Re: WCAT-AM Now Spanish (Ethnic?)

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

WCAT could now get a few watts at night. The FCC has revised the formulas for 
calculating the location of Class A AMs' 0.5 mV/m 50% skywave contours. This 
change has reduced most Class As' protected service by hundreds of miles. As a 
result, there is now a full-time station on 1030 in a Chicago suburb (WNVR 
Vernon Hills IL). WBZ used to have a killer nighttime signal there. WRYM 840 
New Britain CT, which is co-channel with WHAS Louisvile, now runs 125W-N DA-N 
(two towers protecting WHAS). Louisville is closer to New Britain than 
Cincinnati is to Orange. Without a DA to protect WLW, WCAT might get only 4 or 
5W at night, but that might be enough to deliver a listenable signal to most of 
the COL.

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