Re: PEI

[Doug Bassett <dbassett@sover.net>]

At 15:31 05/31/1997 +0000, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>Well, I looked at a _map_ (remember them?). Bob, you sure are right! There's
>a little corridor that constitutes a mostly-salt-water path from
>Charlottown, over the fairly narrow neck of land that joins NS to NB,
>through the Bay of Fundy, to the Atlantic Ocean south of Maine, to the
>Massachusetts coast, somewhere around Boston. At this end, if you go very
>far north or south of the end of this path, the mostly-salt-water path turns
>into a path that involves a much greater distance over land. The map that I
>looked at was not very large or detailed, so I'm not sure in exactly what
>area of the Mass coast the mostly-salt-water path ends. As I said, it looks
>to be around Boston. This means that if you're in just the right spot on the
>Mass coast, you will pick up CHTN quite well during the day. [snip..]

Well, _I_ looked at a map, and it looks to me like the maximum length
saltwater path ends right around Plymouth, near Manomet Point (and maybe 3-4
miles either way). Also relatively unobstructed by land is the very tip of
Cape Cod, on the North Shore of Provincetown. 

Doug Bassett
WBVT

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