[BC] New PSRA/PSSA nightmare!!

[Robert Meuser]

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:

>"Ratcheting"...? from 500 down to 3?! For crying out loud, we've been running that 500 watt PSSA for 19 years! Even at 500 watts, many evenings, WTWP still obliterates us at my home, 13 miles away in the major lobe. (I get 7mv/m at day power, 5Kw, at my house. WTWP peaks between 5-10, and as much as 20 at night.)
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Look at WCBS, they got ratcheted to 25 KW on their aux tower (later 
upped to 35 KW) down from 50K while they still have 50K on the main 
tower. Ratcheting rules are borderline insane, especially in the world 
of IBOC. If your case, you are inside the protected contour of a class A 
station. It is a wonder you got anything. Early in my radio career I 
worked at a daytime station inside the nighttime protected contour of an 
A. I saw class III stations get all kinds of concessions while we never 
got more than straight daytime hours. I think you need to investigate 
other remedies.

R