KFI and their new stick

[awj223]

680 has large fulltimers in San Antonio, St. Joseph, MO, and Boston and Baltimore. There are quite a few smaller ones, also. A 1-A was, originally, a sole night operation on its channel. 680, like channels such as 710, 810 and 850, for B's.

Yes, I already knew that, although I assumed that those fulltimers on 680 weren't licensed until many years after KPO went to 50kW. But what does the designation actually mean? What, for example, was a Class II-A (this seems to be equivalent to today's Class B)? Was there such a thing as a II-B or III-A or II-C for lesser signals? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I wasn't even born back when these designations were used, and Google is rather unhelpful trying to figure out what they mean.

 

[davideduardo]

Boston, San Antonio and Baltimore are stations that have been on 680 since before the NARBA reallocation (which did not affect 680) and, I think the creation of the clears of both class going back another decade. A 1-B clear had multiple "biggies" on it, like KNBR and WRKO, or KGO and WGY. Generally, one was non-directional, and the other (s) directinal. However, look at 710 with KIRO and WOR and WAQI, all big 50 kw and directional, with WHB, KGNC and KEEL and the Duluth a station squeezed in in the middle. Or 1190, with KEX in Portland and WOWO in Indiana, with a few small stations in the middle, and eastern seabord.