Re: [IRCA] WGR 5-5-0 in Buffalo

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

bill kral wrote:
> I didn't know WGR operated with a different night time pattern from
> the daytime one.When I lived in Toronto in the late 70s when their
> format was oldies they did not switch from day to night as there was
> no noticable change in signal strength or interuption in the switch
> from day to night.Bill im BC

They were switching, even then - it's just that you happened to be 
living in the direction where their nighttime signal was as strong as 
(maybe even stronger than) their day signal.

WGR is non-directional by day; its night pattern is unchanged since the 
1950s, when they upgraded from 1 kW to 5 kW at night. It's a figure-8 
aimed north-northwest (at Toronto) and south-southeast. It has a very 
deep null to protect WKRC in Cincinnati and another to protect WDEV in 
Vermont and CFNB in New Brunswick. (Everything else on 550, like Rhode 
Island, came later.)

s
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