Re: WRKO Update

[Norm Rosen <inorm99@earthlink.net>]

I live about 3 miles form the WBIX transmitter site.

The reason that you can't the "uncopyable" signal is the fact that they
leave the air at Philadelphia sunset.
They are 40 KW during the day, 22KW during critical hours.
They have a CP for 2500 watts at night which may be acted on later this year
according to Alex Langer


Hakim Madjid wrote:

> At night (as was the case in their WMEX incarnation)
> is essentially un copyable at night in most of the Boston area.
> I think they may actually go off the air.
>
> For what its worth, a few months ago I was driving back from
> Lenox in Western Massachusetts, and curiously, I got a useable
> and listenable signal from WBIX the whole length of the Mass
> Pike.
>
> 73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Faneuf" <tklaundry@juno.com>
> To: <bobonradio@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <tklaundry@juno.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 9:28 AM
> Subject: Re: WRKO Update
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:25:54 -0700 (PDT) "Bob Nelson...WMWM"
> > <bobonradio@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > I was walking in Ipswich yesterday, listening to the
> > > Red Sox game on my Walkman, and for a moment scanned
> > > the dial. WBIX (1060) came in very well, leading me
> > > to wonder: their signal really does a lot better
> > > than you'd think, so why did they abandon talk (as
> > > WMEX) so quickly for business talk?
> >
> > Has WBIX been able to upgrade their night time signal? if not you can't
> > really get them once the power down/pattern change occurs especially
> > during the winter months.
> >
> > df