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WPEN granted license to cover CP for increased day power

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DanStrassberg

Notice of the grant of a license to cover was in today's (9/2/2011) FCC Daily Digest. It has been just about 90 days since the application for a license was filed in early June. The day power is nominally 43.5 kW, but due to the efficiency of the antenna system, you could call it the equivalent of 50 kW. Similarly, you could say that the 21 kW night power is equivalent to 25 kW.
 
DanStrassberg said:
Notice of the grant of a license to cover was in today's (9/2/2011) FCC Daily Digest. It has been just about 90 days since the application for a license was filed in early June. The day power is nominally 43.5 kW, but due to the efficiency of the antenna system, you could call it the equivalent of 50 kW. Similarly, you could say that the 21 kW night power is equivalent to 25 kW.
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What's that mean to me just as a listener to the station?
 
It means you should be listening to the station on 97.5 FM like the rest of us.
 
Looking at both patterns, it looks like they're both hitting Jersey quite well. Night pattern is directed a bit more SE than the day one, though.
 
Well perhaps the AM will cover the spots that FM hafta protect in South Jersey? Then again that's not there markit.
Why else would they bother?
 
WhotonyD said:
What's that mean to me just as a listener to the station?
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On the Jersey shore during the day, WPEN may very well be the strongest Philadelphia AM signal. If not THE strongest, it's gotta be pretty close. Because of its narrower pattern, WNTP may be a little stronger, but not much. And isn't the WNTP transmitter a little further from, say, Atlantic City than the WPEN daytime transmitter is? It wouldn't take much additional distance to reduce WNTP's signal to second place. Because of its lower frequency, WWJZ may be stronger during the day on the Jersey shore than either WPEN or WNTP, but WWJZ is licensed to Mount Holly NJ, not to Philadelphia.
 
DanStrassberg said:
isn't the WNTP transmitter a little further from, say, Atlantic City than the WPEN daytime transmitter is?
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Very true.  WPEN-AM's daytime transmitter is in Overbrook in west Philly.  WNTP is in Lafayette Hill, about 8 miles west of WPEN. 

PEN's night transmitter is about 7 miles west of WNTP with 10kw, as opposed to WPEN's night signal of 21KW. 
 
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