[BC] WWL-AM New Orleans

[Glen Kippel]

Hmmm,,,  Do you know precisely where these Central and South America Calass
A's are?  Just curious...

On 9/12/06, PeterH5322 <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com> wrote:
>
>
> >I just went to the FCC Info Search site and saw something interesting. It
> >shows WWL-AM New Orleans has a CP to change facilities to 10kw-D, 5kw-N,
> >non-directional. When I click on "Map It" it goes to the site of WSMB-AM,
> >1350.
>
> Fascinating.
>
> By rule, ND operation at 25 percent of licensed DA power should be OK,
> and that's 12.5 kW which is also above the 10 kW minimum for Class As.
>
> However, I can see that "Rio" added four Class As on 870 in Central and
> South America:
>
> 1) 2/2 kW (yet they call this a Class A !?! ),
>
> 2) 100/100 kW,
>
> 3) 10/10 kW, and
>
> 4) 50/50 kW,
>
> so perhaps that's the reason for less than 10 kW nights.
>
> Anyway, it's an auxiliary, although the FCC granted KGO 10 kW ND-U, 50 kW
> ND-LS, for the many months it took to reconstruct that station's array,
> and KGO isn't a Class I-A as is WWL, plus KGO has a domestic co-channel
> Class I-B.
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