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UNUSUAL Broadcasting antenna install

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KCMY, 1300, Carson City NV has a CP to employ a single, 85' fiberglass "Whip" antenna.
http://www.valcom-guelph.com/products/V-33085AM-CL2.html
Although they will only run 125w nighttime, it may achieve long distance coverage, considering the high-angle of radiation
from this slightly less than 1/8 wave antenna. Years ago, they were audible, on occasion, running 500w ND, at my location in So.Cal,
460 miles south.
 
These antennas are nothing new. They are short, helical antennas. They are not efficient radiators. That is why the FCC approves them for use only above 1200 kHz. Below that frequency, the antennas do not meet the FCC minimum radiation efficiency.
 
Could this explain the 1190 in the St. Louis area which blasts into my home area near Chicago at night despite supposedly running 22 watts (or something like that)?
 
I can name 3 stations currently using this setup. All 3 are in my region of Canada and are x-band stations running 1000 watts full time. CJRS 1650 Montreal, CJEU 1670 Gatineau-Ottawa and CJLO 1690 Montreal. When 1350 CIRA-5 in Gatineau was in operation they were diplexed with CJEU.
 
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