WKFD 1370 Ri (deformatted)

[Dan Strassberg]

The old WSRO 1470--when it transmitted from Fitchburg St in Marlborough--had
massive daytime overlap of 0.5 mV/m contours with WBET. Given that
situation, what is now WAZN may be permitted a lesser degree of normally
prohibited overlap--as long as it is less than what existed before the move
to Lexington. I'm not sure about that. But I can tell you for sure that WBET
is NOT WAZN's most serious first-adjacent problem to the south. Those honors
go to WSAR. If you look at WAZN's day pattern, you will see that it throws a
minimum directly toward WSAR; the general shape of the pattern protects
WBET, but there is no minimum toward Brockton.

I live only about a mile from the WTTT/WAZN site, and while WBET definitely
was audible here before WAZN moved in, I rather doubt whether WBET's signal
around here was 0.5 mV/m. I'm skeptical about the new setup causing no
overlap between WAZN's 0.25 and WBET's 0.5 but I think that there is less
overlap between WAZN's 0.5 and WBET's 0.5 than there used to be when WAZN
was WSRO and transmitted from Fitchburg St with 5 kW ND days.

--

Dan Strassberg
dan.strassberg@att.net
Fax: 1-707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>; <madprof@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "B-R-I" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: WKFD 1370 Ri (deformatted)


> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Scott Fybush"
> >To: madprof@ix.netcom.com
> >Subject: Re: WKFD 1370 Ri (deformatted)
> >Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:54:11 -0400
>
>
> Robert F. Sutherland wrote:
>
> > Wondering if anyone has knowledge? Apparently the WKFD call was
> > not otherwise reserved?
> > Is ASTRO TELE-COMMUNICATIONS CORP intending Block Island & the
> > rest of coverage is by chance? Do they own any other stations?
>
> >The new 1370 was applied for during the last window for major AM
> >changes and new AM stations. Under current rules, you can't apply
> >for a new daytimer, as the old WKFD was, and any new station has to
> >provide considerably greater protection to other occupants of the
> >channel (primarily, in this case, WFEA, WALK and WNRI, but also
> >WLYN, WDRC, WINY, WNBH, WPLM and WHTB) than the old WKFD's
> >grandfathered signal did.
> >s
> It's amazing that an operation in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
> would have to worry these days about first-, second-, and even
> third-frequency separation over dozens and dozens of miles, while
> WAZN-AM 1470 blithely plops itself down in the midst of what was once
> the reasonably decent coverage area of the former WBET-AM 1460 in
Brockton!
> I know WAZN is uber-directional, but still...
>
>
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