strange pickup on 540 last night

[Dan.Strassberg]

What you actually heard, then, was WFLF Pine Hills (I think, right
near Orlando). Sounds as if they do the legals for the individual
stations in the trimulcast at a different time than when you caught
the signal. Excellent catch! WFLF is 50 kW-D and something quite close
to 50 kW at night (44 kW, maybe?), but both the day and night patterns
(six towers D and N, IIRC) are quite directional east to west with
little coming north day or night--but especially night. There are
50-kW ND Class As on 540 in SK and somewhere in Mexico. Florida has to
protect both, so the signal is restricted to the northwest and
southwest.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
To: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@mail.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:53 PM
Subject: strange pickup on 540 last night


> Last night while driving back from the Cape I hit the scan button on
> AM around 10 PM and it stopped on 540 with a clear signal.
>
> At the hour the ID was WFLA Tampa-Orlando-Tallahasse
>
> HUH?
>
> WFLA is on 970 out of Tampa
>
> But a quick check on radio-locator shows me I was getting WFLF out
> of
> the Orlando area but they call themselves 540 WFLA
>
> http://www.540wfla.com/main.html
>
> In any event with their night pattern there was no way that signal
> should be heard 1500 miles north
>
> http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFLF&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
>
> I am guessing they were on day pattern
>
> http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFLF&service=AM&status=L&hours=D