On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Bruce <k1fz@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> AM broadcast band antennas 5/8 & 1/2 wave tall are rarely used any more.
> I noticed a reduction of the tall AM towers starting about the 1960's.
>
> 73
> Bruce-K1FZ
>
Wouldn't that have corresponded to the FCC's reduction in "clear-channel"
strategies, and more local market driven commercial agendas? When I was a
kid in the early 50's I got a QSL card from WOAI and WHO for sending them a
postcard telling them I was hearing them in Columbus, Ohio. And the whole
point of the 1937 Brown, Lewis and Epstein study was that you DIDN"T need
tall towers for daytime coverage.
73, Guy.
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