Re: WNNW/WCCM Update

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 09:08 PM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 8:59 PM,WNNW just suddenly went off the air in the middle of a song,no
>ID or good night,just dumped and off.Tuned up to WCCM,heard the end of the
>song playing,heard legal ID:The Voice Of The Valley,800 WCCM
>Lawrence/Boston.They can be heard in Boston during the day,although not a
>city grade signal,but I highly doubt that they get close to Boston on 243
>watts,especially with CKLW dominant about 5-7 miles from the WCCM tx
>site.They come in decently here on the night power,but you can hear CKLW
>under them,and later in the night and into the overnight,CKLW is almost
>equal with WCCM here.                                                      
>                                                           Mark Watson
>
I've picked up a surprisingly good post-sunset signal from WCCM in Arlington
Heights, near Route 2 and about 1/2 mile east of the Lexington line. My QTH
is, of course, a good deal closer to Lawrence than Boston is, but it's still
much farther from Lawrence than I would expect to be able to hear a
listenable signal from a 243W station that has to beat out CKLW et al. What
I don't know is whether WCCM was actually running its PSSA power when I
heard it.

As for WNNW, I think they also violate the terms of their license in the
winter when sunrise is after 6:00 AM. As a Class B station east of a
dominant station on on Class A channel, WNNW is not (as far as I know)
entitled to pre-sunrise authority. I think WNNW (like WILD, for example) is
permitted to sign on with full day power (or CH power, if applicable--which
it isn't in WNNW's case but is in WILD's) at local sunrise year 'round.

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