[BC] Class C AM Stations

[Mark Humphrey]

WHAT Philadelphia and WRAW in Reading, PA are co-channel on 1340 but
only 43.5 miles (70 km) apart -- and WHAT also has a co-channel in
Atlantic City, NJ which is 59 miles to the southeast.  It's ironic
that a station which began operation way back in 1926 couldn't upgrade
to better facilities.

BTW, one example of a Class C granted in the last window is Bud
Williamson's WDRE 1450 in Milford, PA (near Port Jervis, NY).

Mark

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Vernon Kuehn <vkuehn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>>  Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
>>  Are you nuts?  250W will do a whole PILE
>>  of damage to existing station where the
>>  co-channel Class C's are now something
>>  around 150 miles and closely spaced 1st
>>  adjacents on 1230/1240 have mutual
>>  destruction as it is day and night.
>>
>>  I agree LPAM would be useful on a channel
>>  of their own...say 1690.  At which point,
>>  250W does't carry more than 10 miles on a
>>  good day and skywave really wouldn't be an issue.
>
> I did some quick look-ups on Class C stations in the area where I am based (North Georgia - terrible ground conductivity) and where Scott is based in the Nashville area. Co-channel 1Kw stations at 1230/1240 are located 70 and 80 miles apart,  stations at 1490 are 50 to 60 miles apart.  (52, 62, 62)
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