RE: WNTN (was WPTR)

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

Just an FYI....

It was ALWAYS I-84 west of Hartford...

East of Hartford, to Sturbridge MA, it was I-84, then I-86, then back to
I-84 after they decided to scrap the Hartford-Providence X-way (which would
have been signed as I-84).

-Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of
> Jibguy@aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 12:36 AM
> To: dan.strassberg@att.net; fitzradio@map.com
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WNTN (was WPTR)
>
>
> In a message dated 1/14/00 8:45:38 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> dan.strassberg@att.net writes:
>
> <<  When I went to the WDZK (1550 Bloomfield) site, I only saw
> three towers.
>  > They are very hard to spot. They are located in a field at the
> end of a
> dirt
>  > road
>  > (Mucko Rd, off of Woodland Ave, off of Ct Rte 187). >>
>
> I never knew the following as pure fact, but I freqented I-86 (or was it
> I-84) in Ct, west of Hartford, back in the days when
> 1550-Connecticut got and
> built its CP.   All of a sudden I saw 6 (SIX) towers suddenly
> appear on the
> north side of I-86 (84?) about 7 miles west of Hartford.   Towers
> are not all
> in a row, but in some sort of parallelogram.   And I THINK, a
> broker, long
> time ago was peddling the "6 tower station" in Bloomfield.........
>
> ---jibguy  (towerwatcher)
>