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

[R J Carpenter]

From: Gary Blau <gblau at w3am.com>

> 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!

Yep, FMQuery certainly demonstrates that in the WGMS aux 54 dBu
coverage from that site.

> 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?

You may very well be right. The WGMS application study doesn't appear
to be online.

> I'm surprised the WTOP site aux. needs to be a DA to fit in the main
> contour.

My use of the term "fit" was misleading.  I meant that they changed
the DA pattern to have a better signal over the important parts of the
main station's coverage area.  I didn't mean that they needed to
change DA to be legal.

Looking at the 54 dBu maps on FMQuery, the earlier CP at the WTOP site
was designed to offer not much more protection to the NE as the main
WGMS site, while the revised DA substitutes better coverage over
downtown DC and to the SW and reduces the signal to the NE.

Will the next step will be more transmitter power at the WTOP aux
site?

bob carpenter