RE: WRKO Update

["Adam Rivers" <adamrivers@prodigy.net>]

Well on my stereo system with a powered Non directional antenna, I get WRKO
better than WMEX. WRKO comes in as a fringe station, and WEEI doesn't come
in much at all, and is interfered with by WRYM 840-AM in New Britain CT. I
don't get WRKO at night, I hear basically some static. WMEX is audible, WRKO
is more audible is basically what I was trying to say.

-Adam

http://adamskewlsite.freeservers.com


-----Original Message-----
From: dan.strassberg@att.net [mailto:dan.strassberg@att.net]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 4:29 PM
To: adamrivers@prodigy.net
Cc: Adam Rivers; A. Joseph Ross; bri@bostonradio.org
Subject: RE: WRKO Update


Well, WBZ's good signal in Chicopee is easy to explain.
The signal is the equvalent of 200 kW ND day and night
into a minimally efficient antenna. WRKO's good signal
is hard to explain, however. In that direction, WRKO
sends out the equivalent of about 3 kW daytime and much
less at night. Except for periods shortly after sunrise
and shortly before sunset, when the station is on day
pattern but "nighttime" conditions prevail, picking up
the station should require a very good radio, carefully
oriented and a minimum of man-made noise. Nighttime
reception ought to be a rare occurrence unless you are
using a communications receiver and a good antenna.

I have heard WRKO myself, quite clearly, shortly after
sunrise in Troy, NY. Troy must be nearly 100 miles west
(and somewhat north) of Chicopee. However, in that case,
I was clearly picking up daytime skywave.

> Out here in Chicopee, we get the signal from WMEX (or whatever it's
called)
> pretty well.. but WRKO and WBZ beam in here better than it.
>