RE: WCBS off time...

[Adam Rivers <patriotsrule417@yahoo.com>]

I believe tonight we will get Alberta, maybe some
others.. there are pretty good aurora conditions
tonight.. look out for real good DX.


--- "Martin J. Waters" <mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu>
wrote:
> >Mr. Wollman wrote:
> >Some members of the National Radio Club were able
> to catch much more
> >interesting stations, including two Albertans, St.
> Lucia, and some
> >obscure Mexicans.
> <snip>
> 
>     This NRC member got the word very late (or maybe
> I should say *early*)
> and just caught the end of the silent period, from
> around 0445 until sign
> on at 0459:00. All I could hear on the Sony in the
> car in central Conn. was
> a very faint Spanish that I could not ID. It was
> playing non-rock sort of
> MOR sounding Spanish music. I didn't have enough
> brains to even check WFAN.
> It could be a late tonight, though, huddled around
> the GE Superadio III.
> Basically, my reaction was that 880 kHz was very,
> very clean by modern-day
> standards of "clear" channels. There really was
> almost nothing there. But,
> of course, there's not supposed to be, since I'm
> considerably inside the
> 0.5 groundwave contour, never mind the 0.1 or the
> skywave zone.
> 
>     BTW, WCBS just came back with the :59 after the
> hour headline sounder
> and the anchor did his thing with the headlines, as
> if they'd never been
> off. No reference to the silent period, and no
> immediate station ID. Do the
> rules still say they're supposed to give the legal
> ID as the first thing?
> They gave it in less than 60 seconds, so I'm just
> picking nits. I realized
> that it's rare in the 24/7/no silent period days in
> which we live to hear a
> station sign on at all, except whatever daytimers
> still bother to shut
> down.
> 
>     I always enjoy the fact that at least some of
> the staff at WTIC (AM)
> think they're supposed to do the legal ID even after
> cutting the carrier
> for about 1 second to change pattern twice each day,
> although it isn't done
> consistently. Even in the middle of Red Sox games,
> they'll play a fast
> voice ID right over the play-by-play after the
> switch. I've never, even in
> the past, heard this done generally when stations
> switch power/pattern. I
> don't think that's really required by the rules?
> 
> --
>
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> 
>  Have you patronized the skywave signal of an AM
> Class A station today?
> 
>
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> 
> 


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