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WNTN AT NIGHT!

WNTN Website said:
WNTN University
Want to learn the radio business? This special new program gives you the chance to learn from the pros and get your programming on the air at WNTN.
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Tell me, Professor Wagstaff: is this school accredited? ;)
 
Accredited? how about LICENSED with the Commonwealth of MA?


University to them is brokered time to me, and as to the night operation, they are going to be streaming... BFD, unless someone saw an application for night operation.

WDZK in Ct might have an issue with it. First Adjacent WNSH will surely have something to say about it if they ever got licensed for anything more than 5 watts
 
MRBIboredop said:
WDZK in Ct might have an issue with it. First Adjacent WNSH will surely have something to say about it if they ever got licensed for anything more than 5 watts
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WNSH is second adjacent to WNTN--not first adjacent. The soil conductivity at Endicott College, where WBSH is located, is so horrendous that there is no prohibited overlap of the day operations (both ND, WNSH 30 kW, WNTN 10 kW). With WNSH running just 85W at night, it is hard to imagine what WNTN could do that would create nighttime prohibited overlap with WNSH. Even if WNTN were to diplex with WROL, which is in Saugus, not that far from Endicott (where is it--Peabody?), I doubt whether there would be any overlap of 5 mV/m contours. Remember, for WNTN to transmit from Saugus at night, it would have to remain a Class D because it could not cover its CoL (Newton) at night. And so its night power would be limited to a tad lass than 250W--but more likely a lot less.

Now, CBE is going dark soon. But like all dark Canadian AMs, it will remain internationally notified. So although the interference level on 1550 at night will drop, WNTN will still have to protect CBE as if it were still there, which means that WNTN will be limited to 3W ND at night. Since CoL coverage at night is not required of Class D AMs, the best place for WNTN--if it really wanted to operate over the air at night--would probably be the WJIB tower, which is in an area of fairly high population density. With CBE gone, coverage could possibly approximate what WJIB does with 5W--but probably not that good. No CFZM on 1550, but the combination of lower power than WJIB and a frequency more than double WJIB's would probably do in the signal right around the west side of Fresh Pond Circle. The coverage radius would be measured in feet, not miles.
 
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