Re: Ex-band stuff, including WTRY (Was Re: 1660 and 1on1)

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:54:49 -0400, "Douglas Broda" <dougbroda@mindspring.com> said:

> I have no idea why they got it -- I live in Troy, and while 'TRY's night
> signal is no boomer, it covers the market pretty well, better than any of
> the other stations with X-band allocations I know of.

Pretty much everybody applied.  The allotments were made based on a
computer model which computed each possible allotment plan and found
the one with the greatest overall reduction in nighttime
interference.  So, paradoxically, WTRY got an ex-band allotment
precisely because their signal on 980 is very good -- eliminating that
signal would make a lot of other 980s' signals better.

- -GAWollman

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