[BC] Band Migration

[Phil Alexander]

On 22 Jan 2006 at 14:33, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:

 > In a message dated 01/22/2006 10:00:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
 > dynotherm at earthlink.net writes:
 >
 > > Now, if you want to talk about putting up 3,000 ft towers
 > >  and hang half a megawatt ERP on them, maybe ... maybe there
 > >  is an idea there if someone is willing to foot the bill.
 >
 > Keep the 50Kw Clears on AM for just that reason.
 >
 > I'm talking about moving all of the "Mom and Pop" stations, "graveyard"
 > channels, Daytimers, flea-night power stations, 
super-directionals, etc, to a new
 > VHF band. Open up the MW band for what it was *meant* to do: Cover 
huge areas.
 > Use VHF for what it was meant to do: Cover *local* areas.
 >
 > That's what I think should be done.

I doubt you would get much cooperation from the higher power Class B's,
many of whom now have 50 kW daytime with 5, 10 or more at night.
Some of these are on Class A channels (consider WHB) some on Class B
channels (consider WWJ). Some of these have highly directional signals.
Others are directional only at night.

Possibly, you could move Class C stations to a new FM band and give
them the equivalent coverage with a Class A FM license, but unless you
can closely duplicate the present coverages of Class B and Class D AM
stations you are sure to run into the complaints that "I didn't get
enough coverage," or "You gave so-and-so too much coverage and upset
competition in the market." This is how we came to the IBOC "solution"
in the beginning - - preservation of the coverage status quo, or at
least the appearance of that. It is this reality that stops technically
better solutions cold and dead.


Phil Alexander