Re: [IRCA] A station with a legitimate complaint

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hawkins wrote:
> KOQI/1200/Soquel CA is the major source of Hindu programming in
> Monterey Bay and Santa Clara Valley.  They are being taken out by
> KEX/1190 at 22 miles from their transmitter.  They aren't a
> powerhouse but are usually clearly audible here.

If 1200 (I show KYAA as the current call) is getting wiped in the 
Monterey Bay area, it may well have a case.

The Santa Clara Valley is well outside Soquel's nighttime 
interference-free contour, and while the station may have enjoyed usable 
coverage there, it would have a hard time making a case that any of that 
coverage is legally protected from interference.

Here's another way to look at it: let's say, hypothetically, that a 
station were to apply for a new analog signal on 1200 somewhere in the 
San Francisco Bay Area. (This is not as far-fetched as it might seem; if 
KNTS on 1220 didn't have its CP to go to 50 kW, it might have been 
possible for KDYA on 1190 from Vallejo to move to 1200 and go 
full-time.) That new station would have to protect Soquel's existing 
nighttime interference-free contour, but could legally interfere with 
Soquel anywhere else.

As long as the Soquel station wouldn't have a case against THAT sort of 
interference - and there's decades of case law and FCC policy that says 
it wouldn't - it probably wouldn't have a case against KEX, either, at 
least where Santa Clara is concerned.

Monterey is a completely different kettle of fish, at least within 
Soquel's interference-free zone, which is probably pretty small, 
certainly smaller than the 2.5 mV/m "local" contour shown on the 
radio-locator.com map, which encompasses pretty much all the Monterey 
Bay area.

It's the stations that came to the air late in the game like Soquel, or 
like my own semi-local WYSL 1040 here in upstate New York, that are 
likely to have the most to lose from night IBOC as a result.

s
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