Re: RE: Sunday Globe Magazine article on Jerry Williams

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

You left out the oldest, though I think it only recently became a fulltimer.
That's in Corpus Christie TX. It's been 50-kW-D forever but recently added 1
kW-N. And there's a 50 kW-ND-U in Mexico City, which probably does more
damage to WBZ than any of the US stations--provided the US stations keep
their patterns in adjustment and actually switch to night power and pattern
when they're supposed to. Several have reputations for not doing so.

Also, WBZ's signal in Chicago is legendary, but WNVR, the 1030 station in
Vernon Hills, IL (a Chicago suburb) was just granted night power (I forget
how much, but I think it's several tens of watts). WNVR remains a class D
and it's directional at night to protect WBZ. However, WNVR's application
shows some overlap in Ontario between its 0.025 mV/m 10% skywave and WBZ's
0.5 mV/m 50% skywave. In the US, the contours are tangent to each other at
one or two points. WNVR's night service is the result of the FCC redefining
the formulas used for calculating Class A stations' nighttime-skywave
coverage. If you look at the exhibits in WNVR's application, you will see
that the FCC now says that WBZ's 0.5 mV/m 50% skywave doesn't even make it
into Indiana. Frankly, I think that's baloney, but Mel has other fish to
fry. I doubt that WBZ could show that it has lost any revenue as a result of
the stations that operate at night on 1030.

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurence Glavin <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: Fwd: RE: Sunday Globe Magazine article on Jerry Williams


> Here's a list I've compiled of AM station operating at 1030 khz full-time
> and their power in watts (all with DA's):
> WCTS, Maplewood, MN (essentially St Paul)...1000;
> WSFZ, Memphis, TN...1000;
> WQSE, White Bluff, TN...250;
> KFAY, Farmington, AR...1000;
> KOWW, Blue Springs, MO...500;
> WAUL, Brantley, AL...400.
> These aren't all the stations on 1030 at night, but they occupy the
> middle of the contiguous states north-to-south (there's also one in
Florider)
> and with DA's directed away from Boston they could be expected to block
> 'BZ from reception in the west the way 1120's in Bristol, CT and Concord,
MA
> block KMOX here.