[Swprograms] WBCQ Surprising Schedule Change?

["William Martin" <wgmartin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all!

Was really surprised by what I heard on WBCQ late Friday night
(UT Saturday 3/18/06). I had been tuning in WBCQ on 7415 kHz
just about every night around 11 PM local (0500 UT) to see how the
reception for "Amos & Andy" & "Herald of Truth" was, and just about
every evening lately the signal here in St. Louis had pretty abruptly
faded out into the noise sometime just before 0500 UT. But this
day it was suddenly perfectly fine and clear, all thru A&A and into
the HoT timeslot. But there was no HoT program audio at first! Then,
several minutes into the time, the audio suddenly came on for a
short period, and then cut out again. It finally came on again (always
in the middle of words) near the end of the slot, and then was
faded out by the board operator (that is, obviously turned down
by a pot) at 0531 UT. This surprised me, because I figured that
WBCQ owed the HoT people a full program airing after the trouble,
so I thought they'd re-start it from the beginning now that things
were working again.

But what I heard next astounded me. Brother Stair came on!!!!
Bro Stair on WBCQ?!?!?!?!?!? What the devil was going on?
Anyway, a regular Bro Stair broadcast began and was still on
when I next checked at 0605 UT, but by then it had a terrible hum
accompanying the program audio. I do not know how long 7415 kHz
stayed on the air with B.S., as I then went to sleep.

Then the next night, when there was something worth actually
listening to on WBCQ on 7415 kHz at 0500 UT (3/19/06) --
the Tom & Darryl Show -- the WBCQ 7415 kHz signal was lost in
the noise again here in St. Louis.

So here's another example of propagation becoming good just at
the wrong day/time! It let us hear an operations mixup and not
the better stuff on the next day.

So, is Bro Stair now a regular "feature" on WBCQ at 0530 UT, at
least weeknights? I guess Allan can use the money, but it's a
sad comedown from his plans to have alternative late-night
programming on 7415. Of course, with propagation as it is,
I would like to know just *who* can hear it at that time on
any regular basis. His comments on earlier AWWW programs have
indicated that Western US areas get a good signal after it fades
out here in the Central US. Anybody out there with any comments
on that?

73, Will


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