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Re: [IRCA] CKKW-1090 Kitchener ON applies to move to FM (99.5 , 2.2 kW)
Perhaps the trick is in the engineering. The right power, pattern, height.
I'd expect that CTV, the owner of CKKW, will be happy with a signal that
doesn't go too far oustide the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Guelph in the east,
London in the west, the same mileage north and south. The 1090 signal gets
chopped up pretty badly by Baltimore. I'd heard rumours for a year or so
that this was coming. I'm not surprised. DX-wise I am glad to potentially
have a new workable channel. WBAL like all clears will be easily nulled.
Arkansas will be there, but so will other new DX goodies. Adding 99.5 with a
couple thou watts won't do any serious damage to FM DXing here.
Saul Chernos
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From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] CKKW-1090 Kitchener ON applies to move to FM (99.5 , 2.2
kW)
David Faulkner wrote:
I would think this one wouldn't get far before WDCX killed it. They have
(or had) a very potent signal all over that region.
They sure do - so much so that another attempt to put a Kitchener FM on
99.5 ended in failure. CIKZ ended up moving to 106.7 to escape the WDCX
interference...after CHCD Simcoe moved from 106.7 to 98.9 to escape
interference from WYRK 106.5 Buffalo.
The desperation to get off the "dying" AM band up there is so strong that
stations will apply for channels like 99.5 even when they already know
they won't work. (Another example is 92.9, home to superpower WBUF in
Buffalo - the old 960 in Cambridge ON moved to 92.9, then had to move
again, to 107.5. So what happened? Another new station came on at 92.9 in
Haldimand-Norfolk...
s
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