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Re: WNZK

webcastboy said:
However, there's also a CHYR on 710 and it's in Leamington, Ontario which is right next to Detriot; there's plenty of overlap between CHYR's and WNZK's service areas. Perhaps there would be real-world interference between WNZK's new app and CHYR, even if there wasn't interference on paper. In which case someone at (or who likes) CHYR with the initials "JBC" made some noise and the FCC told them it wasn't going to happen because of cross-border political considerations.

Is it possible that the CRTC uses different standards for AM interference than the FCC does? Meaning, the FCC would've authorized WNZK's application but the CRTC denied it...and the FCC told WNZK to back off?
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CHIR was half of CHYR/CHIR, one of Canada's two dual-frequency AMs. The other pair was in (I think) SK (CFGR/CFRG Gravelbourg). CHYR operated daytime on 730; CHIR operated nights on 710. (Unlike the US, Canada assigned two sets of calls to its dual-frequency AMs.) I have a feeling that the demise of CHYR/CHIR made way for the 710 in Niagara Falls ON (now a TIS, I believe) and also for WNZK. In other words, I don't think CHYR/CHIR remains internationally notified as do nearly all other now-dark Canadian AMs. Moreover, if the Leamington pair is still notified to the US, it's not clear that it would stand in the way of a daytime power increase for WNZK. Since CHIR operated only at night and WNZK operates on 690 only during the day, an increase in WNZK's day power would not cause any new prohibited overlap with CHIR, and CHYR, 30-kHz away, though operating at higher power than did CHIR, ought to have been too distant to be of concern--especially given WNZK's directional pattern, which is nulled to the east both day and night.
 
Re: WNZK

DanStrassberg said:
Since CHIR operated only at night and WNZK operates on 690 only during the day, an increase in WNZK's day power would not cause any new prohibited overlap with CHIR, and CHYR, 30-kHz away, though operating at higher power than did CHIR, ought to have been too distant to be of concern--especially given WNZK's directional pattern, which is nulled to the east both day and night.
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Oops! What I SHOULD have said was "and CHYR, 50-kHz away from WNZK's nighttime operation, was too distant in frequency to be of ANY concern to WNZK."
 
Re: WNZK

DanStrassberg said:
Oops! What I SHOULD have said was "and CHYR, 50-kHz away from WNZK's nighttime operation, was too distant in frequency to be of ANY concern to WNZK."
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No, I don't think that's what I meant to say, after all. Here's a correction to my correction of my original statement: I believe that I MEANT to say "and CHIR...," (NOT "and CHYR..."). I think I may have demonstrated why the US decided not to follow Canada's lead on call signs for dual-frequency AMs. It sure is easy to get tangled up in the Canadian dual call signs.
 
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