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

[Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC]

nice!  


Andy, it's televeesion without pictures... and the programming is better, more varied, and in many cases, thoughtful!

Wow, WUST - "Soul Bandit"!... had no idea they were still around... that takes me back to high school... and that was at least ten years ago ;)... heck, it was probably tapes from back then that they were playing!  Yes, been a long time since I've heard music on AM too.


When I was in about the fifth grade, I had one of those little germanium rocket radios... lived near Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring and I used to DX a station on it called WTOP... was the only thing I could pick up!  A guy called Lee Shepherd played jazz in the evening, followed by American Airlines' Music 'til Dawn with Terry Hourigan.


Great thread!  Thanks for the memories, guys...


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> From: Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net>
>To: Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> 
>Cc: "Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>; "b_thom at juno.com" <b_thom at juno.com> 
>Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 1:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] WKAJ, 1120 kHz and 10 kilowatts, in Saint Johnsville,	Ne w York
> 
>
>If you can use an app to hear it you can bet it will soon be encrypted. 
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>Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What is this thing you call "AM radio"? What app do I use for it?
>> 
>> :)
>>> From: b_thom at juno.com
>>> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:13:21 +0000
>>> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] WKAJ, 1120 kHz and 10 kilowatts, in Saint Johnsville,    Ne     w York
>>> 
>>> 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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