Re: [IRCA] WANB 1210 WaynesBURG PA

["Fred Schroyer" <freditor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys, A little more background on WANB. First, it's in WaynesBURG, PA in
the extreme SW corner of the state, not WaynesBORO, which is over east.
 
The old 1580 had been virtually unlistenable for the past 2 years or more.
For reasons never clearly explained to me, they made some change that
dropped the modulation level into the mud. The result was that, during local
critical hours, WHFS in Morningside, MD, would render WANB-1580 unlistenable
only a few miles from the XR, often right in Waynesburg itself! I have no
data at all, but I really wonder if anyone continued listening to WANB-AM.
They run parallel on 103.1 with a good-quality signal & sound, which is what
I see people listening to.
 
For a while, WANB had an app for 1190, but WVUS-1190 in not-far-away
Grafton, WV came on, and then I saw that WANB had applied for 1210. Not a
bad choice of freq, as WPHT in Philly usually doesn't show up here until
critical hours & the channel is silent otherwise. (Someone suggested 1200,
but the New Castle, PA station on 1200 is audible here.) And the move of the
XR site to Mt. Pleasant (Uniontown, PA) makes sense, to throw the new 5 kw
signal northward into the south side of Pittsburgh.
 
I have a friend who works @ WANB. I'll call him this week & see if I can
learn anything of interest, incl the v/s & poss interest in a DX test. 
 
Fred Schroyer 
Freelance Science Writer / Editorial Consultant 
Waynesburg, PA 15370 
(40 air miles S of Pittsburgh, 20 N of Morgantown, WV) 
freditor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
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