"dxAce" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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I don't know what
sort of oddball signal black hole you have there, but in the rest of
the
real world, low power does work.

No, it does not. In evaluations of the listening of several million
Arbitron
diary keepers, where listening locations were identified by ZIP code,
less
than 5% of the listening time was outside the 54 dbu contour. Most, 85%
was
inside the 70 dbu. Interestingly, this matches the reception
characteristics
of most consumer grade radios.

Your anecdotal evidence is amusing, but there is no data you provided
that
shows that anyone even listens to these facilities at the distance you
mention. We all have such experiences... I got the exciter of one of my
transmitters in Ecuador (located about 3000 feet above Quito) nearly 200
km
away on a friend's hacienda; unfortunately, the fact that only the
exciter
was on made for a long drive back to the city and up the hill.

You had no transmitters.


I just recently gave you the name of a person of enormous recognition and
integrity... the past chairperson of the Pulitzer Prize board and a 30-year
member of the Interamerican Press Association, publisher of a significant
newspaper in Kansas: Edward Seaton.

Until you contact him and ask if I owned radio stations in Ecuador in the
period between 1964 and 1970, you can shut up.

Edward and I were friends while he was in Ecuador on a Fulbright Scholarship
grant he received after graduating from Harvard. He's been in my stations,
heard them on the air and knows about them. What better proof could you want
than someone of such a prominent public profile?