[IRCA] AS LONG AS YOU ASKED

[Pete Taylor <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I was at WQAM doing the all night show several lifetimes ago, we  
were 5000/1000 non-directional and could go to 5kw at 4am. The DA-2s  
such as WIOD had to wait until sunrise to go to daytime facilities. I  
always made a ritual out of it warning people to turn down their  
audio because they were about to get blasted. It was always  
comforting and reassuring to look out the window and see the big fat  
tower sitting there right on the water in Biscayne Bay. We were  
supposed to monitor off air, naturally, but the CE had cut the bass  
so it always sounded thin on good equipment, so I often listened off  
the console instead. Naughty naughty - but an alarm would sound if  
the carrier went off so no problem. We did have some listenership in  
the early mornings around the Caribbean during the winter. Anyway,  
the FCC changed this some time after I left in 1957 so 'QAM had to  
wait until LSR to go to 5kw. DX historians (and even curmudgeons) are  
welcome to specify the year this policy changed.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
ICF2010 + Kiwa air core loop
DX398; Palomar loop





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