Re: [IRCA] KWMT-540 Ft Dodge IA is NDA right now!

[Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: George Sherman <georgesmn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:43 PM
Subject: [IRCA] KWMT-540 Ft Dodge IA is NDA right now!

If you live NW, N, or NE of Ft Dodge, IA, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity! Not sure how long this will continue, started Mon morning. May be tower painting? 73, George S., MN
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Nope, just doing maintenance at the transmitter site.  In fact, they were off completely for a few brief minutes yesterday morning.  Midday announcer Duane Murley tipped off the listening audience (which included myself and Ernie Wesolowski) that they would be off starting at 1030 CLT.  When they came back on, they were noticably weaker, almost as if they were running their night pattern.  But if they're being heard better to the north now, it would seem that they are ND for the time-being, after all.  Normally, KWMT has to "suck in" its daytime signal to the north to protect the Canadian border (when I travelled north through western Minnesota during the day on 8/2/2008, I noticed that KWMT was gone by the time I got to Montevideo, which is 100 miles due west of the Twin Cities).  The groundwave signal is much better to the south, although the legendary (i.e., early 1960s) days of being heard during the daytime in Indianapolis, Amarillo, and
 Denver are LONG gone.  Glenn Hauser sez he can get them during the day in Enid, OK, but I'd be shocked if their signal can reach any further south than there.  Indeed, when I did a daytime bandscan from Branson, MO on 11/6/2010 using Ernie's car radio, KWMT was mostly inaudible, beating against another weak signal which I assume must have been the Clarksville, Tenn. station. 
 
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska  
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