Re: WPTR

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

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.