Re: Nova Scotia Boston DX

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 NewHUC@aol.com wrote:

> It was always my understanding that 'BZ's directional pattern west was to
> give better coverage to the original city of license, Springfield.  this was
> the rationalization to shutting off the synchronous transmission in
> Springfield.

This seems unlikely.  The WBZ facility, with its directional pattern,
dates from 1940.  The synchronous transmission in Springfield was shut
down around 1962.

I don't know how much better the signal would have been if WBZA had still
been operating, but I found, when I was at UMass in 1963-67, that WBZ was
not readily audible in Amherst at night. 

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