Re: WPTR Signal Problems

[mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

>Douglas Broda wrote:
>That would be logical. CHIN-AM went 24 hours in January, 1984, BTW, per
>chinradio.com. (The transmitter was also moved from Missisauga to Toronto
>Island at the same time.) The site said that this was the result of
>negotiations with Canadian and US authorities... and my guess would be that
>discussed were WPTR as well as WSIV Syracuse, a 1kw daytimer.

        And the top thing to discuss, IMO, would have had to have been
KXEL, a Class A station that is supposed to be protected to the national
border by Canadian operations, under the not-so-new-anymore treaty.
        Actually, I've always wondered how WPTR even got to be where it is,
since it's actually way too close to Waterloo. It's not like the 680 or 850
stations in Boston being allowed because they're very a long way from San
Francisco and Denver.