Re: Tropo (is it still going on?)

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 9 Oct 99,, Rob Landry wrote:

> I get a lot of complaints from people in the Brookline and Back Bay areas
> trying to listen to WCRB. Consumer radio receivers are not designed to
> deal with upwards of 100 kW blasting from the roof of a neighboring
> building.

Funny, I don't have too much trouble in Brookline, but I often have 
trouble in my office down near Government Center.  Sometimes WCRB 
comes in quite well, other times I have to keep moving the antenna.  
And I do hear interference from WROR at times.
 
On the other hand, I have been quite surprised how well WCRB reaches 
Western Massachusetts.  I'm typing this right now in a hotel room in 
Chicopee.  I can't get WCRB from here (There seems to be another 
102.5 around somewhere.).  But I did hear it today in my car while 
driving around Amherst.  Since I never heard WCRB while I was a 
student at UMass, either there are some unusual propagation 
conditions or WCRB is more powerful now than it was in the mid-60s.

Incidentally, I noticed that WHMP has been identifying itself as an 
"AMFM station."



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