WBBR/WNEW

[Kevin Vahey]

When 1510 was transmitting from Waltham it came in crystal clear in Bergen,
Norway at night.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 5:36 PM M.Casey <map@mapinternet.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>