[BC] Re: Re:WTOP off air last night? (Gary Blau)

[Gary Blau]

OK, that current aux site was the old WOOK-FM site back when United had
to suppress toward then co-owned Baltimore.  What a horrible signal that
was!

The AU site was the main way back when I was there, but the old RCA DA
only protected 103.7 as far as I recall.  I don't think York was an
issue, did they move?

I'm surprised the WTOP site aux. needs to be a DA to fit in the main
contour.
The old WASH/WDON site at least was on top of the Wheaton ridge, WTOP is
significantly lower.

Anyway, it's always good to have more backups.

g


That current aux site was the 

R J Carpenter wrote:
> 
> Gary,
> 
> The WGMS(FM) sites are:
> 
> main - American Univ in NW DC 44 kW max 14 kW min at 158 m protecting
> 103.3 York,PA,  & 103.7 Harve de Grace, MD, to the N & NE. Site shared
> w/ WAMU, WPFW, WMMJ and others.  The distance to York is 129 km and to
> Havre de Grace is 110 km.
> 
> aux - The old chan 14 site at Riggs Rd and the DC/MD line NE DC 15 kW
> ND 83 m HAAT, shared with an aux for WBIG 100.3.
> 
> CDBS shows two CPs for the 1500 AM site
> 
> CP 1, Apr 2004 - 10 kW max 3.4 kW min 131 m DA pattern similar to main
> site. TVFMSTNS computes roughly 8.1 kW average.
> 
> CP 2, Nov 2004 - 15 kW max 726 W min 138 m DA pattern more severe than
> main site. Roughly 7.7 kW average.
> 
> One might guess that CP2 has the same xmtr power as CP1 but with a
> better signal fit to the main site's coverage. The Wheaton (AM) site
> is a little out of city center but WASH(FM) was right down the street
> until they were bought by Metromedia and moved to the WTTG 5 tower in
> DC..