[BC] Re: Skywave dying

[Powell E. Way III W4OPW]

OK Scott, now you have five burning Sparklers in both
hands....1000 gallons of gasoline was just dumped
around you:





--- "Bailey, Scott" <sbailey at nespower.com> wrote:

> I tend to agree with Clay here, for the typical
> radio listener (I'm
> leaving out the AM hobbyist here) the once big Class
> A's need stronger
> "LOCAL" coverage and their radiation needs to be
> more concentrated on
> their local market than some listener 500 miles away
> that means nothing to them. 


What do you mean by "their radiation needs to be more
concentrated on their local market"   ?

 
> The typical person who listens to major AM station
> is listening for
> local news, weather bulletins, ballgames, etc., and
> is only interested
> in what's going on in their market or local area.

Mostly so
 I
> realize when
> Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, WWL was a MAJOR
> source for news and
> info for the market, and this was great, but some
> people carried on
> about it needed to get info to listeners 600 miles
> away.


> That's why we have CNN for. DUH!


And how am I going to get CNN free? Or better yet,
power is off and will be for an extended time, then
what?


> With this idea in mind, this would mean that a
> station like KIKK-AM in
> Pasadena Texas that is on 650, could stay on after
> sunset and WSM here
> in Nashville would be only concerned about the
> Nashville Market. For
> those concerned about the Grand Ole Opry, it can be
> put on satellite for
> local stations to carry in local markets, so this
> would eliminate the
> need for WSM-AM to have to worry about maintaining a
> huge skywave signal.

And KIKK's skywave can cause a lot of grief to WSM's
groundwave. 

Powell