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WDNY OWNER BUYS WASB BROCKPORT, WRSB CANANDAIGUA

Being the intellectual idiot I am when it comes to signal patterns and all that other technical jargon I have (what will be) a dumb question regarding the station in Brockport.

I thought that WASB’s signal could only broadcast on a narrow northerly band towards Lake Ontario and that even residents in nearby Spencerport couldn’t hear the station.

If I am right, then what can be done to change this station’s signal pattern so that it can at least reach the city of Rochester limits? Does this include going to the FCC for permission to change the coverage area?

From a financial aspect it doesn’t seem viable that anyone would spend money to buy a radio station whose signal pattern is as limited as WASB’s.
 
You can't improve WASB's signal towards Rochester - at least not significantly. The station has to protect WAUB Auburn during the daylight hours as well as WGGO Salamanca. On the existing real estate the tower orientation can't be changed enough to make a difference. Even if you moved the array east, the same protections/limitations would apply.
 
Savage said:
You can't improve WASB's signal towards Rochester - at least not significantly. The station has to protect WAUB Auburn during the daylight hours as well as WGGO Salamanca. On the existing real estate the tower orientation can't be changed enough to make a difference. Even if you moved the array east, the same protections/limitations would apply.
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Put it on 1600, license it to Henrietta, with its 3 towers sending the signal northwards with null towards Auburn & Wellsville. Actually 2 towers would work with a sideways kidney-bean signal pattern; nothing going to the south. - There's no other 1600 in Western NY, is there?
 
There are WMCR Oneida and WEHH Horseheads, which moved to 1600 and went 5kw(ish) about a decade ago. The daytime protected contour for WEHH reaches approximately to Lima, so the only prayer you have to get appreciable signal over Rochester and still hit the Brockport COL is to get southwest of the City and point a powerful and tight lobe east-northeast.
 
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