Yesterday's (5/7/2009) FCC Digest indicated that both WKOX and WRCA have been granted licences to cover their new facilities at 750 Sawmill Brook Parkway in the Oak Hill section of Newton. WUNR, the station that has been at that site for more than 60 years, has not yet received a license to cover its upgraded facilities there, however. No doubt, the reason for the delay in WUNR's grant is that WUNR did not apply for a license to cover until almost a month after WKOX and WRCA filed their applications.
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WKOX and WRCA granted licenses to cover; WUNR--not yet
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The FCC CDBS reports that WUNR's License to Cover was granted today (5/19/2009). This was also the final day of WUNR's Program Test Authority.
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The signal where I live about 30 miles due north is about the same as it has been since mid-winter. One night recently (the evening they had the WWZN-progressive talk rally in downtown Boston) I tuned in to WUNR for a while during my homeward trip. It faded in and out, and WWRL overrode the signal on route 93 at just about the point it always has: a mile or so south of the junction with route 128. WKOX-AM and WRCA-AM were quite good well after WUNR disappeared. The signal "improvement" must be at 70 degrees or so, north of due east.
Laurence Glavin said:WKOX-AM and WRCA-AM were quite good well after WUNR disappeared. The signal "improvement" must be at 70 degrees or so, north of due east.
WUNR's 20-kW signal should be perceptably stronger than the old 5 kw signal over an arc extending clockwise by maybe 90 degrees beginning at around 45 degrees true relative to the WUNR site. Over that arc, the 20-kW signal strength is approximately double the 5 kW signal strength, which corresponds to a 4:1 power increase. The azimuth at which the old and new signals are approximately equal lies at ~10 degrees true.
Even though, on paper, WUNR has the lowest NIF of any of the three stations in the triplex, I'm convinced that WRCA in fact gets a lot less skywave from New York City than WUNR does. The skywave interference on 1200 is probably worse than that on 1600 but you don't notice it as much because of WKOX's higher power and more favorable directional patterns.
No doubt, but the FCC Actions report referenced in the FCC Daily Digest (available by subscription at the FCC Web site) didn't report it until yesterday, Friday, 5/22/09. These reports seem to run a few days behind the actual actions. I have not figured out, as you obviously have, how to keep ahead of the reports that the FCC publicizes.(The Other) Big John said:The FCC CDBS reports that WUNR's License to Cover was granted today (5/19/2009). This was also the final day of WUNR's Program Test Authority.
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No doubt, but the FCC Actions report referenced in the FCC Daily Digest (available by subscription at the FCC Web site) didn't report it until yesterday, Friday, 5/22/09. These reports seem to run a few days behind the actual actions. I have not figured out, as you obviously have, how to keep ahead of the reports that the FCC publicizes.
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Sorry to be so late replying Dan. I have been up in Washington, DC riding my motorcycle in the anual "Rolling Thunder Ride For Freedom" and just got back home. Anyway, here goes. I go to the following link,
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_sear.htm
and just fill in the neccessary blanks. Usually the State and the prior days date.
No doubt, but the FCC Actions report referenced in the FCC Daily Digest (available by subscription at the FCC Web site) didn't report it until yesterday, Friday, 5/22/09. These reports seem to run a few days behind the actual actions. I have not figured out, as you obviously have, how to keep ahead of the reports that the FCC publicizes.
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Sorry to be so late replying Dan. I have been up in Washington, DC riding my motorcycle in the anual "Rolling Thunder Ride For Freedom" and just got back home. Anyway, here goes. I go to the following link,
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_sear.htm
and just fill in the neccessary blanks. Usually the State and the prior days date.
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