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990 Muncie wants to move to the X-Band

PTBoardOp94

PTBoardOp94

I was reading historical documents randomly tonight and stumbled on the former 990 WERK in Muncie, which was donated in 1999 to "Electronics Application Radio Service, Inc.", and has operated with Special Temporary Authority since then with several formats and call signs. It recently took the call sign WNAP (AM), after the station previously bearing that call sign near Philadelphia was deleted.

The facility currently has special temporary authority for 62 watts days and 1 watt night from a long wire antenna behind a church near Muncie.

But the most recent STA filing had this interesting tidbit:
WNAP now Respectfully Requests an Expanded AM Band Allotment.

The filing, file no. BESTA - 20211013AAA, suggests taking the 1620 allocation that has previously in South Bend.

The application's status is listed as "Dismissed" on CDBS, so I guess the commission has no procedure for such a conversion. But it was an interesting attempt to salvage a license that I thought had been turned in many years ago.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
I was reading historical documents randomly tonight and stumbled on the former 990 WERK in Muncie, which was donated in 1999 to "Electronics Application Radio Service, Inc.", and has operated with Special Temporary Authority since then with several formats and call signs. It recently took the call sign WNAP (AM), after the station previously bearing that call sign near Philadelphia was deleted.

The facility currently has special temporary authority for 62 watts days and 1 watt night from a long wire antenna behind a church near Muncie.

But the most recent STA filing had this interesting tidbit:
WNAP now Respectfully Requests an Expanded AM Band Allotment.

The filing, file no. BESTA - 20211013AAA, suggests taking the 1620 allocation that has previously in South Bend.

The application's status is listed as "Dismissed" on CDBS, so I guess the commission has no procedure for such a conversion. But it was an interesting attempt to salvage a license that I thought had been turned in many years ago.
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The october 2021 filing contains the request to continue the longwire sta and the expanded band license request.. that was dismissed

The november 1, 2021 filing includes just the expanded band request.. and thats sitting as accepted for filing, but its only been a day.

it seems like the request is fesible, i just dont think the fcc will grant it.. but stranger things have happened.

so now, i think.... theyre technically operating without an STA the way i read what was filed.
 
Their latest FCC STA application bizarrely includes a copy of an e-mail thread in which their engineering consultant claims that "after AM Revitalization and some pushing and squeezing, Marty can have 600 watts into his 39 degree tower by the church". It doesn't elaborate if that's for their existing 990 kHz signal or the one they want on 1620 kHz.
 
I take it South Bend 1620 is deleted and can't be bought with the allocation moved, ala Carbondale (or wherever) to Berwyn. Xbanders are supposed to be uniform at 10000 day/1000 night
 
Yes. 1620 in South Bend was deleted several years ago. I think it was WDND at the end, but as with many weak stations, it had a bunch of calls and formats through the years.
 
kevtronics said:
Their latest FCC STA application bizarrely includes a copy of an e-mail thread in which their engineering consultant claims that "after AM Revitalization and some pushing and squeezing, Marty can have 600 watts into his 39 degree tower by the church". It doesn't elaborate if that's for their existing 990 kHz signal or the one they want on 1620 kHz.
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It's hard to see how anything on 990 in Muncie could have much Non-D power, even as a daytimer. They have to protect co-channel WITZ in Jasper, and the dominant station on the channel, CBW in Winnipeg along with some challenging adjacencies, like WMVP in Chicago.

The licensed array (despite not existing for over 20 years) has a deep null toward Jasper and towards Canada. I'm sure the original licensee of WERK didn't build a 6-tower antenna for the fun of it. The question is how much have the rules relaxed regarding protections since the 60s... and my understanding is they have not been relaxed at all to date.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
It's hard to see how anything on 990 in Muncie could have much Non-D power, even as a daytimer. They have to protect co-channel WITZ in Jasper, and the dominant station on the channel, CBW in Winnipeg along with some challenging adjacencies, like WMVP in Chicago.

The licensed array (despite not existing for over 20 years) has a deep null toward Jasper and towards Canada. I'm sure the original licensee of WERK didn't build a 6-tower antenna for the fun of it. The question is how much have the rules relaxed regarding protections since the 60s... and my understanding is they have not been relaxed at all to date.
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WERK was one of the squeezed in facilities that popped up from the same engineering firm between 1963 and 1966. You've also got WONE, Dayton; WITY Danville IL on 980; the former WAVE in Louisville; WMAY in Springfield on 970. 6 towers with 250 watts. No pre-sunrise authority even.
 
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