvious what was really happening.

Having hymns on the radio was novel at first, but hearing only 3 CD's became very old, very fast! :p One of the three CD's had liner/ID announcements on it. That CD remained in rotation the whole time. The other two would be swapped out every few days, seemingly at random.

I believe that a listener-supported station that played hymns along with some of the mellower, more current Christian music, would do well. There are a significant number of Seniors who would LOVE a format like that! :D
 
Fwiw, I'm getting them here on a GE SR II, no external antenna, at 8:20 PM Tuesday, atop the channel. I'm between Hazleton and Pottsville PA.

Never heard them before, but then I haven't been that fervent an AM DXer as in previous decades. The pattern provided by WPHA sends 'some' juice this way, actually to a little north of here, but not enough to take over the channel! I don't think I'd get them this well if they HAD put those planned seven towers (or whatever) as close to here as Mount Olive NJ. At the peaks of their signal they're louder than WFAN.

25,000 watts omni?

Not bad music, though.

Gone completely at 8:32 or so.

Apparently the licensed pattern at night is a nice circle, completely within the four tower array, lol. But there's no signal there to replace it yet. I swear I can hear an open carrier from somewhere, now, though .....

'Woodchopper's Ball' and English language are here now at 8:46. Our sunset was 8:40 PM ; still a lot of daylight left.
 
WNYH is 25 kW with a 4 tower directional array; last I heard, they were running an STA for 6. 25 kW due to transmission line problems. Stve, when you heard them, they either went off the air or dropped to their 43 watt night power, and CFZM Toronto took over. Would love a station like that in the US, but one can dream.....
 
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