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WSAT leaving its home of 75 years, and giving up towers

That explains a lot. However, I have rarely driven at night since March 2020. With limits on my computer time at the few libraries I go to, and the one library with lots of actual papers not opening for six months, I got used to going home earlier, and then one library I go to gave me unlimited online access to eEditions, new and old, which I thought was a way to keep from having to subscribe to the real papers when people couldn't go inside, or perhaps they decided they didn't want people touching all those actual papers. Turned out to be unrelated and I haven't had much opportunity to hear the station after dark.

Interference is happening an hour before sunset, though. That was happening today.
 
Daytime power for 1280 KHz will go from 1000 Watts to 850 Watts. Nighttime will go from 119 Watts to 130 Watts.

1490 KHz will go from 1000 Watts to 600 Watts. That is sort of odd since they are moving it back to the original tower.

From the application it appears the plan would be to use the folded unipole that is already installed on the ole Blaw Knox that WSTP was on for decades. The drawing shows a diplexer. That would indicate they are planning on using the same unipole for both stations. That would be a cost savings. Might not be the best for coverage.

That is if the commission approves the move. Both applications were posted back on August 10th.

t123
 
Worked there 1990-98, when it was still run by the Welch family, and Russ McIntire was still pulling an air shift. (Russ was a vocalist with the Claude Thornhill orchestra in the '40s; he passed in '99)
 
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