Re: WPZE / WEZE

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 11:13 PM 7/22/97 +0000, you wrote:
><<On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:47:15 -0400, mwaters@wesleyan.edu (Martin J.
Waters) said:
>
>>         The nighttime signal of WPZE is very poor. It doesn't cover
>> anything approaching the whole market at night. You can't listen to it
>> driving along big chunks of 128. I'm surprised anyone but religious /
>> ethnic / time broker-type broadcasters would have any interest in it,
>> unless WXKS or WILD wanted to upgrade.
>
>HOWEVER, if you think about 1260 as a combination play with 1200, it
>makes a lot more sense.  Even an upgraded 1200 signal will be highly
>directional to the east, and adding 1260 to that might make sense from
>the perspective of night-time coverage.
>
Given the most recent application that Fairbanks filed for WKOX, it makes
even more sense during the day. The proposed night signal from Mt Wayte
(three towers) would just crack 5 mv/m at the waterfront. The day signal
(two towers) sends a decent amount of power to the west (maybe not quite as
much as the current 10 kW ND signal from half-wave towers, but close). As a
result, the day signal at the waterfront would not be quite 4 mV/m. So WPZE,
which has a dynamite signal downtown, would be a perfect complement to WKOX.
And with the adjacent dial positions (forgetting WESX), the combo makes a
lot of sense. Now, if there were only something to program!

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