[BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?

[Barry McLarnon]

On Friday 22 July 2005 18:27, Mark Humphrey wrote:
> The future of WTOP's skywave service (and KSTP's, for
> that matter) doesn't look too secure if all of those
> 1490s eventually turn on IBOC at night and start
> throwing their digital signals onto 1500.
>
> Just in the northeastern states (New England, NY, NJ
> and PA) there must be at least 25 stations operating
> on 1490 (nearly all of them are now 1 kW
> non-directional) so if The Plan succeeds, 1500 will be
> a channel where the RSS noise floor comes WAY up at
> night in this region.

A more immediate concern for WTOP would be WLAC on 1510,
who already have IBOC installed.  If WTOP has any listeners in
the Carolinas, Georgia, the Gulf Coast, etc., they'll be history
once WLAC keeps the noise gen on at night.  Of course, WTOP is
also equipped for IBOC, so mutually assured destruction will
kick in.

Maybe neither station cares about those listeners in the boonies, but 
consider a station like WSM-650, which has a big skywave audience. 
If, say, WFAN fires up IBOC at night on 660, a whole lotta Grand Ole Opry 
fans will be having fits...

Barry

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Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON