Re: [IRCA] US AM by state
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Re: [IRCA] US AM by state



Please note....Texas is number one even on this list. This is as it should
be.
Willis


301   TX
250   CA
226   FL
217   NC
187   TN
181   PA
180   GA
170   NY
151   AL
146   VA
137   MI
133   IL
132   KY
123   OH
117   MO
112   WI
109   WA
102   MN
101   SC
 95    OR
 91    MS
 86    IN
 85    AR
 84    IA
 83    LA
 80    CO
 73    AZ
 73    MA
 66    OK
 66    WV
 62    NM
 61    KS
 52    MD
 52    NE
 50    MT
 46    ID
 43    UT
 40    AK
 40    CT
 40    NJ
 37    SD
 33    ND
 33    WY
 29    HI
 29    ME
 29    NV
 28    NH
 19    VT
 15    RI
 10    DE
   7    DC

  4712


Synchronous transmitters on the same frequency as the main station were not
counted.

AK:  KINY-800 Juneau operates a 10-watt relay on 690 from Skagway.  Station
is legal as far as I know, and was counted.

IL:   The FCC still lists the three Chicago sharetimers on 1240.  WSBC
bought out the other two back in the late 1990's!  Only WSBC was counted.

MA:   WLLH-1400 Lowell was counted; synchro WLLH-1400 Lawrence was not.

MI:    Daytimer WNZK-690 and nighttimer WNZK-680, both in Dearborn Heights,
were counted as two stations.

Stations in the FCC database with "D" in front of their calls were counted.
Your guess is as good as mine as to whether they're still licensed.  Quite a
few ARE still on the air per recent reports and my own monitoring.

In the handful of cases where dual cities of license are in different states
( e.g. KRLC-1350, KBMW-1450, WRLA-1490), I counted the state of the
first-named city in the FCC database.

4712 grand total:  You'll find this number to be several dozen shy of the
totals that the FCC periodically releases.  This has been the case for
decades.  I suspect they count Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,
etc. in their totals.  Or maybe it IS the U.S. only, and they include
Construction Permits in the total.  On the FCC database, you can request a
list of a given state's AM stations; they'll even give you the total number
of stations at the end.  Those numbers were not used in this research; I
investigated every individual listing, weeding out synchros, stations
accidentally listed twice, and anomalies such as the Chicago-1240 situation
cited above.  A few stations which took to the air in 2005 or 2006 are still
listed as CP's, but have been reported as heard and on regular schedule in
the DX press; these of course were counted.

Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee





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