Re: WCAX/WVMT vs. WSYB

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@wavewizard.com>]

>>Dan Strassberg wrote:
>>You mean that WSYB has not been off the air for any extended stretches? I
>>had thought it was dark for quite a while at some point. I always considered
>>it to be a marginal station--just scraping by when it could do so and going
>>dark when it couldn't.

then Martin J. Waters replied:
>
>        I know nothing about WSYB, basically, except for its claim to be
>Vt.'s oldest station. My impression from vacationing up there off and on
>for eons is that it always was a going concern in the olden days. In the
>last 10 or 15 years, I don't know. I do know their signal, bad in the
>daytime 20 miles away, gives the impression that either the ground
>conductivity in them there hills is about 0.1, or their ground system
>hasn't been touched since 1930, or both.


I always thought of WSYB as being the "successful" Rutland AM.  Didn't WHWB
go dark for a while, then come back only to go dark again?  If I'm not
mistaken WHWB made a frequency switch sometime in the late 70s/early 80s,
from 1000 to 990, though remaining a 1kW daytimer.  Not sure of the reason
for the change.