Re: WJLT

[Martin Waters <martinjwaters@yahoo.com>]

--- Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
>I've heard 1060 on until at least midnight.
<snip>

   This all sounds like part of the epidemic (getting
even worse recently, IMO, than it has been for the
past 10 or more years) of stations just staying on
illegally at night.

   On the FCC web site, presuming the web site data is
more or less accurate, WJLT has a CP for 0.009 kW at
night from its present site. The signal I hear from
them at 10 or 11 at night in mid-winter must be more
than that, plus this is only a CP. The post-sunset
authority powers are not on the web site and I don't
have my National Radio Club AM Log here, but: As far
as I can see, WJLT should be using some post-sunset
power with a cutoff two hours after sunset at
Nashville, which I think is usually about three hours,
no more, after sunset here -- or around 7:45 January
and 8:15 February, EST. The PSSA could be anything up
to the full licensed 250 watts.

   My listening to WBIX since it went on with its
higher power has been that it cut down to its lower
power in the two steps, on schedule, and signed off
when it was supposed to, although Garrett says
otherwise. And I haven't listened to them in the last
couple months. As far as I can tell from the FCC data,
it's still licensed to operate 40 kW day and 22 kW
critical hours, which starts two hours before local
sunset at WBIX. Then, it has post-sunset authority
only until local sunset at KYW, which is maybe 15 or
30 more minutes, and has to cut down to some
refrigerator light-bulb type power for that short
period.

   

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