[BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?

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In a message dated 07/21/2005 12:09:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dynotherm at earthlink.net writes:

> Methinks this
>  one should have been moved to the X-band, if possible.

We tried! On the list of 88 stations to get an EB auth, we were number 283. 
<:P

Someone else said that the changes to DST doesn't actually change our 
sign-on. "Technically" that's true, as it's always related to the relative position 
of the Sun... but our *listeners' schedules* are changed! What was once 6:45am 
sign-on in November will now become 7:45. That's horrible!

WTOP's signal is absolutely incredible up this way during darkness, and 
really plays havoc with ours near each end of the day. Even if the FCC were 
gracious, and gave us the April PSRA of 290 watts from 6:45-7:45am, we'd be fortunate 
to get *maybe* 1/2 mile of *useful* coverage in our major lobe because of 
WTOP's flamethrower.

I have measured WTOP peaking as high as 20mv/m in winter, with *average* 
peaks around 10mv. I live about 12 miles LOS from WFIF, in the major lobe. I get 
7mv here when we're at 5Kw, and about 2.3 when we go to 500w. It's not too hard 
to figure out the winner of that "signal war". After 4:30pm in Nov & Dec, we 
may as well be off-the-air if you're more than 5 miles away, even in the major 
lobe. Forget the sides/back.

BTW, WSTC is totally non-existant, here. It's all WTOP. Only on extremely 
rare instances, have I ever heard even a hint of that Detroit(?) 1500 station. Of 
course, their 9-tower flashlight beam doesn't put much signal this way.

Willie...