FW: RE: Daytime Skywave

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@earthlink.net>]

Garrett, Sorry about the re-post but I inadvertently posted this the first
time with no subject!



-----Original Message-----
From: Hakim Madjid [mailto:HMadjid@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:39 PM
To: bri@bostonradio.org
Subject: RE: Daytime Skywave


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)