[BC] Westinghouse at NAB - WPEN?

[brew@theMode.com]

I wrote:

>> That I don't know, but I find it hard to believe that a major market
>> station would go off the air for a few weeks, especially back then.

Keith Mayo wrote:

> I was a kid back in the 70's and used to listen to WPEN.  It did indeed
> go off the air for several days while a tower site overhaul occurred.
> When it came back on, the day signal was noticeably improved at my house
> in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Well, I stand corrected.  Randy and Keith have outvoted me, and with
actual events, not speculation!  Next time I run into Mark Olkowski in the
hallways of CBS I'll ask him about the old Westinghouse transmitter and
about the tower work, too, to see what he recalls.

Dave Gardiner wrote:

> WPEN has a CP to use all 3 towers at the West Philly site and run 25 kW
> day from there. They're running 21 kW nights from the WTEL/WWDB site in
> East Norriton.

Wow, they'll really have a strong signal in Downtown Philly!

Mike Venditti (from WRCP) and I once drove in a wide circle around WTEL's
site in the early seventies, listening to the signal.  The nulls were so
deep, and the array had such narrow bandwidth that the audio sounded like
SSB (really DSB, I guess) as you went through the nulls.

brew - Bruce Schiller at CBS-TV NY Master Control Maintenance and WA2ZST