Re: WPTR

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Drive around the Boston metro sometime and try listening 
to WBNW 1120. It's amazing what siting an AM TX in a 
gravel pit can do to the signal. My guess is that the 
Mechanicville signal must come out of an area of 
similarly poor soil conductivity.

Generally speaking, the soil conductivity in the Hudson 
Valley is quite good and it's not that bad on the New 
York side of Lake Champlain. As you go west from the 
Capital District along the Mohawk, it gets even better. 
Between Rochester and Buffalo, it's great, though it's 
nowhere near as good as in, say, South Dakota. But in 
the Catskills and the Adirondacks, it's quite poor.

> Yup and yup. That signal's always been horrid.... how 5000 watts days can
> be that bad is beyond me.
>