That "critical hours" is 11pm-4am year round.. its listed in the FCC Database as DAH
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The Remaining Class A AMs In The 48 Contiguous United States
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That "critical hours" is 11pm-4am year round.. its listed in the FCC Database as DAH
"Critical Hours" is the two hours before and after local sunrise and sunset, used to protect the primary clear channel station. If it's used in a different way, it should have a different name.
KICY is a special case and the only one like this.. its apparently listed with the FCC as critical hours too and i think it's the closest thing they could come up with for that part of the license.
What a great use of electricity.. Not really.
They'd be better off reducing their power during critical hours.
What does the DA protect? KOA?
Huh?
This has nothing to do with actual "critical hours." The "CH" record in KICY's license is just the FCC's way of creating a record for a unique situation (like so many unique situations in bush Alaska.)
KICY has permission to use the 3-tower DA during overnight hours specifically to send its Russian-language evangelical programming as deep into Siberia as 50,000 watts can take it. Reducing power would reduce the reach of that programming, and as long as donors want to pay to send that message where it's going and international treaties allow it, it's up to KICY to decide whether the power bill is worth it. Apparently they think it is.
The DA doesn't protect anything. It just concentrates more power into Russia and wastes less of it over English- (or native-language-) speaking Alaska during the hours when KICY is speaking Russian.
We had a neighbor who was from Siberia. She was an "Internet Bride". Very attractive, much more than Keri Russell, Bond girl looks. After a while, I wondered if she was a spy. Very self aware. If you looked out your window, far from the window when she got the mail, even when you were in her "6:00" the whole time, she'd turn around and wave!
Does anyone remember that back in the 1960s, you could sometimes hear WMEX 1510 Boston interfering with WLAC at Night with its Top 40 format, inside WLAC's protected skywave contour?
I was looking over the 1510 situation, and now KGA is 540 watts nondirectional Night, and WMEX is 100 watts nondirectional Nights, and has grandfathered skywave overlap with WLAC, which was reduced by the new Class D facility. Apparently they were always allowed grandfathered overlap, even when they were 5000 watts. The 540 watt KGA interfering signal is right up against the protected skywave signal of WLAC.
I was looking over the 1510 situation, and now KGA is 540 watts nondirectional Night, and WMEX is 100 watts nondirectional Nights, and has grandfathered skywave overlap with WLAC, which was reduced by the new Class D facility. Apparently they were always allowed grandfathered overlap, even when they were 5000 watts. The 540 watt KGA interfering signal is right up against the protected skywave signal of WLAC.
whats with the negativity?
I was never able to snag WMEX in the Chicago area even though I tried.
The latest in my continuing quest to get to all the former I-A clears...
www.fybush.com/site-20210312/
www.fybush.com/site-20210312/
Uh, because if the intent is broadcasting religious programming to Russia, and and any associated donations therein.
What's negative about that?
It appears that for the last 45 years, I have been under the misconception that KYW is still 10KW at night! 1060 is not a US clear channel and under the old system, I think it was a Class II, not even a 1-B, which means it wouldn't have standard clear channel protection but rather that of a regional.
Thank you for the link! WBAP consistently booms into my Overland Park, Kansas location every night beginning in evening critical hours through morning critical hours. They run their audio pretty hard as I have to turn the volume down when I listen to station as compared to adjacent local WHB on 810 kHz and WCCO on 830 kHz. I wonder if this caused by the Optimod-AM in that processor rack.
Bob
So it would appear that KICY's Russian audience are people who 1) live in the remote areas of eastern Siberia where they send their signal, 2) listen to distant AM radio stations, 3) speak Russian and not only a native language, 4) are interested in listening to Evangelical Christian broadcasting. I have to say this seems like a really small audience. But according to their website... "The Pastor in Provideniya receives many calls about the positive impact KICY is having on their lives. God’s Word prevails."
One can hear WBAP alternating from 5-7-0 WBAP to 820 WBAP by listening to the broadcast day of WBAP from the day of the JFK assassination on YouTube.
I thought they finally changed that. WBAP used to alternate with WFAA.
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