[IRCA] WLAC-1510 pattern changes

[Steve Francis <amdxmail@xxxxxxx>]

Top-of-the-hour unattended timer recordings this weekend turned up a potentially helpful discovery.

Nashville sunrise and sunset times this month are both at ToH - sunrise at 8:00 EST and sunset at 6:00 EST.  WLAC (the past two days, anyway) has made its pattern changes right at ToH, at about 59:56.  This I could barely believe: in each case, there is about four seconds of WLAC being totally OFF the air, carrier and all. Right before 8am EST yesterday, I was treated to the usual local-like WLAC signal, then a quiet but perfectly readable "You're listening to WWBC, Cocoa-Merritt Island ... ", followed by WLAC again.  Ten hours later, at 5:59:56 pm EST, it was a shouted "ESPN Deportes Radio!", i.e. WRRD Waukesha WI.

Both WWBC and WRRD are relogs, but I never expected to hear them in the clear, if only for four seconds. It felt like a 1974 Monday morning. This is encouraging news if WLAC's dedication to exact times continues. Months where Nashville sunrise and/or sunset times are on the quarter-hour or half-hour will be of little use, but this month both are at ToH.  

Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee




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