Re: [IRCA] WAGL-1560

[John Stephens <dx-tips@xxxxxxx>]

I remember the DX Tests I arranged from them back in the 90's.  Boy, were they well-heard!  I think at least one other test was arranged by others, with similar reults.

Mr. Phillips was a pleasure to work with in arranging these tests, and extremely accommodating to DXers.
 
73 - JD Stephens

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 Message: 7
 Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 22:51:32 -0400
 From: Steve Francis <amdxmail@xxxxxxx>
 
 
 Daytimer WAGL-1560 Lancaster, South Carolina, once a
 continent-spanning best bet for the Palmetto State, is no
 more.  Longtime owner B. Len Phillips Jr. died in
 September at 77, and the license has recently been turned in
 and the station deleted.  
 
 DX test and sunrise receptions on the West Coast were
 commonplace at one time, with KPMC Bakersfield off
 nightly.  WAGL operated with 10 and later 50
 kilowatts.  
 
 A DX test on October 18, 1993 brought in a report from Paul
 Ormandy in Oamaru, New Zealand.  Len was quite pleased
 and included a copy of Paul's report as part of the verie
 package.  
 
 There's a YouTube posting of a 1980 recording of Len doing
 the sign-off; toward the end you can hear traces of the
 sign-off of long-gone WTRQ in Warsaw, North Carolina.
 
 Steve Francis
 Alcoa, Tennessee
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