[IRCA] The difference between "dead" NC and CA AM stations

[Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx>]

It does seem strange to keep an AM license when under present 
circumstances there is nearly no possibility of such a facility ever 
become economically viable. Even keeping the frequency "warm" seems 
irrational when probably no combination of modulation, let alone 
"programming" would every make it work to earn more than a minor 
negative income, a loss.

Comes to mind the number of NC AMs that went silent and then surrendered 
license:

740 WMBL Morehead City 1 kW day
810 WCEC Rocky Mount 1 kW day
1080 WYCM Murfreesboro 1 kW day [+ activated CP for more power]
1180 WMYT Carolina Beach
1380 WWMG New Bern
1550 WBZQ  Greenville 1 kW day
1560 WTRQ Warsaw  10 kW day

+ Possibly a few others that I won't quote at the minute without a 
quick-check
on frequency and/or a check with the FCC AM Database.

AND the expectation of soon starting a Greenville (NC) AM logbook, afresh,
anew as though we'd just moved into NC for the first time.

AND the strange but real case of:

680 WRGC Sylva, NC 1 kW U2.

This is a real station, only about 350 miles from WPTF-680 Raleigh 50 kW
clear channel. Sylva is nestled in the western NC mountains and shielded 
from/
to WPTF-680. If one were to look at it on an AM station list, it would look
like an error; a typographical mistake pure and simple. Something from a
1930s archive of long-gone stations that somehow got misprinted into a
current frequential database.

Many times we've wheeled through Sylva on US-74 [not I-74] on a three-
day wandering out in w. NC. Listening to WRGC with only the most
minor wandering splotches of QRM from WPTF.

[US-74 is one of those routes that I've selected for a coast-to-coast
rideover. A counterpart, US-70, has been supplanted out here largely
by co-aligned I-40 "The Main Street of North Carolina." It's still a posted
route but only really as occasional black-on-white US route markers
along I-40.]

73 from The Long American Highway Into The Sunset,

Charlie

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Charles A & Leonor L Taylor
Greenville, North Carolina


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