WDDV 1320 AM in Venice (owned by Clear Channel) fades out at night just as you reach the southern outskirts of Sarasota, where many of the fans of that station's music lineup live.Most of its interference comes from a station on 1320 in Jacksonville, owned by Salem.WLSS 930 AM in Sarasota (owned by Salem) also has a huge interference problem at night (NIF contouraround 23 mv/M), caused primarily by a station in Jacksonville, owned by... Clear Channel.See where I'm going here?If the 930 and the 1320 in Jacksonville got together and built a diplexed site west of Jax, rather than their current sites closer in to the center of the city, they could raise power toward Jax (and the ocean), potentially cover more people, and add in a null to the south-southwest so their counterparts in the Sarasota region have a little more breathing room at night. It would be a "win-win" for both companies.But it makes just too much sense.
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A SENSIBLE SOLUTION THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
- Thread starter smedge2006
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The main station WLSS has to protect is over in Winter Haven on 930, much closer than Jax. WDDV has to protect not only Jax but I think West Palm beach too... so cannot push any more to the east 1320 has an application on file to move to Eastern Manatee County with 35 KW pushing its signal southwest. A huge improvement to Bradenton, Sarasota, Venice.
That application was dismissed. 
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/...3&Service=AM&Form_id=301&Facility_id=3060This doesn't have to do with what 1320 protects. It's about how much protection 1320 gets from the Jacksonville station. If Jacksonville pulls back its signal in the direction of Sarasota, WDDV benefits at night without any kind of power increase on its part, because interference is reduced. As for WLSS, the Polk County station on 930 is a daytimer with a very sharp pattern NW-SE that wedges in between Sarasota and Jax. If it didn't exist, all WLSS would gain would be some farms and phosphate mines to the northeast of its transmitter site. The Polk station has nothing to do with 930's coverage problems at night. 930 daytime is fairly adequate for the Sarasota-Bradenton market.
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/...3&Service=AM&Form_id=301&Facility_id=3060This doesn't have to do with what 1320 protects. It's about how much protection 1320 gets from the Jacksonville station. If Jacksonville pulls back its signal in the direction of Sarasota, WDDV benefits at night without any kind of power increase on its part, because interference is reduced. As for WLSS, the Polk County station on 930 is a daytimer with a very sharp pattern NW-SE that wedges in between Sarasota and Jax. If it didn't exist, all WLSS would gain would be some farms and phosphate mines to the northeast of its transmitter site. The Polk station has nothing to do with 930's coverage problems at night. 930 daytime is fairly adequate for the Sarasota-Bradenton market.- Status