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

[anastasi@javanet.com]

"Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com> wrote on
 Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:31 PM

> 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, not being an engineer I have no idea what the word "null" means or
even a clue about what you just said in plain English.  :)  But I can tell
you this though.  I live in Amherst, which is roughly 18-20 miles northeast
of Springfield, and WHYN-AM comes in with static during the day, and is
non-existent at night.  When we first moved out to this area code back in
1985, we lived in South Deerfield for two years.  South Deerfield is about
13 miles north of where I am now, and up there I wouldn't have even known
WHYN-AM existed if I wasn't a radio DXer.  But for some reason, as Adam
noted, WHYN is consistently the highest rated AM radio station out here.

Brian