I'm always amazed at your continual sunset skip catches Kaz. If there
was a DXers Hall of Fame for Sunset Skip Catches you'd be in the first
wave inducted. Looking forward to your autumn receptions.
Don K.
S.F. CA
neilkaz wrote:
To me, this is simply another indication that there are too many AM stations
crammed into the band and that some, with today's unfortunate economic
conditions for radio, simply aren't going to make it.
Regardless of what KMPH has for antenna patterns, their skip seemed to get out very well to the east as I caught them a few times here in IL via both sunset skip and once when they should have been on night pattern. This was on Phased BOGs aimed west and prior to KOA's IBOC.
73 KAZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Sent: Aug 20, 2010 9:57 AM
To: ABDX <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
mwdx <[email protected]>, [email protected], MWC yg
<[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [NRC-AM] Modesto AM KMPH (840) will turn off August 31
http://www.radio-info.com/news/modesto-am-kmph-840-will-turn-off-the-transmitter-august-31
It’s the 5-kw fulltime station that Pappas Radio of Modesto built to
essentially replace the 860 (KTRB) that it moved into the San Francisco market.
KMPH hit the air in July 2006, originally playing “Modern Standards” and then
in March 2008 switching to a conservative talk approached named Patriot 840.
Now Pappas Radio says it’s going to sign the station off at 9am Pacific time on
Tuesday, August 31. Jim Pappas blames that on “the ongoing national, state and
local economic downturn, combined with the insufficient growth in revenue” at
the 5-kw AM. He says “the company is no longer willing to fund” the station’s
operating losses. His letter ends with this promise – “when future
circumstances permit, KMPH-AM will return to the airwaves.” One problem for the
four-year-old station: very different day and night patterns. The daytime
signal goes Southeast and, with what the engineers call a tight null to
northwest, doesn’t hit
Stockton very well. The nighttime signal goes north and south, centered on
Modesto (radio-info.com via Artie Bigley, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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