RE: WILD sold

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

Follow-up on WILD power....

There was somewhat of a drop (or so it appeared at 6:00PM) However, I seem
to be getting some 'Skywave'-type effect where WILD's signal goes in and out
like a skywave would, so I cannot be sure about the CH power drop.

On the scene in Derry NH..
(GE Superadio I)

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Paul
> Hopfgarten
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 4:20 PM
> To: Dan Strassberg; Martin J. Waters; inorm99@earthlink.net
> Cc: bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: RE: WILD sold
>
>
> I have heard the 'cut out" for 1-2 seconds at 2hr pre-sunset, though I'm
> usually still to close to the TX to notice a power difference
> (still at work
> in Boston).
>
> -Paul Hopfgarten
> -Derry NH
> (I'll check it out today, would that be 6PM for the month of May?)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Strassberg [mailto:Dan.Strassberg@worldnet.att.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 6:49 AM
> > To: Paul Hopfgarten; Martin J. Waters; inorm99@earthlink.net
> > Cc: bri@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: Re: WILD sold
> >
> >
> > Clearly, you've been listening to WBOT on a better radio than
> > I've tried. As
> > for WILD and the CH power cut (to 1 kW), do you mean you've
> actually heard
> > WILD cut power two hours before sunset or increase power two hours after
> > sunrise? If so, you're the first person I've run into that's
> > noticed it and
> > mentioned it. If you had said that, during CH, WILD is bothered on the
> > fringes by daytime skywave from WBAL, I could believe that. Although I
> > haven't noticed it (the signal where I live must be close to 10
> > mV/m), I've
> > often wondered why I haven't. The fact is, though, that WBAL
> > doesn't seem to
> > come in like gangbusters here until Baltimore sunset, when it
> switches to
> > directional operation.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
> > Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Hopfgarten <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>
> > To: Martin J. Waters <mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu>; inorm99@earthlink.net
> > <inorm99@earthlink.net>
> > Cc: bri@bostonradio.org <bri@bostonradio.org>
> > Date: Monday, May 15, 2000 8:57 PM
> > Subject: RE: WILD sold
> >
> >
> > >My feeling is there is not much area that WILD covers
> 'cleanly' that WBOT
> > >doesn't cover that has any minority community to speak of. Lowell and
> > >Lawrence, 2 "potential" areas for an urban station are somewhat far for
> > >WILD, though with a decent radio, it might be listenable, but would be
> > >affected by the 2-hour before sunset 'critical hours' power drop.
> > >
> > >WBOT makes it to about Woburn when heading due North out of
> Boston before
> > >the signal starts hitting some trouble (seems to be a 'line' for
> > WINQ from
> > >Winchedon MA that hits Woburn enough to mess with 'BOT's signal
> > there. WBOT
> > >actually recovers a little further north on I-93 for about 5 more miles
> > >before it becomes unlistenable.)
> > >
> > >IMHO, the simulcast would be tantamount to having 1090 off the air. The
> > >leased foreign language (spanish religious, perhaps) might make sense.
> >
> >
> >
>