I could be wrong, but I don't think it's been approved yet. After that, it'll probably happen pretty quickly.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think it's been approved yet. After that, it'll probably happen pretty quickly.
I know a person who put up a longwire temporary antenna in one day. But that was close to the ground. That was horizontally polarized though. The STA was already approved for the slant wire. They probably would need to schedule a tower climber for that. That's basically vertically polarized.
It might take a year or so to design a diplex if they have a site with most or all of the towers to be used in an array already up.
It might take a year or so to design a diplex if they have a site with most or all of the towers to be used in an array already up.
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Tom Ray was working on it a few weeks ago already I thought, which I would think it had been or was about to be approved. I cant get the FCC Database to load to double check
The engineering study was done at the end of May, the application to the FCC came about a week later. So it's only been a month. It usually takes longer to get an application approved.
Have they found a new site?
Sounds like they have found a site from what you're saying.
They have proposed a temporary site at their former FM tower in West Orange. Here's the link:
You can get a temporary site approved verbally with the FCC in minutes in the case of an emergency and by email within hours, if that.
Actually now that you mention it, I see that the 911 STA application was granted on June 21.
I knew about the temporary site. I thought you meant they found a permanent site.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that this was in regard to a new permanent site.
Tho, if it disappeared.. some would miss it, but not many.. its another one of those that may have outlived its usefulness with the cost to operate and rebuild
I've got to think Family Radio's demographic is north of age 70.
I remember listening to WQXR in the 1960s. It had a strong signal in Michigan in the early evening until pattern change at Sunset in Bakersfield. Never knew until much later why that was, but I remember some of the other grandfathered ones like WTIC, WCKY, and WJJD, blasting in at certain times after Sunset.
I found a long discussion of WQXR's (former owner of the WFME facilities) application to use its daytime pattern until sunset at Bakersfield CA (location of the other class A station on 1560 KHz).
The motive was obvious. From its Maspeth location east of Manhattan (subject of this thread), the required large null in WQXR's night pattern spanned much of the highly populated New Jersey suburbs.
Included in the application was a comprehensive analysis of population and therefore listenership (over one million for groundwave and over 6 million for skywave) that the "post sunset" day power operation could reach. Also pointed out was loss of listenership (ca. 16 thousand overall) to two existing small class B stations because of interference.
It took more than one try but the FCC ultimately approved WQXR's application and also denied a new application in Ohio that would conflict with WQXR's expanded secondary service area as proposed.
One of the above small stations was what is now WPAD in Kentucky. They were not forced to alter their facilities. But when upgrading over the years they and some others had to shut down or use a third pattern (think: critical hours) for up to three hours between their sunset and Bakersfield sunset to protect WQXR/WQEW/WFME's special "post sunset" operation. (Today WPAD has shrunk its nighttime coverage drastically to go non-directional.)
Link to the article: Google
The motive was obvious. From its Maspeth location east of Manhattan (subject of this thread), the required large null in WQXR's night pattern spanned much of the highly populated New Jersey suburbs.
Included in the application was a comprehensive analysis of population and therefore listenership (over one million for groundwave and over 6 million for skywave) that the "post sunset" day power operation could reach. Also pointed out was loss of listenership (ca. 16 thousand overall) to two existing small class B stations because of interference.
It took more than one try but the FCC ultimately approved WQXR's application and also denied a new application in Ohio that would conflict with WQXR's expanded secondary service area as proposed.
One of the above small stations was what is now WPAD in Kentucky. They were not forced to alter their facilities. But when upgrading over the years they and some others had to shut down or use a third pattern (think: critical hours) for up to three hours between their sunset and Bakersfield sunset to protect WQXR/WQEW/WFME's special "post sunset" operation. (Today WPAD has shrunk its nighttime coverage drastically to go non-directional.)
Link to the article: Google
Bilking little ol' ladies out of their life savings since 1978.
Right, let's not lose sight of the track record of this outfit. There's a lot of nostalgia for the good old days of the 1560 signal but given the current ownership and lack of any better prospects for the future, it would be better off dead at this point.
The same could be said for the entire Medium Wave/AM band.
Makes one wonder whether the rare markets that still have a powerhouse on AM -- Boston/WBZ, Hartford/WTIC, etc. -- continue to see significant AM listening long after the band has been virtually forgotten elsewhere. Or will the 55-to-grave demos turn to 65-to-grave and 75-to-grave with the passage of time and there will no longer be enough advertising to support even those stations?
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