[BC] Daytimer's woes

[Bailey, Scott]

Willie,
   The answer would be, to sell as much property as possible, and only
keep enough land to have a good "community signal". My deed calls for
2.6 acres, and my idea is (since I'm non-directional, and on the high
end of the band) is to have my building & tower, all on one acre.
   OK, that's great, but here is the kicker. Some people are so "hung
up" on Maxwell's theory of this big, huge, ground system, that they
think I really need. Well with the ground conductivity here so bad,
what's the point of why I should do 120 radials, 160' long?  It will do
me no good on this rocky, limestone piece of land I have! 
   Kevin Kidd on this list will argue with me on this point (nothing
against him personally, he's a real nice gentleman), but I realize it's
his business to put in AM ground systems, but my argument is in Northern
TN, some property that towers sit on are so bad with terrible ground
conductivity, there is no point for all that copper sitting out there,
waiting to be stolen by the gangs and drug lords, and it does my signal
no good, just a waste of money! And what's so terrible, some of them
live down the street from the station!
   Once again, I want to have everything on one acre, if possible.  My
tower is not a guyed tower, but a pirod self supporter. I thought about
doing a counterpoise ground, and have it fenced in, to keep the gangs
and drug lords out. But as on the other hand, they are so desperate for
cocaine, they will do anything to take that copper!
   I do know with my tower the way it is, and being on 1560, I can build
an antenna system to meet FCC minimum efficiency standards for a Class
D, daytimer. 

Scott

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Subject: [BC] Daytimer's woes

In a message dated 06/30/2006 2:57:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SBailey at nespower.com writes:

 > I keep seeing daytimers going dark anyway, especially in Alabama &
 >  Mississippi. In my case, the property is worth more than the license
 >  itself. But I refuse to turn it off at this time.

I wonder... could you sell the land at a tidy profit, then buy a 
*better* facility?

As for refusing to turn it off, I don't blame you. I've been working for
the
same station (WFIF) for 19 years, now. It's a Daytimer, with 0 night
power.
We're deeply concerned about the recent fudging with DST, because of 
the loss of
that hour in morning drive. Even if the FCC allowed us to sign-on at
full
power, WTWP's signal would easily clobber us that long before 
sunrise. (It still
clobbers us *after* sunrise on most winter mornings!)

One of the best ways to help daytimers, IMHO, would be to allow us to
have FM
translators. In fact, give Daytimers *preference* for them to duplicate,
say,
25% of their daytime coverage, or at *least* the COL. Not likely,
though.
Sigh.

Willie...



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