Re: [IRCA] KCTA-1030

[Forrester S <jesuslovesftssd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting thread might help a little more

http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?581996-KCTA-s-nighttime-application-history

KCTA's nighttime application history

Hopefully someone can fill in the blanks on this one. I remember past
applications from the station to add nighttime service with 1,000 watts,
supposedly by constructing a second tower. Unless I'm mistaken KCTA has an
unusual authorization to sign on with full power of 50,000 watts at the WBZ
Boston site sunrise time. Now if that's correct, I'd conclude that it would
supplant their pre-sunrise authority to sign on at 6:00 AM with 217 to 245
watts, depending on the time of the year. They also have post-sunset
authority with those same power levels, allowing them to operate for two
hours past sunset, varying from 7:30 PM in November and December to as late
as 10:30 PM in June and July.

So the questions are: do they take advantage of the morning hours
full-power clause? Do they operate under the post-sunset authority or sign
off at Corpus Christi sunset? Finally, did the FCC dismiss all the
applications for nighttime operation strictly because of technical flaws,
or in the case of the last one in 1999, did KCTA simply fail to pursue it?
On Jan 7, 2016 7:02 PM, "Russ Edmunds" <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1900 EST.
>
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> Russ Edmunds
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> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Bill Block <billblock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Anyone know the s/off time for KCTA-1030 for this time of the year?  I
> > heard what sounded like a s/off at 1900 EST I did hear 50,000 watts and
> > KCTA would be the only station that would make sense.
> >
> > Bill Block
> > Prescott Valley, AZ
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