[TowerTalk] A question of newbie proportions.

[AA6DX - Mark]

Contact this guy .. Richard Green, WB6DOD
rich at richgreen.net
Broadcast Engineer  Extraordinaire ... \ knows that "stuff"
Mark  AA6DX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: "Michael Frankson" <michaelcfrankson at yahoo.com>; 
<towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] A question of newbie proportions.


> In general the FCC will want to make sure you can cover your city of 
> license
> with a given field strength (and demonstrate it in "proof of performance"
> tests), which will require a substantially larger antenna than you are
> contemplating, especially with the low power you are contemplating. I 
> don't
> know that you can get a license for "less than a city" for AM.
>
> In exchange for letting you use some extremely valuable RF spectrum, the 
> FCC
> wants to make sure you "serve the public" in the appropriate area, and 
> that
> means having a strong enough signal to be useful. For instance, you have 
> to
> have EAS equipment, and your listeners have to be able to receive the EAS
> signals reliably.
>
> For FM, sub-100W and a low tower works, given that the terrain cooperates.
> There are several FM stations near me with their antenna on a 30 foot 
> pole,
> but it's also hilly, and pole is up on the side of a hill, and is mostly
> there to keep the field strength at the ground reasonable.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Frankson" <michaelcfrankson at yahoo.com>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:08 AM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] A question of newbie proportions.