Re: [IRCA] The difference between "dead" NC and CA AM stations

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chaz:

Thanks for the info on Smyrna NC on 680.  I always wondered how they managed to get a station on 680 with WPTF so close.  Back in the 'Good Ole Days' I heard WMBL-740 every so often in the
1950-52 period (from Iowa that is).

73

don



Charles A & Leonor L Taylor wrote:

> It does seem strange to keep an AM license when under present
> circumstances there is nearly no possibility of such a facility ever
> become economically viable. Even keeping the frequency "warm" seems
> irrational when probably no combination of modulation, let alone
> "programming" would every make it work to earn more than a minor
> negative income, a loss.
>
> Comes to mind the number of NC AMs that went silent and then surrendered
> license:
>
> 740 WMBL Morehead City 1 kW day
> 810 WCEC Rocky Mount 1 kW day
> 1080 WYCM Murfreesboro 1 kW day [+ activated CP for more power]
> 1180 WMYT Carolina Beach
> 1380 WWMG New Bern
> 1550 WBZQ  Greenville 1 kW day
> 1560 WTRQ Warsaw  10 kW day
>
> + Possibly a few others that I won't quote at the minute without a
> quick-check
> on frequency and/or a check with the FCC AM Database.
>
> AND the expectation of soon starting a Greenville (NC) AM logbook, afresh,
> anew as though we'd just moved into NC for the first time.
>
> AND the strange but real case of:
>
> 680 WRGC Sylva, NC 1 kW U2.
>
> This is a real station, only about 350 miles from WPTF-680 Raleigh 50 kW
> clear channel. Sylva is nestled in the western NC mountains and shielded
> from/
> to WPTF-680. If one were to look at it on an AM station list, it would look
> like an error; a typographical mistake pure and simple. Something from a
> 1930s archive of long-gone stations that somehow got misprinted into a
> current frequential database.
>
> Many times we've wheeled through Sylva on US-74 [not I-74] on a three-
> day wandering out in w. NC. Listening to WRGC with only the most
> minor wandering splotches of QRM from WPTF.
>
> [US-74 is one of those routes that I've selected for a coast-to-coast
> rideover. A counterpart, US-70, has been supplanted out here largely
> by co-aligned I-40 "The Main Street of North Carolina." It's still a posted
> route but only really as occasional black-on-white US route markers
> along I-40.]
>
> 73 from The Long American Highway Into The Sunset,
>
> Charlie
>
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> Charles A & Leonor L Taylor
> Greenville, North Carolina
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