Re: wmea (ch-10 Portland)outage? & WASR Wolfeboro NH

[Sven Weil <sven@lily.org>]

Sounds like something out of the Tommyknockers :)


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Sven F. Weil
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, John Bolduc wrote:

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> Channel 10 Augusta is out of my range, but it would be interesting to not if you
> were watching via your own antenna or on cable.
> 
> I had my own strange event to report. While in Wolfeboro Monday evening around
> 6:30 PM WASR AM 1420 went apparently dead. There appeared to be a carrier, but
> it was difficult to tell as most of the AM band went dead. I was only about 3/4
> mile from the transmitter site at the time. It was if somebody had disconnected
> the antenna from the tranmission line and resulting in a trashing of most of the
> AM broadcast band in the vicinity of the station.
> 
> Driving out of town, distant stations on 1420 started coming in, only about four
> miles from the transmitter site, and the rest of the AM was back to normal.
> 
> John
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> To:
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> Hi
> 
> This evening around 6:30 I turned to ch 10 in Portland, me
> to find nothing but snow.
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