I am willing to bet that the .1 really belongs to the new Jersey Shore Cat Country and not 107.3.
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WPUR gets .1 in NY book.
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Not possible in PPM. It simply was someone from NYC market who traveled to South Jersey and listened enough for it to appear.
Following up on Lance's post: each station that has a PPM encoder is issued that device in synch with the FCC's allocation... not the call letters, not the name, not the DJs, not the format. Each encoder is unique and there is no confusion.
If a person from New York City takes a day trip to Chicago and is wearing their meter and they listen to a Chicago station, that listening will be properly credited in the New York book data.
Of course, I want to see how the PPM is regarded at an air port security checkpoint.
Not as detached from the major market commotion as WPUR is a station in the Boston book, also with a 0.1. If my reading glasses are on right-side-up, they are the 5th most popular AM station in the Boston ratings.
WMVX is a daytimer, from Salem New Hampshire, with a directional signal that pulls in their coverage away from the Hub itself.
Maybe poor Charlie escaped the MTA and his wife gave him a PPM with his sandwich.
WMVX is a daytimer, from Salem New Hampshire, with a directional signal that pulls in their coverage away from the Hub itself.
Maybe poor Charlie escaped the MTA and his wife gave him a PPM with his sandwich.
I'm willing to bet that a few people actually found a way to muck this up.
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I was going to say the same; Cat Country 107.3 does very well during tropo. I spend some time along the Rhode Island coast during the summer, and every year, tropo brings WPUR as far north as Cape Cod. I wouldn't be surprised if this rating reflects tropo.
95.1 WAYV and 100.7 WZXL also come in well in central and northern NJ when there's tropo. I think I've seen WAYV show up in the NYC book too.
Oh the things I have gone thru TSA with, including spent ammunition ( there was a .22LR shell casing in my carry on for 4 years and about 40 trips thru TSA)... license plates for cars and motorcycles ( nope no sharp edges on those right!) Automotive polishing compounds in plastic bags laid flat inside my carry on, and a few other things. It is almost a game for me now to see what I can get past them.
One time flying back from FL I got pulled for what ended up being 3 bananas in my carry on. I thanked the TSA agent for the hand job he gave me during the pat down.
Now remember I hold a private pilots license, commercial drone pilots license, a CDL drivers license with haz mat and tank ratings, a TWIC card to get into oil terminals to load trucks with gasoline, plus gun permits. I have been checked by the FBI and other government agencies more than I can remember. I get fingerprinted almost yearly for one license or another.
So after they told me it was the fruit that confused them I went nuts on them, but in a way they could not do anything about it.
I asked them what was more dangerous, the fruit or the 2 laptops, the 3 fully charged lithium ion batteries for my drone, the fully charged drone remote, my cell phone, and all the cables in the bag that could be improvised weapons. For those not familiar with Lithium Ion batteries, when they have a problem, they burn and there is no easy way to put them out. You can't ship them by air or put them in a checked bag.... but a carry on.... no problem !
You can bring almost anything on an airplane... including a PPM because the people at the check points have the IQ of a fish
It looks just like a pager, if any of the TSA agents are old enough to remember such a thing. And you can buy your own used, useless PPM for about $30 here:
Nielson PPM 360 Meter
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Atlantic City is also a popular vacation spot for people in the NYC area.
Absolutely. The high rollers book a helicopter, go straight from Wall Street to their favorite casino in under an hour. All for $7000,
I remember, perhaps in about 1967, I took a helicopter shuttle from the PanAm Building to JFK. It was astoundingly beautiful to lift off from Midtown and fly over the East River to the airport. From there, straight to Guayaquil on Lufthansa.
Of course, security today would prohibit that sort of thing I suppose. And back then, it was not much more expensive than a car and they carried about 12 people and luggage.
LOL.. YOU would.. THIS doesnt surprise me, @MRBIboredop .. and i bet the TSA Agent wasnt too pleased with your comment
Not really...it's sort of a dump.
I Flew from Miami to Guayaquil on Ecuatoriana Airlines back in the fall of 1976. We made a stop in Bogotá and were warned not to deplane there. We picked up a few passengers and continued to Quito and then to Guayaquil.
I hear tell from some folks that WMID 1340 was a transistor favourite (along with local WGBB) at Jones Beach. That was in the WABC Sixties days, too. WMID regularly used to splash onto 1330's WPOW NYC in the day back in parts of southeast Queens.
And the water-path reception was reciprocal. In my one visit to Atlantic City on a free gambling shuttle bus from Minersville PA I used the free roll of issued quarters, ignored the slot machines, went out the back casino door, bought a giant sloppy sandwich and DXed on the beach. The Long Island stations blasted in -- WHLI, WLIM, WALK 1370 -- like the flipside of the same coin.
Lol -- local Queens candystore owner Abe Sklarsky (who bought the store and its 11 phone booths at the back of it from my Grandpa) used to take off a week every year and spend it in Atlantic City with his wife Minnie. I'm certain that they didn't drive all the way there just to DX, though.
And the water-path reception was reciprocal. In my one visit to Atlantic City on a free gambling shuttle bus from Minersville PA I used the free roll of issued quarters, ignored the slot machines, went out the back casino door, bought a giant sloppy sandwich and DXed on the beach. The Long Island stations blasted in -- WHLI, WLIM, WALK 1370 -- like the flipside of the same coin.
Lol -- local Queens candystore owner Abe Sklarsky (who bought the store and its 11 phone booths at the back of it from my Grandpa) used to take off a week every year and spend it in Atlantic City with his wife Minnie. I'm certain that they didn't drive all the way there just to DX, though.
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