>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
>To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
>Subject: WXKS-AM At Low Power; Are They Installing WILD Transmitter?
>Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:28:17 -0500

> 
> On Saturday mornings, I listen to "Weekend Edition" on WBUR
> and set up my venerable cassette recorder to record the
> rerun of Stephanie Miller" on (usualy) WXKS-AM.  Today (07/23)
> I noticed that AM 1430 was very weak and subject to interference
> probably from AM 1430 in Amherst.  No problem...I just flipped to
> WKOX.  But then it occurred to me that perhaps they were
> installing the WILD-AM transmitter at the 99 Revere Beach Highway
> site that will be its new home.  When lower gas prices
> prevailed, I would have though nothing of driving down route 93
> and viewing the WXKS property to observe if there was mucho
> activity around the towers.  Now, not so much. People closer to
> Medford may want to check out whether WILD's CH signal seems
> stronger.

Update to this post:  I also mentioned this at radio-info.com/Boston
and a reply was posted to the effect that WXKS-AM was indeed
working on the WILD diplexing.  So Wednesday, I tuned to 1090
at 5:15 am, WILD-sign-on and I could make out a faint signal
beneath WBAL which was blasting away over it.  By 6:00 WILD
overcame the skywave at about 40 minutes after sunrise.
However I couldn't really observe any change in WILD's CH
output and it seems to be the same at midday right now.
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(what another one?)
When I was tuning in to 1090 that morning, I passed over 1110
home of WCEC-AM, COL Salem, NH (actually a town) and WCEC was
already on-the-air seemingly at full power BEFORE its
authorized sign-on time.  Hmmm...they did this a lot two
years ago, but were very punctilious all last winter.


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