Re: Beverly radio, early 60s

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 10:51 AM 7/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>-<Once the fire came, the station wasn't able to
>>get its signal past Salem (on a good day) because of the restrictions it
>had
>>to deal with, and it has been running 125 watts since.
>
>What restrictions?
>
The station was directional to protect co-channel WPEP Taunton. The new
owner, Keating Willcox, also owns WPEP (as well as WMVU (900) in Nashua NH).
Although Willcox has been granted a CP for the Beverly station to increase
to 500W DA-2 (the site is on the campus of a college in or near Beverly), I
doubt that he plans to construct--at least not for a while. One of his
recent posts at Airwaves suggests that he is waiting for a change in the FCC
rules about interference among AM stations. His hope is that the FCC will
allow stations to sell other stations the right to deliver normally
prohibited interference. Since Willcox owns both the Beverly and Taunton
stations, that rule change would allow him to increase the Beverly station's
daytime power without constructing the four-tower array specified in the CP.
(If memory serves, he would actually have to construct five towers, since
the day and night arrays could share only one tower.)

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