Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] How to Count 1550

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed completely here. I wouldn't dream of counting this as a new station. To me it is the same as if CBE never went off the air and just changed calls.

73 KAZ


-----Original Message-----
>From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Nov 2, 2012 5:33 AM
>To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] How to Count 1550
>
>To me it's a call change on 1550. The fact that the same call is being used on 540 for a while doesn't matter. I'm counting the stations, not the calls. Same as 690 to me since there was no significant gepgraphical change.
>
>Russ Edmunds
>15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
>Grid FN20id
><wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig G8
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>
>
>--- On Fri, 11/2/12, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] How to Count 1550
>> To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Friday, November 2, 2012, 12:14 AM
>> On 11/1/2012 11:35 PM, Jim Renfrew
>> wrote:
>> > Jim Renfrew, Holley NY
>> >
>> > So I've got CBEF on 1550, OK a new one then.  But
>> it's still on 540.  So are
>> > there two CBEFs on at once?  Or is 1550 CBE until
>> CBEF closes down?
>> >
>> > This is like one of those forbidden Sci-Fi scenarios -
>> if you go back in
>> > time and meet your earlier self the universe implodes
>> or worse!
>> >
>> 
>> Worse yet - can you really count CBEF-1550 as "new" when
>> it's just the 
>> same old CBE facility with a new set of calls and a new
>> language? (Even 
>> if the CRTC considers it a new license...)
>> 
>> I suppose the answer is that in Canada, one "license" can
>> control 
>> multiple "transmitters," so CBEF-1550 is for now another
>> "transmitter" 
>> of CBEF-540. (You could also look at it as 1550 being the
>> equivalent of 
>> a construction permit testing under program test authority
>> without 
>> having received a license to cover. That happened in
>> Rochester once upon 
>> a time, when WNYR was moving from daytimer-on-680 to
>> fulltimer-on-990 
>> and spent at least a few days operating licensed by day on
>> 680 and under 
>> PTA at night on 990, back in 1979.)
>> 
>> s
>> 
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