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Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition
- From: "Rene Tetro" <rtetro@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:35:27 -0500
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There is no reason whatsoever that KXEL needs to have their signal blasting into the east coast at night. When I was working at WPTR in Albany, NY in the 1970s (also on 1540) KXEL's came in so strongly at night that I could see our towers from 3 miles to the south in Guilderland and hear KXEL wiping us out. Our pattern was extremely tight to the south (protecting the Bahamas) and the west (protecting KXEL) that our signal in many local areas was useless, even with 50KW. Of course, the other side of the coin was that you could hear WPTR throughout New England and eastern Canada at night - also a waste of RF. The only solution to all of these problems is for MOST class A stations to power down at night.
It would make more sense overall to lower the power of the "big boys" at night to improve local coverage of other stations on class A channels than to have everyone else boost power...which would only make things worse. It would also make sense, however, to maintain a few high power class A's at night to provide wide area coverage - especially in emergencies. Perhaps even allow them to go superpower, while moving other stations off of those frequencies. Such stations as WBZ, WABC, KDKA, WLS, WLW, WSM, KOA, etc. could serve this purpose well.
RenÃ
Renà Tetro
WNTP-WFIL
Philadelphia
----Original Message-----
From: IRCA [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Russ Edmunds
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 2:38 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition
As a practical matter, that 'solution' wouldn't really help anybody because
it doesn't alter the facts of
propagation. Whatever new stations were added to the current 1_A
frequencies would - as many of their predecessors have - suffer significant
interference from the higher powered stations.
Russ Edmunds
15 mi NW Phila
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
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