Interesting observation about the difference in the two frequencies. One would expect the antenna system to be really close in both cases, but you've found that it is not predictable.
That's Pretty Darn Cool Micro 1700!
We had overhead telephone lines untill last year, when thy buried them you could get all kinds of stations from several states away just driving around the neighborhood during the day. It seems that the huge cable company carried these stations and in there system and broadcasts them for a fee for the radio stations. Anyone with a license can have them broadcast your licensed coverage for you. Somehow they were using part of the telephone wiring to do so untill the phone company buried their lines. The cable company came a few weeks later and added a wire to their lines and it went away, but there were minivans covered with antennas driving around here for week. Sometimes the big guys pirate off each other as well. It is the same for lots of emergency communications, I know the railroad company is the main broadcaster for fire and police communications here from their lines and antennas alongside the railway grant.
WNZK in Detroit does this. It's 690 days, 680 nights.
Hi there someguy23475!
I heard about another one. CHYR 710 days
became CHIR 730 nights. It must have been
two different sites because there were two
different callsigns(?).
I don't know the location. It went off the air
in 1993.
Best Wishes
Bruce, MICRO1690/1700
I don't remember 710/730 (I was born in 1984 and wasn't really into radio back then), but I do know it converted to 96.7 FM. The station was and still is licensed to Leamington, ON (SE of Windsor/Detroit), but I couldn't tell you exactly where the AM transmitter was. I know they moved the FM recently. Canada as a whole seems to be slowly abandoning the AM band. In some cases, they'll give up a decent Class B or even clear channel for a puny Class A or D FM transmitter.
There is a couplet in Tacoma called the Z-twins, KZIZ and KRIZ broadcasting what programmers call Urban content on two different frequencies at the high end of the dial - 1480 and 1520, if memory serves... Each are somewhat directional, ZIZ headed northeast and RIZ south, IIRC.
Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins NFL franchise tried to get better coverage for his football broadcasts by buying two AMers and an FM and simulcasting as the Red Zebra Network.
Seems Like this Station only runs on Saturdays. It is back.
I will see when it shuts off.
Talked To The Operator Of Modern Rock 94.5 (the station that the Pirate was retransmitting)
He had no clue about this Station himself. Couldn't Have talked to A Nicer Guy.
So as to who is operating this, is still a mystery.
Around here, in the St. Louis area, the dial is always the same. There are never any part 15ers or pirates, and the licensed stations are so dull (except for about 2-good hours a week on NPR). I would love to run across a part 15 station or a pirate so I could sit back and eat snack food like a sports spectator watching the action. I would probably remain anonymous and refrain from contacting a pirate, because of course I am one of the legal operators, but what other people do can be entertaining.