[BC] RE: WDMN - Was: Old Arrays

[PeterH5322]

>And the WDMN calls stand not for "Demon," but for "Dominion 1520"... :-)

WDMN's consultant did a good job ...

1) two sites to one, going from real estate in two states and two 
counties, to one and one,

2) twelve total towers down to five,

3) reduction in power from 1/1 kW to 0.5/0.4 kW, but using the same array 
parameters day and night, just different augmentations day and night, and

4) employed somewhat tall towers (166.9 degrees, about 300') and 
"squishing" in order to get the equivalent of very tall towers, 205 
degrees, give or take, and the corresponding higher efficiency this 
provides.

As the day and night parameters are the same, we can compute the RMS 
efficiency to be 412.23 mV/m/kW at 1 km ... significantly higher than 
Class A efficiency, and way, way higher than Class B efficiency.

Adjusting for the much higher efficiency of this array and considering 
the minimum Class B efficiency, this 0.5/0.4 kW station is equivalent to 
a 1.08/0.86 kW station, which compares favorably with its prior, higher 
power 1/1 kW operation, using conventional arrays.

A Carl E. Smith Engineers job.