[BC] Coastal 1A s

[Barry Mishkind]

I doubt the Europeans would like that idea at all.

At 02:08 PM 11/20/05, Robert Meuser wrote
>Bill Brister wrote:
>
>>I have a question about coastal 1A radio stations. Only two coastal 1A's
>>that I know of use directional antennas. WBZ, Boston to eliminate signal
>>waste over the Atlantic Ocean and WWL, New Orleans to eliminate the Gulf of
>>Mexico. They put a much stronger signal over the land areas of the country
>>as a result.
>>
>>The rest use non-directional antennas. It seems that stations like KFI and
>>KNX in Los Angeles put half of their signals into the Pacific Ocean. The
>>1A's in New York City would have a little bigger challenge covering New
>>England and the East Coast but I would think that could be overcome rather
>>easily.
>>
>>
>The problem with New York 1 As is that Long Island and Conneticuit 
>are both east of the market. To directioanlize away from the ocean, 
>would cut out a lot of the market. At one time WNBC had a 
>directional on Long Island; when there was not much population on 
>the eastern end of the island. Long Island's poor ground 
>conductivity is in general not a good place to place an AM transmitter site.
>
>I was just thinking the other day that it would actually be in the 
>interest of some stations to have no max power limit, provided the 
>excess RF did not cross the Canadian or Mexican border.  That 
>stations either radiate the equivaent of 50 KW into a 200 deg tower 
>or their max radiation now towards those countries but could push 
>all the RF they wanted across a market into the ocean. As an example 
>in New York a station located in the Meadowlands could push a lot 
>more RF through Manhattan (where they all need more) and then across 
>Long Island. KFI could locate East of LA and do something 
>similar.  I am not sure how many stations would take advantage of 
>such an option, but it is not unlike the exception make for expanded 
>band 10 KW operation at night.
>
>R
>
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