WNNW Observation

[Laurence Glavin]

Once again the urban legend about WNNW consistently
running with daytime power 24 hours a day has come up in 
a thread.  You may have noticed on some other radio boards
that the FCC has been lowering the boom on stations
around the country for such violations as unlighted towers
or towers in need of painting, or unauthorized operation.
Well, some of the frequent offenders in these parts
have paid attention, and it appears that AM 800 HAS
been powering down at night lately, if not precisely
at sundown time.  For several weeks, off and on,
I've been observing slight differences in the signal
strength where I live for WNNW.  It's definitely
stronger during the day than well after sunset.
I wouldn't say you could set your watch by WNNW's
reduction
(you can with WRKO-AM, although I'm pretty sure I heard
the "thwump" at 5:30 am today...hey it's JUNE!)
but I'd assert that it happens sometime around local sunset.
Also behaving is WROL-AM 950, although they have a 
CP in to add nighttime service with 1000 watts DA-N;
they wouldn't want to jeopardize that with an FCC
notice of violation!


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