WMAL

[Frank Gentges]

  I would expect that they would build a new AM site with the null 
outside the DC area on some cheap land.  Sort of arranged to shoot the 
main lobe into the whole DC area.  Now, when they go directional, the 
null seems to fall very near our lab in Loudoun county.

Frank


On 02/16/2015 01:29 AM, Nan and Sandy Sanders 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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