Re: WARE-WKBR

[Jibguy@aol.com]

Well, you asked the right guy, having done the proofs on WKBR a few years 
back, required to resurrect it from the dead.   KBR started in 1946 as a 250w 
or 500w station on 1240.  Then in late 1959, it went 5kw DA-2, and moved to 
1250.  So, actually WARE was on 1250 first.  KBR has had the same night 
pattern since 1959, but since '59 the day pattern changed somewhere around 
1964.    K's night pattern is a big bubble going northeast, east, southeast, 
south and south-south-west.  But it's two nulls: one goes right at WARE and 
the other goes north-north-west,  and a tiny nipple protruding to the 
west-north-west.   K's signal at night only goes about 5 miles in the two 
nulls.
    A station that no one has thought of, is the actual one that hurts KBR 
the most at night, and that is WMTR 1250 in Morristown NJ.
    BTW, WARE is only 59 air-miles from KBR's Goffstown 5-tower site.  So a 
move by WARE further towards Worcester would be a tight fit.  A very crowded 
frequency.
    For you directional array freaks out there, KBR uses: At night, 4 towers 
in a row, not quite east-west, but tilted,  as tower site is west-north-west 
of Manchester.  At daytime, KBR uses 3 towers in a triangle to produce a 
signal going north, south and west.    In all, there are 5 towers.  A very 
interesting array.  Love it!  Had I not accidentally gotten Worcester (WNEB) 
at the same time, I would have kept WKBR.   
------jibguy

In a message dated 2/1/00 9:56:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu writes:

<<         I have no idea what Manchester's night pattern is (TLTLIU),
 although I bet they protect Pittsburgh, too, which probably is why WARE can
 exist at all as a full-time station. WARE started in 1949, and I assume
 Manchester is older, no?  >>