[BC] NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING - Revitalization of the AM Radio Service

[James B. Potter]

Powell: 

Long-distance AM at night has long been rendered sub-optimal by ruinous
interference from unintended noise generators, drying-out of the earth with
its reduction in ground conductivity, and man-made intentional interference
from IBUZ.  Effective nighttime long-distance operation of high-powered AM
stations is an anachronism; a delusional fantasy of GMs and PDs who imagine
near-national overnight coverage to aggrandize their billing rates and
exaggerate claims to audience share. There is no need to enhance their
nighttime groundwave signals.

Regards/J

>So, Dave, you want to make the 50KW stations power down to 10 at night and
add stations and make a 50KW station nearly worthless at night?  That's what
you just said.  These stations with 50KW at night need every watt for their
local groundwave coverage.