Re: WCRN and WNSH

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

At 07:28 PM 6/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I was checking the FCC actions and applications on the
>Elliott website link to the FCC a few days ago.  These
>have become so cryptic it's hard to tell what's going 
>on.  I  noticed applications for changes to WCRN AM 830
>in Worcester and WNSH am 1570

WNSH has been operating for years under special temporary authority. The CP
is for 500W with four short towers from a site at (if I recall) Endicott Jr
College. WNSH's owner (Keating Willcox, who sometimes posts to this group),
also owns 1570 in Taunton. I suspect that, before beginning construction, he
wanted to wait for the FCC to act on a proposal that would allow stations to
sell other stations rights to cause them interference. Since both stations
are under common ownership, Willcox could take money out of one pocket and
put it into another pocket. I imagine that WNSH could run 500W ND without
causing interference to WPEP that anyone who normally listens to either
station would care about--that is if anyone really does normally listen to
either station. As the FCC proposal was finally worded, it applied only to
FMs, and then the proposal was shot down. So, I suppose construction on
WNSH's new facilities will take place eventually or the FCC will pull the CP.

As for WCRN, all I know is the cryptic report form the FCC actions of a week
or so ago. The FCC has accepted for filing (but has not processed) an
application to change power. The notice did not specify day or night power.
I had thought that WCRN was one of those unusual station that operate with
higher power at night than during the day, but the record I saw shows 7 kW-D
5 kW-N DA-2. Each pattern uses two towers and both are modified cardioids.
The day pattern, aimed mostly north, protects WABC; the night pattern, aimed
mostly east, protects WCCO. Since the day pattern does not explicitly
protect WEEI, I had thought that the necessary protection resulted from use
of lower daytime power. Apparently, though, there is no overlap of 5 mV/m
contours even though WCRN's daytime signal to the east is quite substantial. 

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