[Scan-DC] WKAJ, 1120 kHz and 10 kilowatts, in Saint Johnsville, Ne w York

[Blair Thompson]

It's funny you should mention that. They weren't running any commercials at all, at least not until just about dawn, when I heard the first one. They were playing nothing but oldies. I was wondering how they could make any money doing that. 

What caught my ear about them was that I could not recall how long it has been since I heard an AM radio station playing songs.

I landed on them by default. When I turned my radio from FM to AM, WKAJ was on the same position on the dial as WTOP.

From: Eric Hoehn <eric.hoehn1 at gmail.com>
To: Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] WKAJ, 1120 kHz and 10 kilowatts, in Saint Johnsville, Ne w York
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:44:14 -0400

You shouldn't have heard WKAJ here either.  They are supposed to be 400 watts at night with a directional patter that goes mostly North.  Here is the pattern from the FCC web site.

http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1558314-121479.pdf

Either they neglected to reduce power and change patterns at sunset or maybe you picked them up after Midnight during the allowed experimental period from Midnight to 6 AM.  But you aren't supposed to run commercials in experimental mode, so if you heard any commercials then it was a problem.

KMOX in St. Louis is 50 Kw non directional on 1120 and everyone has to protect them.  That's why WUST goes off at night.

Eric
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