Re: 1440 Worcester

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>]

1440 in Worcester is nondirectional days and directional nights. This has
been the case only for about the last 10 years--maybe just a bit less. The
station used to be directional full-time (although I'm pretty sure that it
used separate day and night patterns). After the station licensed to Bristol
CT (I can never remember the calls when I want to; it used to be WBIS) moved
off of 1440 and onto 1120, the Worcester station applied for and received
pemission to end directional operation during daylight hours. The old day
pattern protected Bristol. If you look at the day pattern of WBNW on 1120,
you will note that it too protects Bristol. The null in that direction isn't
very deep or broad, but it's there. WBNW (as WADN) got on the air before the
Bristol station changed frequency, and when it first moved to 1120, Bristol
was only 250W-U DA-2 (it is now 1 kW-D/500W-N DA-N), but the FCC must have
granted both 1120 applications in the same proceding.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sptseditor@aol.com <Sptseditor@aol.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:32 PM
Subject: 1440 Worcester


>At Thanksgiving-time around dusk one day, while driving south from York,
PA, to Baltimore, I picked up a signal which I swore was 1440 from
Worcester, relaying WEEI. I made a mental note of it and thought I'd check
back again at another time to see if I could pick it up at critical hours.
>
>Lo and behold, I'm driving into Lancaster, PA, this afternoon at about
5:40, and I started hearing what I thought was Glen Ordway's voice in the
background. By the time I had gotten off the highway, at 5:45, 1440 was
coming in solidly, the strongest station on a busy channel. Five minutes
later, their signal faded away.
>
>Is this an unusual catch? Does their pattern beam southwest during critical
hours? (I thought they may be non-directional, though.) Lancaster is
probably 325 miles by road from Worcester, maybe 300 or so air miles.
>
>-Sean