2 watts on 530 would go a hell of a lot farther than you think it would. Lower wattage required at lower frequencies. It takes 50kW at 1600 to match 5kW at 600.
I'm trying to understand. Everyone I know says to operate in the X band portion of AM because I'll go further on the Talking House. Its why I chose 1630 Khz. But your saying if I was to operate on 530 and it was blank I'd go further? Honestly I never tried 530 Khz because the noise is severe down there.
The tradeoff in part 15 is the painfully small antenna. For part 15 use stick to the X-Band. Take out the antenna limit and drop frequency.
It is possible to fight a translator. See if you receive a station on the channel of a translator is moving in on near you or an adjacent channel. Then contact the full power station and say “hey, I listen to you and if translator W231AA comes on the air it will interfere with me listening to you”. If you are in the 60dBu contour of the translator they can fight it before it is built, if you are not then the translator has to be built then you remind them you can’t receive their signal anymore and they can fight it. W285EJ in Baltimore tried to go super power but a first adjacent DC station fought it and won.
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The wavelength for 530 kHz is 566m; the wavelength for 1700 kHz is 176m. We are limited to a 3m antenna by 15.219 rules. At 530 kHz, that is a 2 degree length antenna. At 1700 kHz that is a 6 degree length antenna. A good efficiency antenna is 90 degrees. So the antenna we allowed to use is more efficient in the expanded band than it is at the bottom of the band. The current AM revitalization effort allows an antenna as short as 40 degrees for a commercial station IIRC; the argument was getting approval to build tall towers is hard and keeping a signal on the air is worth using an inefficient antenna. I have seen stations use 70 degree towers all the way to 225 degree towers. (That may be why the “radiating ground lead” is such a big deal to some FCC inspectors, a 100’ elevated install for 1700 kHz could get close to the efficiency of a commercial station.)