[IRCA] WPBI 960 still testing

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WPBI 960 North Palm Beach, FL, is on again for the second consecutive day 
with the same small selection of music at 12:56 pm ET, Mar 17 
2006.  Periodically announcing also with a canned message, "WPBI North Palm 
Beach conducting equipment tests."

This second day of testing is after a period of silence since a one day 
test with same music and announcement on 2/27.  Prior to that there had 
been occasional periods with an open carrier.

As yesterday, the signal is moderate with local QRM.  What I suspect to be 
a single, short, repeating music selection soon makes IDing the station 
easy without call letters.

The FCC DB lists 1.2kW directional days, 0.25kW non-d nights.  The daytime 
2 tower theoretical antenna pattern is a cardioid centered toward the NW, 
side lobes to the north and west, and a null to the southeast, which seems 
consistent with the signal received here to the south.

WPBI was still on last night past the 6:30 local sunset power 
decrease.  Just how long they stayed on is not known as they faded into the 
collected muddle eventually.


Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) FL
[Ten-Tec RX-320D; LFE H-800; GAP DSP; ANC-4]


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