[SBE] Monitor points

[Benedict, Raymond C]

If a station does not have monitor points on its license then the station
does not have monitor points. WBZ does not have monitor points on its
license therefor WBZ does not have monitor points.

One of the advantages of being licensed under the new rules is that the
station does not have monitor points.  Licenses granted under the new MoM
rules start with the prefix BMML.

There are a lot of them,

WTIC, WIP, WAOK, KXNT KRAK, KHTK, KILT, WHFS,etc. About 117 applications
filed or licenses granted.

WAOK and KHTK are using voltage divider sampling systems.

So, anybody want to buy a used FIM?

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>Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 23:31:31 -0700

>From: "Kevin P. Mostyn" <lists at mostyn.com>

>Subject: Re: [SBE] About WBZ

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>WBZ does not have monitor points. The Hull two-tower DA was built circa

>1940.

>

>WOR NY was one of the early stations to use a deliberately directional

>antenna, to concentrate it's signal up and down the East Coast population

>centers.

>

>Kevin Mostyn

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>-----Original Message-----

>From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Tom

>Bosscher

>Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 1:36 PM

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>Subject: [SBE] About WBZ

>

>Ray,

>

>     What this is all about is last week on the net, we were talking about

>directional AM's. We all know that WSUN in Florida was the first station

>to

>be licensed by the FCC as a DA. But WBZ, wisely, saw no reason to have

>half

>their RF signal over the ocean. So they have this simple two tower array

>that I think was designed in the 20's. Today, it is indeed licensed as a

>DA,

>but my guess is that sometime in the past, the FCC just simply gave them

>that designation.

>     The license does show phase angle and power ratio for the second

>tower,

>and CBS had to get the license modified for a new phase.monitor.

>But, do they have monitor points? Again, they were licensed to increase

>their main lobe towards the population base. And why would you need

>monitor

>points to the east, were there is no land for 3,000 miles?

>      I was the one on the net who brought the up the question as to

>whether

>or not WBZ had monitor points. And a second to it, was, why didn't NBC,

>and

>CBS do the same thing in the 20's and 30's to the New York 50 KW's? I'd

>rather have 100 kw towards land than 50 KW.

>

>     Anyway, tonight at 8pm Eastern, on IRLP reflector 9615 and Echolink

>reflector 96150.

>

>     tom bosscher K8TB

>

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