Re: [IRCA] Bandon OR CP 800 khz?

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike McKenna wrote:
> Thanks Pat.  Who knows -- Maybe you will be able to hear the San
> Francisco area 1510 better than KGA at night.  What a shame. 

There's no need to guess about what the 1510 situation will look like 
after the KGA downgrade - it's all right there in black and white (well, 
beige and red) at fccinfo.com.

KGA's modified night pattern will be a big strawberry-shaped blob aimed 
northeast, with a little "stem" aimed southwest.

It will actually have a little bit less of a null in Patrick's direction 
than it does now; taking the power decrease into account, my read is 
that, all other factors being equal, the KGA signal on the Oregon coast 
won't diminish too much from what it is now.

The San Francisco 1510 will aim all its power due west in a VERY narrow 
lobe from its Oakland transmitter site. It shouldn't be a factor up 
Patrick's way.

The removal of KGA's class A status will clear the way for other nearby 
stations to expand their night footprints - but they'll still have to 
provide some protection for KGA's remaining signal. So any upgrades in 
Salt Lake or Phoenix would still have to throw a null toward the Pacific 
Northwest. But 1520 in Portland can also upgrade now, and given 
everything else it will still have to protect, most of its extra signal 
will probably be aimed out at sea, i.e., over Patrick.

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