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- Subject: Re: [IRCA] An Unhappy Birthday For WLW-AM
- From: David Faulkner <drdsfaulkner@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 01:32:58 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi All:
While I'm sorry to see the big stations go, they really are dinosaurs. The only way I can get a listenable signal out of WLW anymore is to listen in the car, and even then they will occasionally be overridden by a descending warbling tone that has to be coming from one of the neighbors' routers (if it's not coming from mine). If there was something I wanted to listen to on WLW I'd probably listen online. I personally don't think AM can be revitalized, no matter how many signals they put on it. The costs are getting too high to justify the return on investment, particularly when we start talking about highly directional stations. How many stations have cut their night power so they can be non-directional? My guess is, several hundred
73David
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:50 PM, Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Although I think this is a shame. However, this has been going on since the 1970s where more and more stations are allowed on clear channel frequencies and the long distance reception is getting harder and harder. This is no surprise. The FCC is changing the whole spectrum. They are repacking the TV dial and selling frequencies to the cel phone industry, so TV markets will be forced to cram more channels into a smaller area. It used to be back in the 60s, a person could easily listen to stations coast to coast with a clock radio. Today, hearing a station a 1000 miles away takes some effort. But we do have streaming in today's World and I use that a lot with my wifi radio.
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager
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