Re: [IRCA] Re; 1130 Interference

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Martin wrote:
> Scott,
>
>  Don't we have something in "International" laws to protect CKWX? 

That's what I've been trying to explain. There's an international treaty 
signed by the US and Canada in 1984, formally known as the "Agreement 
Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of Canada Relating to the AM Broadcasting Service in the 
Medium Frequency Band" and informally known as the "bilateral agreement."

According to that treaty (which has the force of law in both countries), 
CKWX is protected from *groundwave* interference on Canadian soil during 
daylight hours, and from both skywave and groundwave interference at 
night. KPWX puts essentially no groundwave signal into Canada, and they 
have measurements to prove that.

The treaty provides *no* protection to CKWX (or any other Canadian class 
A station) from skywave interference during critical hours, which is 
what's happening here.

It's possible that CKWX could work out some sort of arrangement with 
KPWX in private negotiations (like that WNYR/CFTR deal in the seventies 
I described in an earlier e-mail), but it doesn't appear to have much 
recourse where the laws are concerned.

It may not sound fair, but there are a lot of things in international 
broadcasting treaties that don't work out well for individual stations.

s

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