Re: Sunday on Utopian Radio:Easy99.1(wasRe:NERW 3/19: Jocks Go To Court Over...)

[Dan.Strassberg@att.net]

OK, I agree that when I'm not in the mood for something 
a little more classical (at which point I usually tune 
in WBOQ--provided I'm somewhere where I can receive it 
decently), WPLM-FM has the best music on the commercial 
FM dial.

But the signal? I describe it as a rimshot, wherever you 
go in southern New England. I live atop Belmont Hill, on 
the west side--near Lexington. It's one of the highest 
spots in greater Boston. WPLM-FM comes in pretty well on 
my SuperRadio III on the first floor and on a decent 
(also mono) AM-FM portable upstairs. In one car in the 
garage, which is under the house, I get a solid stereo 
light. On the other car in the same garage, the stereo 
light flickers continually. The rest of my radios don't 
pick up WPLM-FM at all.

Driving to work, as I approach Watertown Square, WPLM 
becomes _very_ iffy. And things get worse as I proceed 
up Galen St toward Newton Corner. Driving out Washington 
St toward W Newton, reception gets progressively worse. 
This happens even in the car whose radio picks the 
station up in stero without problems in my garage.

I'm beginning to wonder whether the problem is front-end 
overload. I thought that all of the FMs were gone from 
the 128 antenna farm except WBUR, WBOS, and WCRB. Are 
three stations, which are the equivalent of full Class 
Bs in my direction, at a distance of maybe three airline 
miles from W Newton enough to totally clobber WPLM-FM?

The cars are both old, but the radios are still OK 
(except for bad ignition noise on AM in one of the cars).

You wrote:

> From Provincetown to Providence and from Falmouth to Fitchburg!

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