[BC] Faraday Fence - No Foreign Signals Allowed

[Rich Wood]

------ At 09:40 PM 2/17/2010, Broadcast List USER wrote: -------

>On a trip a bit later, my (now) wife and I went to her sister's 
>wedding in Dan Diego.  We drove the coast over about five days to 
>San Francisco and flew home from there.  We listened to XETRA all 
>the way up the coast.  Later, I saw the night pattern an figured 
>they ran the array in reverse.  I hadn't seen the day pattern.  It 
>does make much more sense that the station stayed on day pattern.

I've forgotten who we were protecting. I think it was a 690 in 
central Canada, so the day pattern at night would have violated the 
terms of the license.

>Now, I don't know much about the broadcast rules in Mexico, but that 
>seems to be a very odd station.  It is XETRA 50 kW DA-2 licensed to 
>Tijuana.  Then there is  However, there is also XETRA1, 77 kW Day, 
>50 kW night, also DA-2.  The city of license is the same, but the 
>coordinates are different:

I'm not sure but I would guess a second license might have been 
needed when they reconfigured the array to increase the daytime 
power. Then, possibly the third is the license for the final site. 
The coordinates for the third license are identical with  XETRA1. The 
transmitter site is at Rosarito Beach. I would guess the city of 
license is different for political reasons. Baja is treated 
differently than the rest of Mexico. It might have been advantageous 
to move the license away from the larger city.

With Mexico, one never knows. I ran into so many strange rules, 
including no religion, no booze and no programming that corrupted the 
language. If I remembered the transmitter site's phone number I'd 
call Eduardo, their Chief, and get the full story.

Rich