[BC] RE: WDMN - Was: Old Arrays

[PeterH5322]

>As the designer of this antenna system, I really appreciate your kind 
>words.  

You're most welcome.

The long list of your accomplishments certainly speak for themselves, and 
for you and Carl Smith Engineers.


>Unfortunately, reradiation and other environmental issues required different 
>adjustments for the day and night patterns to permit augmentation which 
>would meet the 
>protection requirements to all stations requiring protection  
>consideration.  
>This required the installation of a second phasor and pattern switching 
>after 
>the initial construction had been completed.

An unfortunate situation, but perhaps understandable.

I could see that the augmentations were significantly different, day and 
night ... as the day protection is to the west, and to those two 1520 
daytimers which are only 20 or so miles apart ... while the night 
protection is to the east, and WWKB, a Class A, which is at the opposite 
end of Lake Erie.

I wasn't aware that a second phasor was installed, but given the quite 
different requirements, day vs. night, even for what is supposedly a DA-1 
(same constants day and night), with just the power changing at LSS and 
LSR, perhaps that was the path of least resistance in order to allow for 
the day and night patterns to be separately tweaked for the associated 
augmentations, even though they are nominally the same.

Still, a dual five-tower phasor is perhaps a small price to pay in return 
for a reduction in towers from 12 to 5, and two sites to one.