Re: MetroWest Daily News story on WKOX

[dan.Strassberg@att.net]

A link to the WKOX story can be found here:
http://www.townonline.com/metrowest/news/business/index.h
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Apparently WRCA also wants to move to the WUNR site. 
There have long been rumors that WRCA would move from 
its current site. That's truly too bad because WRCA has 
a great signal and WUNR does not. Perhaps, though, WRCA 
can get a power increase from Saw Mill Brook Parkway--a 
distinct possibility because the story talks about 
replacing WUNR's two towers with five towers. One 
possibility would be for WUNR and WRCA to share one pair 
of towers and WKOX to use the other three. That 
arrangement would not permit either WUNR or WRCA to 
increase power, however.

The story also says that WKOX's daytime operation would 
continue from the present Framingham site except with 50 
kW. Now I have a few questions: WKOX's CP to go to 50 kW 
day and night from its present site shows a day pattern 
that appears to be designed to limit critical-hours 
skywave radiation toward CFGO Ottawa to its present 
value. Clearly, if WKOX were to operate ND days, or even 
use its present towers with 50 kW-D DA, there would be a 
huge increase in CH skywave toward CFGO.

It seems as if WKOX's engineers may have become overly 
conservative as a result of their misadventure with an 
application (never accepted by the FCC as far as I know) 
to move to the WEEI site. This would have caused huge 
prohibited overlap with WESX. From the WUNR site, using 
50 kW, that might be a concern. I haven't tried running 
the numbers, so I'm not certain, although overlap with 
WESX would certainly be less of a problem than it would 
have been from Wellington Circle. In any event, I wonder 
whether the idea might not be for WKOX to run CH and N 
from Saw Mill Brook Parkway and to use less than 50 kW 
CH. Could WKOX be planning to apply for 50 kW-D DA-D 
from Framingham, 10 kW-ND CH from Newton, and 50 kW DA-N 
from Newton? I guess we'll have to wait until the FCC 
accepts the applications for tender. 
> It should be at www.townonline.com/metrowest/business
> 
>  -Sean