WMAL

[Philip Miller Tate]

I hate to think of a time when a kid can't listen to an AM station on a homebrew crystal or one-transistor radio, but then I'm just a sentimental old dinosaur.

I guess mindlessly accessing Twitter on a disposable phone is WAY more exciting and 'relevant'.

Phil M1GWZ


Sent from my brain, via my fingers

Nan and Sandy Sanders <radiodog77 at pobox.com> wrote:

>I wonder if WMAL AM will be on the air after the land is sold off. 
>They have a complex antenna pattern ( 
>http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=73250  down load 
>pattern plots) that will take a few acres for an array. I don't think 
>AM radio will be a viable business in a few years.
>The local AM situation in my part of East Texas (Gregg County ) is 3 
>stations. A 1 Kw station owned by Access 1 ( I think ) with ESPN 
>programming and crap audio. Another 1Kw  station owned by a local guy 
>who also owns a class A FM station and another AM station. It has a 
>good signal, good programming and might sell enough commercials to 
>pay the power bill. The third station is about 1000 yards from me and 
>is owned by a guy who owns 3 AM stations and lives 300 miles away. 
>For the first year after I moved here it was no signal at all, 
>carrier no audio, carrier with hum, very short periods of audio and 
>for a few weeks white noise about 20 DB above the normal noise level 
>from around 1100 KHz to about 1900 KHz ( yes into the 160 meter band 
>). I was able to talk to the contract engineer ( who maintains around 
>100 stations in parts of 3 states) and showed him what the station 
>looked like on the spectrum analyzer. For about the last 3 months it 
>has had a good signal with fair audio. They transmit the audio of an 
>Internet radio station with ids and commercials inserted. I have no 
>idea if any body listens to the station. As one who grew up on AM 
>radio, I find the situation some what sad.
>      Sandy
>      WB5MMB
>
>
>At 05:16 PM 2/15/2015, lstoskopf at cox.net wrote:
>>I listen from Kansas to John Batchelor show almost every night on 
>>the WEB!  WMAL has the least intrusive commercial policy.  Who needs 
>>towers anymore with XM Radio in the car and streaming radio.  I was 
>>chatting here with the morning show AM host the other day, he has 
>>the highest rated morning show in Central and Western Kansas, town 
>>of 50K.  Claims to have 1,600 listeners.  K1N did much better!
>>
>>N0UU
>>
>>---- Karl W4KRL <W4KRL at arrl.net> wrote:
>> > Pictures from the AMRAD tour to WMAL in March 2011.[image: Inline
>> > image 3][image:
>> > Inline image 2][image: Inline image 1]
>> >
>> > *73 Karl W4KRL*
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Nan and Sandy Sanders 
>> <radiodog77 at pobox.com
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> > > http://www.radioworld.com/article/wmal-tower-site-up-for-sale/274462
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