Fred, Checking FCCINFO.COM, I dont see WANB-AM's transmitter site as having moved at all.
Paul On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Fred Schroyer <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, A little more background on WANB. First, it's in WaynesBURG, PA in > the extreme SW corner of the state, not WaynesBORO, which is over east. > > The old 1580 had been virtually unlistenable for the past 2 years or more. > For reasons never clearly explained to me, they made some change that > dropped the modulation level into the mud. The result was that, during > local > critical hours, WHFS in Morningside, MD, would render WANB-1580 > unlistenable > only a few miles from the XR, often right in Waynesburg itself! I have no > data at all, but I really wonder if anyone continued listening to WANB-AM. > They run parallel on 103.1 with a good-quality signal & sound, which is > what > I see people listening to. > > For a while, WANB had an app for 1190, but WVUS-1190 in not-far-away > Grafton, WV came on, and then I saw that WANB had applied for 1210. Not a > bad choice of freq, as WPHT in Philly usually doesn't show up here until > critical hours & the channel is silent otherwise. (Someone suggested 1200, > but the New Castle, PA station on 1200 is audible here.) And the move of > the > XR site to Mt. Pleasant (Uniontown, PA) makes sense, to throw the new 5 kw > signal northward into the south side of Pittsburgh. > > I have a friend who works @ WANB. I'll call him this week & see if I can > learn anything of interest, incl the v/s & poss interest in a DX test. > > Fred Schroyer > Freelance Science Writer / Editorial Consultant > Waynesburg, PA 15370 > (40 air miles S of Pittsburgh, 20 N of Morgantown, WV) > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > IRCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the > original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the > IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: [email protected] > > -- Sincerely, Paul B. Walker, Jr. www.onairdj.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
