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

["Douglas J. Broda" <dougbroda@mindspring.com>]

At 11:39 AM 10/14/98 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
>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.
>

Ah. That's almost logical (though that couldn't be the only reason for
x-band allocations, as some seem obviously geared at helping the station
getting the allocation).

Will WTRY and others be "forced" to the X-band?

- --Doug Broda (dougbroda@mindspring.com)

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