Re: History Timelines etc. (99.5 division)

[Rick Levy <radiowaves@CompuServe.COM>]

>>Could American Tower Systems get a new client for the WEGQ stick in
Middleton?  Seems to me (without trying to dig out the relevant maps
from the moving boxes...) that it's 17 km from that tower to WERS.<<

ARS, owner of ATS, might not care for this for competitive reasons.  Also,
99.5 is a Lowell station.  One has to ask whether it would still cover
Lowell with 3.16 mV/m or better.

>>Better yet, if the owners of 99.1 and 99.5 were sufficiently motivated,
they could probably do a deal to turn in the 99.1 license, move 99.5B
to 99.3B or B1, allocated to Watertown or some other nearby-to-Boston
community, and put the stick at 128 or the Pru.<<

Class B1?  The equivalent of a 4-1/2 -fold power cut, and its coverage
decrease, would hardly amount to much of a competitive advantage.  They
might be just as well off staying where they are.

>>It's not unprecedented; larger-scale frequency shifts have been done
in the Southwest and elsewhere...<<

In the congested Northeast, it could be fun to watch.
 

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