[BC] Nighttime operation by daytimers

[Bailey, Scott]

Peter, Dan or, Phil:

Ok.....here's a idea, if you're a daytimer, with some flea powder,(HA!)
at night, say 10 watts, and your daytime tower is located just outside
town (a small, almost rural town), what I think can be done to just
cover the town at night is this....Get a LPB transmitter, buy also their
whip antenna they use for TIS and AM educational stations, find the
tallest building on public square in town and put the night transmitter
there. I wonder if the commission would license that as a two site
operation for a daytimer in a small town? It would be all of the expense
of having to go to a Kinstar or Valcom Antenna. Only thing would be
maybe some concern of high angle radiation from that kind of
arrangement. 

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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:43 AM
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Subject: [BC] Nighttime operation by daytimers

Mark Humphrey wrote:
"Those of you with daytimers authorized for "flea power" at night should
be
aware that the FCC has (in at least one case) allowed two-site operation
with a short (18 degree) nondirectional antenna at the night site."

Would this be one of Kintronics' very short and heavily top-loaded new
KinStar antennas? I believe that the FCC recently approved the KinStar
design for use at higher powers on (nondirectional) Class B, C, and D
AMs
without requiring the applicants to make any special showings of the
vertical radiation characteristics. The widely respected Louis duTreil
published papers showing that the KinStar's vertical radiation
characterisitcs are very similar to those of conventional series-fed
antennas approximately 1/4-wavelength in height.