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Re: WPTR
WHAS is 50-kW ND-U--same facilities day and night.
As for KXEL, isn't it licensed to Waterloo-Cedar Falls?
That's how I remember it from 50+ years ago, when I used
to listen in New York. I don't know how close or how far
Waterloo is to Cedar Rapids; the station might well have
moved. One thing that's almost certainly true, though:
whatever KXEL's COL, the community is smaller than Fort
Wayne. If so, those who claimed that WOWO was the Class
A AM that was licensed to the community with the lowest
population of any in the 48 contiguous states to which a
Class A AM was licensed, were in error.
> (Of course, it may have been weather-related as WHAS/Louisville was booming in
> on 840 at about the same time, though if their day and night sicgnals are
> different, I might have been 'catching them' while still at daytime pattern)
>
> -Paul Hopfgarten
> Derry NH
>
> ---- On Jan 20 "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com> wrote:
> >
> > For several days last week, I couldn't get a signal on WPTR, but they are
> > coming in stronger now. A moment ago, though, I heard some brief DX. It
> > sounded like an ID from 1540, KXEL, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Would have
> > been a great logging if I were into DXing.