[BC] Powering the big rigs

[Jerry Mathis]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Ron Youvan <ka4inm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard Fry wrote:

> This does not take noise into consideration, but it can not be ignored.
>The change from 4,800 Volt to 13.8 kV neighborhood distribution has reduced the range of every AM station in West central Florida to a quarter of what it was and all of the traditionally 5 kW stations are running 11 kW and similar powers.  FM reception also does not suffer from  co and adjacent station interference, or Ibuz.  (anywhere that I have been)

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>Ron KA4INM

I'll bet that when they upgraded the power line voltage they didn't upgrade the pole insulators.

How did the stations get upgrades to 11 KW? Was this part of the Cuban interference issue? Did the stations just arbitrarily increase their power? Did they get licenses/STA's?

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Jerry Mathis