WFME 1560 to increase power from temporary antenna

[alok]

Looks like Family Stations has requested power increases on the temporary slant wire they are using in West Orange,NJ., up on the hill.
Right now they operate with 1kw day & night from this slant wire. They want to go to 10 kw day & night and will do so in increments, seeing if any interference complaints are received.
1.0 kw to 2.5 kw for 2 weeks, then 2.5 kw to 5 kw for 4 weeks, then to 10 kw, again day & night for all from the slant wire.
If they get no complaints, they will stay at 10 kw.

Al

 

[ajaynejr]

Prior to receiving their clear channel (Class A formerly I-B) assignment, 1560 New York was 10 kw nondirectional day/night, and shared a frequency near 1560 with the same Bakersfield CA facility, Their first 50 kw directional pattern (a day/night pattern) and also their last night pattern threw about 10 kw at Bakersfield. So it appears as if Bakersfield would not be a limiting factor for WFME to go 10 kw nondirectional.

If this all works out, Family Radio would have succeeded in their goal of re-serving the NYC region, including with the former WQBU and their Mt. Kisco facility. Plus keeping 1560 as a Class A facility.

 

[kevtronics]

WFME also used to stay on their daytime pattern until sunset in Bakersfield, which could be as late as 11 PM in the summer.

 

[luperm]

Even at 10kW, that signal will be subpar.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

I'd been curious, some while ago, as to why 'WQXR' 1560 was directional in the DAY.

(Take two, hi).

I'd also read, some while ago, that WBUX 1570 Doylestown PA had signed on the air before WQXR raised their power to 50,000. That timing would account for one of WQXR's daytime nulls still depicted on the infallible Radio-Locator.
@$$uming I understood this all correctly, would recent WFME plans for omni 10,000 still be allowed in the daytime if that's what their limit was before WBUX signed on the air ?
Apparently, as someone posted here, WQXR sent that equivelant 10 K at Bakersfield ANYWAY, even as a directional nighttimer.

Side note: I'd just read that the fellow who arranged to put WQXR 1560 on the air also put KPMC Bakersfield CA on the air.



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[ajaynejr]

Fifteen sixty was a "Cuban clear" channel. Not sure whether 50 kw from the "almost coastal" WQXR (now WFME) would have carried all the way down to Cuba along the Atlantic over water, or whether there was a pre-existing station a little further south on 1550, 1560, or 1570 that had to be protected. Good chance of the latter since I read somewhere that there were something like six applicants for class 1-B allocations on 1560.

 

[davideduardo]

Fifteen sixty was a "Cuban clear" channel. Not sure whether 50 kw from the "almost coastal" WQXR (now WFME) would have carried all the way down to Cuba along the Atlantic over water, or whether there was a pre-existing station a little further south on 1550, 1560, or 1570 that had to be protected. Good chance of the latter since I read somewhere that there were something like six applicants for class 1-B allocations on 1560.

1560 over salt water would not, at any power, come near Cuba. Despite the high conductivity of salt water, the propagation at high frequencies and the distance means that it might have been listenable as far as the North Carolina coast before being well below the protected contour of either allocation.

An example: there is a 10kw AM on 1580 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. It is aimed in the daytime right at Puerto Rico, about 900 miles away. In several decades living in PR before a local station was granted on 1580, I never every heard the mainland station, even using high-end Drake communications receiver with a tuned loop antenna!