Re: Would you believe Falmouth to Freetown?(was:Re: Sunday on Utopian Radio:Easy99.1)

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

At 07:02 PM 3/22/99 -0800, you wrote:

>Sunny 1430 hopes to upgrade its signal later this year because
>reception in most of Manhattan is not so great(who knows, maybe AM 620
>will be available soon :-). Anyway, Sunny 1430 hopes to go 24-hours
>once the signal is improved. But like Dan pointed out correctly,
>I am no engineer, so I am not sure what they mean by 'upgrade...:)
>
Mark: This one looks good. Liu also owns WPAT 930, and 1430 _could_ diplex
with 930. The 930 site in Clifton is in a much better spot from which to
cover the New York metro than is the site of the current 1430 sticks in
Union. WPAT has four towers; WNJR has only two, so using the 930 antenna
system to create a pattern that would work for 1430 (and would probably even
allow a power increase) looks to be relatively simple. Moreover, the WPAT
towers, which are top-loaded, are electrically 225 degrees at 1430. 225
degrees is the generally accepted limit on how high you can make AM towers
of conventional design without running into problems with the station's own
skywave interfering with the groundwave. Whether this upgrade gets done or
not would seem to depend almost entirely on how much money Liu is willing to
spend on 1430. He hasn't been known to be a free spender, but the ROI on
this upgrade looks favorable. He could probably get the work done for under
$500k and the station's value (stick value alone) should increase by several
times that figure. One possible problem--I don't think the Clifton site is
compatible with keeping Newark as the COL. The locals in Newark might
protest and tie him up forever at the FCC and in the courts.


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