WPTR/WDCD

[Kevin Vahey]

Donna

I remember a night in 1967 when Waxy at WNEU was suddenly flooded by
callers in Ontario - and it was confirmed.

How a closed-carrier AM station on 560AM could show up 400 miles away
is a mystery but it happened.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/2012 1:12 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>>
>> The calls are available as of now
>>
>> WPTR was a classic paradox - popular at night ( in non-billable hours
>> ) in New England and Quebec but a hard sell in the Albany area.
>>
>
>
> Reminds me of WMEX, which had a night signal that we used to joke was "#1 in
> trees and fish"-- you could hear it in the woods of Maine and it came in
> really well in Newfoundland.  And when I was at WCAS, with its 250 wonderful
> watts, the signal skipped beautifully down to Provincetown on a regular
> basis.  I used to get requests from P-Town all the time.