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Are there that many daytimers left?
In the USA, AM daytime-only stations are "Class D". This used to be a strictly daytime-only classification, but quite a few years ago many of these stations were reallocated with "flea power" nighttime signals, as low as 1 WATT. Today, "Class D" AM stations are limited to a maximum of 50,000 watts daytime, but only a maximum of 250 watts at night. I don't know what the lowest DAYTIME power level for North American AM stations is; despite it traditionally being 250 watts, there are a number of stations using less than that during the daytime; I've heard of one 170-watt daytimer, and right in my own backyard, 1170 WWTR in Bridgewater, NJ is licensed for 243 watts, non-directional, daytime-only. In that case, it's a long story -- the station originated as WBRW, a 500-watt directional daytimer which went dark in 1990. Their license was subsequently bought out with the intent of getting it back on the air under new ownership. Unfortunately, the original WBRW transmitter site was vandalized beyond repair and the towers were taken down, so in order to help simplify the construction of a new site, they were granted a Construction Permit to change to a one-tower non-directional signal, which necessitated the power reduction to 243 watts. So, in effect, New Jersey got a "new" AM daytimer in 1997 -- even though the FCC stopped accepting applications for new daytimers a decade earlier! |
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