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- Subject: Re: [bdxc-news] WWBC 1510 kHz Cocoa, Florida
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:02:13 +0000 (UTC)
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Fair reception tonight of WWBC, Cocoa FL on 1510 kHz with gospel music and IDs with FM frequencies, plus ID as "The Christian Voice of Brevard" at 0359 UTC. Heard from 0320 tune-in to past 0430 UT. First time heard at this QTH. 73, (Alan Pennington, Sony 7600GR plus indoor loop, Longton, Lancashire, UK, 0440 UT Sept 14, bdxc-news iog via DXLD)
Would this station be on daytime power because of Hurricane Florence?? Any of our US members advise on this? (WWBC 1510 still audible here at 0540 UT in Lancashire) 73 (Alan Pennington, ibid.)
It`s a 50 kW Daytimer! (and reduced to 25 during 2-hour buffer Critical Hours). Should not be on air at all after sunset. Cocoa is rather far from H. Florence track/influence, so stretching it as an emergency situation there. Pattern is very broad centered on the southeast, i.e. mostly into the Atlantic, null roughly toward WLAC, so coverage up the coast should still be marginal. New NRC AM Log, closed in early August, had news/talk format for it, not gospel.
There is a rather convoluted history mixed with WMEL, which moved format from 1060 to 1510:
http://cflradio.net/1510_WWBC_AM.htm
FM translators run 24 hours of course, so programming all night is available. ``The Christian Voice of Brevard`` on 1510 goes back to 2016 per searches.
Was it again being heard the next night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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