Attention all AM DX-ing fans!

[Peter Q. George]

During the WBZE days, I believe, during their sign-off, they said to listeners "Stand by WBZ/Boston, coming up next!" (*carrier dumped*). 

It that true?


Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"

radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:

> From: Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Subject: Re: Attention all AM DX-ing fans!
> To: "Martin Waters" <martinjwaters@yahoo.com>, "Jr.Paul B. Walker" <walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com>
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:32 AM
> WWGB's day pattern supposedly
> protects WBZ during critical hours as
> well as during the remainder of daylight. The pattern does
> indeed have
> a broad, deep minimum to the northeast. When WWGB first
> went on the
> air (60's?), its calls were WBZE. Supposedly, the calls
> were selected
> so that people in the listening area, which includes
> Washington DC,
> would think they were listening to WBZ day and night
> because WBZ has a
> killer nighttime signal there.
> 
> As for KCTA, back in the '40s, when it was KWBU and I think
> was 50 kW
> ND all day (the FCC hadn't yet invented critical hours),
> Westinghouse
> tried to get the FCC to force KWBU to sign off at Boston
> sunset, which
> would have been 3:15PM in south Texas in December. I know
> that during
> critical hours, KCTA's daytime skywave really gets out;
> I've seen DX
> reports from places about 1000 miles from Corpus Christie.
> 
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> eFax 1-707-215-6367
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Waters" <martinjwaters@yahoo.com>
> To: "Jr.Paul B. Walker" <walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Attention all AM DX-ing fans!
> 
> 
> With the now-explained unusual propagation conditions, the
> possible
> stations are several -- especially a few 50 kW daytime-only
> stations.
> Like, WWGB, Indian Head, Md., 50 kW, DA. That's a regular
> visitor at
> my home on winter mornings -- as late as 8 or 9 a.m. That
> station
> should have a critical hours license.
> 
> A couple additional stations on 1030 kHz are required to
> reduce power
> during critical hours -- including daytimer WBGS, Point
> Pleasant,
> W.V., 50 kW day, directional; 2.9 kW critical hours,
> non-DA.
> 
> Maryland and West Virginia are the closest to Boston of the
> stations
> on 1030.
> 
> The earliest time I could find that any station would be
> switching to
> critical hours power was 3:30 p.m., EST, awhile later than
> when I
> thought I heard the audible signal go away. Maybe what I
> heard was
> just a fluctuation.
> 
> The other with critical hours operation is WNVR, Vernon
> Hills, Ill.
> (just outside Chicago). The license is 10 kW day, 3.2 kW
> critical
> hours, 0.12 kW night, DA-3. It has an application pending
> for 27 kW
> day, 8 kW critical hours, 0.21 kW night, DA-3.
> 
> And in the micro-trivia department: A very old daytime-only
> station on
> 1030, KCTA, Corpus Christi, Texas, 50 kW, is licensed to
> operate from
> sunrise at Boston to its local sunset. Somewhere in the
> mist of radio
> history there's a story that goes with that, I'm sure.
> 
> 
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