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Old November 25th 03, 05:53 AM
Mark Roberts
 
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Royce Dean had written:
| I'll agree 100%. They sound good. I like the reverb too! I think their
| pattern change occurs at west coast sunset, where they protect KFBK
| Sacramento, I think.

Yes -- it (then-WCKY) was strong in eastern and central Missouri
for a couple of hours after sunset until the switch was flipped.

The reference to reverb is amusing -- in the early 1970s I recall
WCKY as an easy-listening station -- with reverb! Mix in a little
groundwave/skywave phase cancellation, which one occasionally got
for WCKY near St. Louis, and you got quite the ethereal effect!

That's only the *second* most inappropriate use of reverb I've ever
heard -- the most inappropriate was when KPRC in Houston
was a news/talk station in head-on competition with KTRH -- and
used reverb in 1985 and part of 1986!

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separate buildings." -- John Kelso, Austin American-Statesman