Re: WXKS-AM & WJIB

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 04:16 PM 6/9/2003, dan.strassberg@att.net wrote:
>You miss the point. I did not propose a move; I proposed the ADDITION of 
>one or
>more low-power, nighttime-only synchronous transmitters. The FCC is
>granting "experimental" licenses for such operations and indeed just granted
>one last week to a Class D AM in Virginia that will add a synchronous
>transmitter to serve Portsmouth and parts of Norfolk--well outside of its
>nighttime service area, which is about 50 miles to the north. In WXKS's 
>case, a
>low-power nighttime-only synchronous transmitter, with a power of, say, 10W
>could be nondirectional. It could not radiate too much to the east without
>interfering with the main signal from Revere Beach Parkway nor could it 
>radiate
>too much to the west without interfering with the stations that WXKS 
>protects--
>mainly Newark, Endicott, and Toronto.


Sorry Dan, that was my goof.  I was wading through the huge pile-o-email 
that was in my inbox and go from newest to oldest and didn't see the post 
with the info you're describing above.

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