[BC] Band Migration

[Robert Meuser]

Willie:

You act as though low powered daytimers have some right to more coverage. 
Remember the original owners bought into the situation willingly and subsequent 
owners bought the station knowing what it was. Daytimers were quick buck entry 
into radio when it was a virtual mint. Most money is made in the daytime so why 
broadcast at night?


If there is ever new spectrum it should be available on an equal basis. I bet if 
that happened, certain daytime owners would not make the switch and just sit and 
still bitch waiting for a handout.

R

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01/23/2006 12:48:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> dynotherm at earthlink.net writes:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Naturally, those could stay put. They should be given the option. The other 
> possibility is change frequency, perhaps even to a 1'st adjacent, since so many 
> of those stations would have vacated... they could end up with more night 
> power, easier patterns, etc. Even if they kept the same power/patterns, just the 
> migration of all the co and adjacent stations would give them a better 
> coverage area at night.
> 
> 
>> Possibly, you could move Class C stations to a new FM band and give
> 
> 
> Those should be the "automatic" moves... since they're designed to be "local" 
> and non-D, anyway, put them all on the new FM band. I don't think too many of 
> them would object too loudly if they had enough "overlap" time to allow 
> listeners to get radios (or have existing analog ones modified.)
> 
> 
>> 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,"
> 
> 
> How many stations on AM are 1Kw or less? Those would be *The Prime Candiates* 
> for a move to a new FM band. How much "cleaner" would the AM dial be if, say, 
> 100% of those stations migrated? Probably quite drastically. Daytimers with 
> substantial power could change frequency and keep their original power, only 
> now they'd get a substantial night power as well. Or they could migrate to the 
> new FM.
> 
> It all makes too much sense, technically. If only...
> 
> Willie...
> 
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