AM Nighttime Only

[Dan Strassberg]

That may have been while WNYC tuned up its DA. They may have operated on 820
days from their then-new site diplexed with WMCA in S Kearney (using the new
night pattern and power--which was to have been 5 kW, but wound up at 1 kW
because the nearby Pulaski Skyway Bridge wrecks the pattern and throws a lot
of signal to the northwest toward CHAM) and on 830 limited-time nights with
1 kW per their old license from their old two-tower site near the East River
in Brooklyn. IIRC, the engineers worked on the 820 night pattern for well
over a year before giving up and applying for a reduction in night power and
a waiver of the FCC rule that requires an NIF signal over 80% of the
population of the CoL. Anyhow, such arrangements during proofing of a new
facility are somewhat uncommon and would not be considered for a permanent
license.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Casey" <map@mapinternet.com>
To: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>;
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: AM Nighttime Only


> Split frequency doesn't sound like such a bad idea. At least 227 watts
would
> serve a significant area. Just use 2 buttons on your radio.
>
> Of course then there is the cost of the filing changes and engineeering.
>
> Wasn't WNYC - New York City split 820/830 a few years back?
>
> Mark
> K1MAP
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
>
>
> casino is built, there is
> > likely to be more than enough business in Middlebrough to support the
> > station.
> >
> > That could put WVBF in the position of applying for a split-frequency
> > operation (1530 days with 2.2 kW-D/1 kW-CH and 1570 nights with 227W or
> > thereabouts) a la WNZK Dearborn Heights MI, the only split-frequency AM
in
> > the US. The FCC has repeatedly asserted that split-frequency operation
> > makes
> > the very well engineered WNZK substandard from a technical point of view
> > and
> > that position has survived several attempts by broadcasters to use it as
a
> > precedent for split-frequency operation of other stations. Moreover,
> > WNZK's
> > day and night operations are on first-adjacent channels--not fourth
> > adjacents!
> >
>