RHF wrote:
For One and All,

My 'other' Crazy Idea was to require each 50 KW
Clear Channel AM/MW Radio Station to have a 5 KW
Shortwave Simulcast.

Every 50 KW Clear Channel In The USA With A Difference
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortw...a/message/9520

Plus require all 50 KW Clear Channel AM/MW Radio Stations
to carry locally produced 'original' Programming from
5 AM to 10 AM in the Mornings and 7 AM to 12 Midnight
in the Evenings.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Boston should be
"The Voice of New England" and not a Dr. Laura repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from New York should
be "The Voice of New York" and not a Sean Hannity repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Atlanta should
be "The Voice of the South" and not a Al Franken repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Miami should be
"The Voice of Hot Miami" and not a Terry Gross repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Chicago should be
"The Voice of Mid-America" and not a Rush Limbaugh repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from St Louis should
be "The Voice of St Louis" and not a Phil Hendrie repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from New Orleans should
be "The Voice of the Big Easy" and not a Jim Bohannon repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Dallas should
be "The Voice of Texas" and not a Mike Gallagher repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Denver should be
"The Voice of the Rockies" and not a Ken Hamblin repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Phoenix should
be "The Voice of Arizona and the South West" and not a
G. Gordon Liddy repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Seatle should
be "The Voice of the Pacific North West" and not a
Michael Medved repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from San Francisco
should be "The Voice of the California" and not a
Michael Savage repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Los Angeles
should be "The Voice of the Hollywood and La-La-Land"
and not a Michael Reagan repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Anchorage should
be "The Voice of Alaska" and not a Randi Rhodes repeat.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Honolulu should
be "The Voice of the Hawaii and the Pacific" and not a
Bruce Williams repeat.

Clear Channel Am/MW Radio Stations -USA-
http://www.ac6v.com/clearam.htm#USA
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Big Voices on the Air
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/Big%20Voices.html
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ABOUT - The Clear Channel AM/MW Radio Broadcasters :
- by Mark Durenberger
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortw...a/message/2160
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Part # 1 - Behind the Clear-Channel Matter
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/general/clears.htm
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Part # 2 - Superpowers Crank It Up
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/general/clears2.htm
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Part # 3 - The Clear-Channel Matter before NARBA 1941
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/general/clears3.htm
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Part # 4 - The Clear-Channel Matter after NARBA 1941
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/general/clears4.htm
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Part # 5 - FCC's Landmark 1961 Report and Order
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/general/clears5.htm
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Part # 6 - The Path to the Final Breakup of the Clears
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/general/clears6.htm
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USA Map of the Night Time AM/MW 50 KW Stations
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...rp/amradio.htm
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AM/MW Clear Channel and 50 KW AM/MW Radio Stations :
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* Listed by FREQUENCY
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...namrp/freq.htm
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* Listed by CALL SIGN
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...namrp/call.htm
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* Listed by STATE
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...amrp/state.htm
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* Listed by CITY
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...namrp/city.htm
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The Clear Channel Stations in the US Station History
Section of The Broadcast Archive.
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/ccs.htm
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FCC AM/MW Radio Station Inquiry
[ FCC AM/MW Radio Database Query ]
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html
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"Behind the Clear-Channel Matter"
-by- Mark Durenberger
- The History of the Clear Channels -
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/clear01.html
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/clear02.html
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/clear03.html
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/clear04.html
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/clear05.html
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/clear06.html
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Talk Radio Hosts
http://www.radiotalk.org/hosts.html
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Major US Cities - Map
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/cities/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geo...maps/usa.shtml
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and that is how i feel about that ~ RHF
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Shortwave Listener Antennas = http://tinyurl.com/ogvcf
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/
SWL Antenna Group = http://tinyurl.com/ogvcf
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The Shortwave Listener's Blessing :
SWL BLESSING = http://tinyurl.com/s2bjm
May You Never Tire of Listening to the Radio and Always
have Strong Signals and Noise Free Reception ~ RHF {ibid}
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortw...a/message/9233
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- - - In ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortw...a/message/9518
- - - "Jay Heyl" yahoogroups@... wrote:

On 5/14/06, R H F rhf-mail@... wrote:

Soap-Box-Time - A Federal Law allowing each US "State"
to have a Co-Located DRM Shortwave Radio Transmitter
that would simulcasting their local Public Radio (NPR? /
PRI?) content to the whole State would do much for the
future of Shortwave Radio and DRM in the USA. For State
Wide Coverage a power level of 5 KW to 10 KW would get
the job done.

To what purpose? I know I don't want my tax dollars going to fund any
state-wide broadcast of NPR. And to do it just to promote SW/DRM is a
waste of money.

I also think you're overestimating the coverage of a single
transmitter, particularly for the large western states. Even though
it's digital, it's still SW, subject to the same means of the signal
reaching the receiver. The groundwave will cover less territory than
MW, and beyond that it's up to tropospheric bounce to get the signal
to the receivers. I can't imagine a single transmitter covering all of
California or Montana or Texas.

I agree the restriction against domestic SW is rather silly,
especially considering all the religious stations that -- wink, wink
-- broadcast to destinations somewhere just beyond the other side of
the continent. It would be interesting if the law was changed to allow
domestic, commercial SW broadcasts.

-- Jay


NPR? You feel there's not enough communist stations on SW right now?

The BEST idea for 50 kw clear-chanel stations would be to actually give
them a CLEAR channel to operate on, like they had 50 years ago.

"Somebody Somewhere" wrote in message
ups.com...

RHF wrote:
For One and All,

My 'other' Crazy Idea was to require each 50 KW
Clear Channel AM/MW Radio Station to have a 5 KW
Shortwave Simulcast.

Every 50 KW Clear Channel In The USA With A Difference
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortw...a/message/9520

Plus require all 50 KW Clear Channel AM/MW Radio Stations
to carry locally produced 'original' Programming from
5 AM to 10 AM in the Mornings and 7 AM to 12 Midnight
in the Evenings.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Boston should be
"The Voice of New England" and not a Dr. Laura repeat.

Are you nuts?

The clear channel stations (Clear Channel, with caps, is a company) are
local stations in all but hours of darkness. In other words, they simply use
the 50 kw to get a solid signal over their metro area and a bit of
surrounding territory, but they are not daytime monsters.

At night, nearly nobody listens to AM radio. Maybe 2% of the population. So
the times when a clear gets some additional coverage, there is nobody
listening. It is hard to even give away 7 to midnight ad time.

Radio is a local medium. There is no gain from having audience outside the
metro at all. Each station sells its local broadcasts to local advertisers
or national ones buying on a market by market basis. 60% of all 12+ US
population is in the top 50 metro areas, so there is not much interest in
anything else.

And what frequencies would you put the SW broadcasts on? Although there are
a lot fewer SW station on the longer wavebands, there is still a lot of
interference... and 5 kw is not much, unless you propose using the tropical
band.