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[IRCA] R.I.P. WAGL-1560

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WAGL was a regular visitor every afternoon into central Fla giving the 5kw  
daytimers in Melbourne and Inverness fits during critical hours.  They ran  
a four tower array giving them about 270 kw to the south
Several times over the past 20 years I picked them up in Grand Turk  and on 
the north coast of the Dominican Republic.  they squirted out  about 20 kw 
to the NNE toward Charlotte.
It was a sad road to the end.  The station tried country, classic  country 
and Music of your life in the final years supplemented by religious  
programs in the morning, but nothing really worked.  They were into a web  presence 
early on selling a business directory to local businesses.  I  would guess 
the electric bill was close to 3 grand a month.  Len's  demise and that of 
the station were on a parallel path.  Sad there was no  one to carry on but 
Lancaster has almost become part of the metro of Charlotte  and the metro 
FM's have killed local radio in the area.
As DXers we have lost a great target and it will be missed.
 
 
In a message dated 5/12/2015 9:16:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bobgale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

 
They also ran a DX Test in, I believe, 1976, likely during a WQXR  silent 
period. Easily heard, nice QSL.
 
Bob Galerstein  WB2VGD
Monroe, NY
 
 
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:12 AM, Rick Dau wrote:  



Their DX test on Jan. 28, 1990 got out exceptionally  well.  I had a 
cassette recording of that test that was at nearly  armchair level.  They played 
"Dixie" as part of that broadcast,  and WAGL's 50,000 watts were enough to 
cause splatter on 1550 and 1570 at my  QTH in southwest Iowa.  With WBSC-1550 
having been gone for a  while now, there's two legendary top-of-the-dial 
voices in the Palmetto  State that are now just memories.  

73,
Rick  Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska  EN21AF
Http://www.dxworld.com/bcblog.html

> Date: Tue, 12 May  2015 05:31:22 -0700
> From: dx-tips@xxxxxxx
> To:  irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] WAGL-1560
> 
>  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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