Re: Tropo (is it still going on?)

[mike778707@wjbqmail.com]

there is a 102.5 from Long Island that comes in sometimes
around here. My guess is it might be bleed over from the
class B 102.1, which transmits from the WWLP-TV tower in
Agawam.

--MIKE


> 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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