Re: CCU Interested in Xpanded Band

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

If CCU gets approval to move the downstate IL station to 
Chicago, look for the company to try to move the unbuilt 
Dover NH 1700 station to the Boston area. With the 
possible exception of WWRU, which apparently has been 
granted 10 kW-U DA-N, all X-Band stations are ND-U with 
a maximum of 1 kW-N (into a 1/4-wave tower; one west 
coast station with a taller tower has to run something 
like 570W night to compensate for the higher antenna 
efficiency).

The WXKS (AM) site, which CCU owns, would be ideal for 
the 1700 station. There is no better site for an ND 
station to reach the market by day with 10 kW and the 
towers are a little over 120 degrees high at 1700. The 
nighttime coverage would be better than WXKS (AM)'s, 
both because of the ND pattern and because of the _much_ 
lower noise on 1700 compared with 1430. Except for the 
fact that so few radios receive X-Band, this would be a 
much better deal for CCU than the (seemingly) never-
ending quest for a TX site for WKOX's 50-kW-U operation.

Remember George Carlin's Wonderful WINO (1700 on the 
dial--just above the Police calls)? Well, if you live 
near Boston, Wonderful WINO might just be coming to an 
AM radio near you--if you're one of the few people with 
a radio capable of receiving X-Band. I suspect that 90% 
of the radios that can receive X-Band are in late-model 
cars.

--
dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205
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> Up to now, including last Sunday's LTAR (03/17 in Boston), the Xpanded
> Band from 1610 to 1710 AM has been regarded as a joke.  But NOTHING
> escapes the execs at Clear Channel, and they own an Xpanded Band outlet
> that they want to move to Chitown.  WHTE-AM 1690 is licensed to Johnson
> City downstate Illinois;  CCU wants to move it to Berwyn, IL near
> the Big Plum (if NYC is an apple, wouldn't Chicago be a plum?).
> Gee, doesn't the interest of the biggest conglomerate somehow
> legitimize the X-Band whether we like it or not?
> (They also own AM 930 in Rochester, NH with a CP for X-Band.)
> 
> Laurenc eglavin
> Methuen MA
> 
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