[BC] Coastal 1A s

[Robert Meuser]

I dont see it making much difference since they are already running 
megawatt stations and no one is listening.

R


Barry Mishkind wrote:

> I doubt the Europeans would like that idea at all.
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> At 02:08 PM 11/20/05, Robert Meuser wrote
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>> Bill Brister wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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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