Re: Stations should STOP sending more signal over water than over land.
> Sending so much signal over water IMHO is a WASTE!
>
> If they want a 50kW signal with which to cream downtown, put
> a transmitter at Pt Loma, Coronado, or Silver Strand, and
> directionalize to the east, not in Santee directionalizing
> to the west/southwest!
>
> Oh, there IS that station in Phoenix they need to protect.
>
> I suppose, then, that they could either use less than 50kW,
> or go ahead and get the 50kW signal and directionalize north
> from Imperial Beach or Chula Vista or something like that.
> Just don't send too much signal over water - for example for
> every microvolt per meter 5 miles west of Point Loma, there
> should be at least a millivolt per meter at Petco Park.
>
Yes, I am concerned about too much RF flattening the swell at Tourmaline
When I did nights the old KUDE AM 1320 Oceanside (now the Palomar College station) we could barely reach into Vista, the next town to the east, but we routinely got letters from folks who picked us up in Australia.
And we did have regular listeners at sea. Nixon was president at the time and whenever he stayed at the so-called Western White House in San Clemente I would get request calls from guys on the Coast Guard boats that had to stay on patrol in the ocean off San Clemente.
Maybe the stations with strong directional signals to the west could start some special programming for fishermen and surfers headed to the Cortes Banks.