WBAL/WTIC

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:30:29 -0400 (EDT), Adam  Rivers <adamrivers@prodigy.net> said:

> Can someone tell me why at night WBAL comes in better than WTIC, when I am
> 28 miles away from WTIC?

You're right in WBAL's principal skywave service area, but you're
still getting 'TIC over groundwave, which means you're observing the
effects of the piss-poor ground conductivity in the region.  When I
lived in Vermont, the two were about equal in strength.  Here in
Boston 'BAL just blasts in; during the winter you can hear Baltimore
underneath WILD during critical hours.  (Which is why WILD is required
to power down to 1 kW CH.)

If you lived on the back side of WTIC's night pattern -- like Marty
Waters does -- then you'd be hearing WBAL splatter on top of WTIC's
groundwave.  (As I observed outside my grandmother's house in
Southington a few weeks ago.)

-GAWollman