WMEX/WITS/WMRE

[dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net]

In fact, there _was_ a way that WITS could have restored 
its 5-kW night signal to the rather pathetic level that 
existed before the construction of the office complex 
just west of the Squantum site. The station could have 
retained the Squantum site for daytime operation and 
moved its night site to the WEZE (now WPZE) site in 
Milton, just a short distance away. The office complex 
is east of that site so, the shielding effect is of no 
consequence. The signal doesn't go very far east before 
it reaches the water.

The 1260 towers are in the proper orientation to allow 
the design of a pattern very similar to 1510's old night 
pattern. Moreover, there are three towers, which might 
have simplified the design because WITS used only two 
towers at night.

However, this "solution" would most definitely not have 
solved the problem of poor coverage in the western 
suburbs. It would simply have restored the signal to its 
pathetic level of the pre-State St South days.

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