Re: WBZ Reception Is Worsening

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

>Rob wrote--
>According to J. Leonard Batchelder, secretary of the Mass. Bay Railroad
>Enthusiasts, WBZ once had a transmitter site in Millis.

Yup.  They moved there in 1931, the same year they swapped WBZ and WBZA-- 
originally, WBZ was the call for the Springfield station while WBZA was for 
Boston, but in March of 1931, the two were switched, and the new tranny was 
to help get the station heard better in Boston-- there had been endless 
complaints throughout the 20s about poor reception, and this was supposed 
to fix it.  Of course, by 1941, the station's transmitter was in Hull, and 
there you are.

Btw, does anything remain from the old tranny sites?  I visited the remains 
of the WEEI/Edison operation in Weymouth and found very little that is 
recognisable.  I am about to check out the site of the WMEX and WNAC 
transmitters in Squantum, having finally gotten actual addresses, but doubt 
I'll find much left.