Re: your mail

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

I'm somewhat familiar with the Tampa Bay area and I 
don't think that Mulberry is just east of Tampa. I was 
in Tampa less than two weeks ago and stayed in north 
Tampa or Temple Terrace. My mom lives in an assisted-
living facility just east of Temple Terrace in 
Thonotosassa. I never heard of Mulberry. There is an AM 
760 in Brandon, which is east of Tampa (I think the 
calls are WBDN; the station programs in Spanish). WBDN 
runs 10 kW-D/1 kW-N DA-2. If I'm not mistaken the 
station uses five towers days and four towers nights and 
has a total of six towers. The TX site is in, I believe, 
Mango FL, which is north of Brandon but also east of 
Tampa. The AM stations east of Tampa but within the 
Tampa Bay market are 1010 in Seffner and 910 licensed to 
Plant City with TX in Dover FL, which is between Seffner 
and Plant City on State Route 574. East of Plant City is 
Lakeland which has at least two AMs.
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> Paul Hopfgarten writes:
> 
> 
> >I was driving on Rte  3 in the Plymouth/Campton NH area today (5/1) about
> >12noon checking out radio....and I picked up one station that I believe may
> >have been a daytime skip.....780 WPNP in Mulberry FL.
> 
> >I definetly heard an ad for the "Sun-Sentinal" and and they gave the
> website
> >as 'sunsentinal.com', and when I got home, it was the Tampa FL
> Sun-Sentinal.
> >Now, I looked up all the 780s in the USA according to 'Radiostation.com'
> and
> >found WPNP (I thought they said WCNE, but these calls were the closest that
> >I found on the web site, but definetly 780).
> 
> >The did mention that they're 1450 and 780, so I checked and WSPS in
> Sarasota
> >seems to be the closest. Can anyone confirm a 780/1450 combo in Florida (or
> >anywhere for that matter)?
> 
> >If so.....one heck of a pickup in a rented 2001 GMC Sonoma with a factory
> >radio...
> 
> There is no newspaper in the Tampa area called the Sun-Sentinel. The major
> two major papers in that city are the Tampa Tribune and the St. Petersburg
> Times. Not that that the Sun Sentinel couldn't be placing ads on a Tampa
> area radio station, however.
> 
> Mulberry is a suburb located just east of Tampa.
> 
> I have to agree with Dan that it's highly unlikely that you heard 780 in the
> Tampa area. I dug up some info on the station on the Tampa Radio internet
> discussion board.
> 
> First of all, WPNP 780 is a new station, just went on the air in the past
> few weeks. They have filed to change their call letters to WREY. They are
> running 250 Watts DA-1 down there, which is another reason it is unlikely
> that you have heard them way up here on some sort of daytime skip. Like I
> said anything is possible, but...
> 
> 73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
> 
> 73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
> 
>