Today's L(garble)T(garble)A(garble)R

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

In the midst of the mumble-fest that was today's LTAR (12/23)...
a show that will most assuredly never be web-sreamed...the subject of 
WSNR-AM 620's pattern was described.  Setting aside the irony of a 
barely discernible discussion about the nulls in that station's
pattern making the broadcast signal unintelligible, I wish to submit 
MY observation about a New England-based station with the same problem:
WHYN-AM 560 in Springfield, MA.
I frequently visit Western Massachusetts and upstate NY, and travel via
the Mass Pike and once in a while during foliage season Route 20.
WHYN-AM's null (or should I say nullS) seems to go on for miles.  My
theory is that for a very long time, it broadcast with 1,000 watts 
days then increased its daytime power a couple of decades ago to 5,000
watts.  In the interim, a 560 was built in Catskill, NY.  So I surmise
the pattern had to protect WMCA in The Apple and the 560 in Catskill.
Adam is too young to obseve this phenomenon while driving, but have 
any others out there in BRIGland had the same experience?

Laurence Glavin





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