WBBR/WNEW

[M.Casey]

Not too many 50k AM's are directional toward Europe at night, so it makes 
sense that it's signal would be one of the best. Every time I've been up in 
Maine or Nova Scotia WNEW had one of the strongest nightime signals. I 
agree--Too bad it wasn't still music. Thanks for the comments.
Mark Casey K1MAP
Hampden, Mass


Day and night for 1130 NY here on Cape Cod.

I remember it as WNEW too.  In the '80s I would blast it out in the car at 
night on rides from metro-Boston to the Cape.

One summer evening I was tooling down Route 3 through the Plymouth pinelands 
under a hazy moon and had Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall version of "Sing 
Sing Sing" rocking the speakers like it was in the next room instead of 
coming from a transmitter 200 miles away.  I had the windows down and Gene 
Krupa's drumming was loud enough to blow the birds out of the trees.
When I went to Ireland in 1977, I had no trouble hearing WNEW playing 
then-current Bond movie song "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon.  Maybe 
not at next-room volume but still acceptable entertainment quality on my 
Realistic TRF portable radio with no external antennas or gadgetry.  One of 
the 4 or 5 best AM signals from the States.

Those sticks in the NJ salt marshes sure throw a signal far and wide.  Too 
bad it's just dull talk now instead of jazz, swing, adult standards etc.

Mark Connelly
South Yarmouth, MA