[BC] Re: lpfm question

[Broadcast List USER]

It is really more complex than that.

You can end up covering much more area, but less population.

You also need to consider building penetration.

Imagine you increase your height and double the distance to your 60  
dBu contour, but you move your 70 away from the population.  Is this  
good?

Especially with the change making a Community of License change to a  
minor change, transmitter sites are moving into larger communities,  
and downgrading.  A Class B FM might move from a rural area to a  
city, with a downgrade to Class A.  It might loose 80 percent of the  
LAND AREA covered by the 60 dBu, but pick up population counts --  
maybe by five or ten times.

More details are needed.  V-Soft has most of the tools you need to  
decide this, including pop counts.

--chip

On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:43 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 28
> From: Jerry Mathis <thebeaver32 at gmail.com>
>
> When planning an FM transmitting site, there are three main  
> considerations:
>
> 1. Height
> 2. Height
> 3. Height
>
> In all probability, yes. Go with the extra height and reduce your  
> ERP to
> whatever you have to. Every station I have EVER worked for that did  
> this saw
> a signal improvement.
>
> Jerry Mathis
>
> On 2/14/09, bmc1956 at aol.com <bmc1956 at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> We operate a low power fm in Lake Charles, LA from a 96' tower.
>>
>> We may have the opportunity to move to top of a 250' tower.
>>
>> I know if we do that, we will have to reduce our transmitter  
>> power, but
>> would the extra height be beneficial to us?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Barry? kelb radio