Question city

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Mon, 31 May 1999 16:32:54 -0400, "Fitzpatrick, Mike" <mfitzpatrick@wwlp.com> said:

> First, Is the WWKX tower accessible in Cumberland? I drove down "tower hill
> rd" but couldn't find the tower.

Yes, but you have to get out and walk a hundred yards or so.  It may
be hard to spot with full foliage.

> Second, does anyone know where the WPRI TV tower is? Is it somewhat close to
> WJAR's in Rehoboth? I wish the FCC's website had a mapping feature for TV
> like they do for the FM....

According to my records:

WPRI-TV: 195 Homestead Ave., Rehoboth
WNAC-TV/WWBB: 33 Pine St., Rehoboth
WJAR/WSNE: 89 Pine St., Rehoboth
WLNE: off Main Rd. (Rt. 77) , near Seapowet Ave., Tiverton
WELH: Wheeler School athletic facility, Seekonk
WSKO: King Philip & Dexter Rds., E. Prov.
WPMZ/WHJY/etc.: Eastern Ave. (east section), E. Prov.
WRIB: Water St., E. Prov.
WRNI: 1110 Douglas Av. (Rt. 7), N. Prov.
WWLI, WPRO-FM/WSBE/WLNE-LP: Neutaconcanut Hill, Johnston
WRIW-LP: Peck Hill, Scituate
WPRO: 1502 Wampanoag Trl., E. Prov.
WHJJ: north of WPRO on Wampanoag Trl., E. Prov.

You can learn a lot of the history by looking up these locations in
Delorme Street Atlas USA.  They show the old channel 16, WRNI in its
WHIM incarnation, WSKO as WEAN, WLNE as WTEV, and WWLI as WPJB.

> which leads me to my third question....

> is anyone else having problems accessing the FCC FM/AM/TV Database? Ive
> tried both at home and here at work with no response.

My nightly database update has failed for the past three days.
Traceroute reports:

traceroute to infoserver.fcc.gov (192.104.54.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  s1-1 (18.24.4.1)  0.684 ms  0.561 ms  0.543 ms
 2  lcs-3h5 (18.10.3.5)  1.173 ms  0.970 ms  0.946 ms
 3  radole (18.24.10.3)  1.284 ms  1.515 ms  1.230 ms
 4  B24-RTR-LCS-LINK.MIT.EDU (18.201.1.1)  2.070 ms  1.864 ms  1.724 ms
 5  EXTERNAL-RTR-FDDI.MIT.EDU (18.168.0.12)  3.005 ms  2.422 ms  3.630 ms
 6  f1-0.cambridge2-br2.bbnplanet.net (192.233.33.6)  5.556 ms  2.774 ms  2.725 ms
 7  * f1-0.cambridge2-br2.bbnplanet.net (192.233.33.6)  3.392 ms !H *

This suggests that the entire FCC network is off the air (no pun
intended).

- -GAWollman

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