[BC] The FCC hates daytimers

[Scott Fybush]

Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
> The two translators WGNS-Am is using are ON THEIR TOWER... they really gain
> nothing they didnt have before!

Which is the entire point, really - by granting FM translators (under 
STA) only to class IV AMs so far, the FCC sidesteps a tremendously messy 
question: since FM translators owned by their parent station are 
currently limited to serving only areas within the predicted primary 
contour of the parent station, what should be considered the "primary 
contour" for an AM being translated on FM? Do you use the nighttime 
contour, in which case daytimers get burned again? Or do you use the 
daytime contour, and risk the wrath of FMs arguing that if AMs can now 
use translators to extend their signal reach, FMs should get to do so as 
well?

With the graveyarders, at least the FCC can argue that all the 
translator is doing is preserving the "predicted" coverage of the 1 kW 
AM signal against all the nighttime interference it receives.

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