Re: Re: new FM allocations?

[hopfgapr@sprynet.com]

You may be thinking of the 720 allocation that was originally for Billerica. That allocation is now in Hanover NH (WQTH is the allocated calls, and IIRC, the ZBA and Plan Bds up there have prevented them from building the appropriate towers)...

Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

SteveOrdinetz <steveord@wavewizard.com> wrote:
> Dan Strassberg wrote:
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>As for AM frequencies that might work in this area, I've wondered for a long
>time whether a 540 station couldn't be built in the Merrimac Valley or
>southern NH. 


Isn't/wasn't there an AM allocation available in (I believe) Billerica?
Somewhere in the middle of the band maybe?  Not likely that anyone would
find enough land and make it thru the zoning red tape to make it ever
happen, though.




This station would have to be directional days to protect the
>550s in Pawtucket RI and Waterbury VT and the 540 in Islip NY. 560 in
>Portland might also be a problem, but probably not. At night, the new
>station would have to protect the skywave service of CBK in Saskatchewan. I
>don't think that Islip would require protection because I think it's a Class
>D, although the night power is very close to 250W, and if the antenna
>efficiency is sufficient, Islip might be a Class B, which would have to be
>protected. The problem, of course, would be finding enough properly zoned
>land for a directional facility on 540. The lower you go on the dial, the
>more land you need. So much land would be needed that there is, at best,
>minimal likelihood of finding a suitable parcel at a price such a station
>could afford.
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>Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
>Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Nelson...WMWM 
>To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>
>Date: Sunday, April 15, 2001 12:45 AM
>Subject: new FM allocations?
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>>Which leads me to wonder: are there any FM (or AM)
>>frequencies in the Boston area which are allocated
>>to certain towns but nobody ever put a station on
>>there? Or, if the FCC got a proposal to allocate
>>a frequency, would they act on such an idea? I mean,
>>if some people who wanted to establish a non-comm
>>station on the North Shore would go to the FCC
>>saying 89.3 could be a good frequency, would they
>>act? Maybe, maybe not...Somehow I get the idea
>>that the FCC doesn't want to allocate any more
>>frequencies in this area, and we know how Low Power
>>FM is not really going anywhere at the moment...
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