AM Nighttime Only

[Dan Strassberg]

WNYC proposed 50 kW full-time on 830 but those facilities were NEVER
granted. Instead, after many, many years of hearings and deliberations, the
FCC granted 10 kW-D/5 kW-N on 820, thus killing off an application for 820
for Weymouth or some other community on the South Shore. Eventually, the
death of the South Shore app made way for Worcester's WCRN and then the
relaxation of second-adjacent-channel overlap restrictions enabled WCRN to
increase first its day power and then also its night power to 50 kW. You
might say that New York City's loss became Central Mass's gain (or nowadays,
you might call it the Red Sox gain).

I don't know whether WNYC was contemplating diplexing with WMCA when it
proposed increasing to 50 kW on 830 but if that was the idea, the FCC sure
had the right idea when it moved WNYC to 820. As I mentioned in another
post, the nearby Pulaski Skyway Bridge wrecks WNYC's night pattern (there
are HUGE augmentations to the northwest). On 820 the problem was enough to
force a power reduction to 1 kW from the originally granted 5 kw. On 830, it
would have been fatal to the night operation because the problems lie to the
northwest, right where WCCO is. As it was, had Canada not put CHAM on 820
before WNYC built its 820 facilities, WNYC could probably be running 5 kw at
night.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: "Mark Casey" <map@mapinternet.com>; "Dan Strassberg"
<dan.strassberg@att.net>; <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: AM Nighttime Only


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Casey"
>To: "Dan Strassberg" , boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
>Subject: Re: AM Nighttime Only
>Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:16:29 -0400

>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

The last edition of Vane A. Jones's "North American Radio & TV List"
(the one with conjoined twins: one watching TV, the other lstening to the
radio)
I possess, possibly the last one published, had WNYC operating on 830 khz
with 50,000 watts day and night.  I wonder why they moved to 820 to boost
their
power when they would have to contend with WGY-AM 810 to the north.


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