RE: Daytimer WOTW 900 AM Nashua to be 24/hr very soon!

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

The rules for PSRAs are looser than those for PSSAs. But 
the FCC's public AM database doesn't list either PSRA or 
PSSA powers. It does, however, list the night powers of 
Class D AMs, even when the power is (as in the case of 
WVBF 1530 Middleboro, MA) only 2W. I'm pretty sure that 
WOTW has a PSRA and I could believe that the PSRA power 
is 85W.

On a channel without Class A stations, a station with a 
PSRA can sign on at 6:00 AM local time (standard or 
daylight, whichever is in effect) using the PSRA power 
during the period between 6:00 AM and local sunrise.

For stations on channels on which Class A stations 
exist, the rules can get very complicated depending on 
whether the Class D station is east or west of the Class 
A and whehter the Class D is located inside or outside 
of the Class A's 0.5 mV/m 50% skywave contour. 900 has a 
Class A, but it's in Mexico (XEW, I believe), so I don't 
think it could be factor for WOTW.
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> Maybe they could be referring to a PSSA Power, which could give them a
> maximum of 500 watts. With Nash-wah and Sherbrooke, 'generally' along the
> same longitude, what good would that do, on the second thought....  I know
> I've heard the Old WOTW AM on before sunrise 'back-in-the-day' of the late
> 70s from where I lived in Lowell. Dave Faneuf, when did you sign the AM side
> on? Glenn Spatola might be able to shed some light on this too being another
> WOTW Alum. (from _way_ back lol....).