Re: Alternate Site Backups

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Other than WBZ does _any_ Boston-area AM have an 
auxiliary TX at a separate location? WEEI could 
definitely transmit from the WRKO site and WRKO could 
most likely transmit from the WEEI site. Moreover, I 
suspect that each station has a 50-kW backup that could 
be retuned for the other frequency. But I doubt very 
much that the filter networks that would allow diplexing 
are in place at either site.

If one site were rendered inoperable, my guess is that 
it would take six weeks of furious activity to get the 
station back on the air at anything close to full power 
from the other site--and that would require the utmost 
cooperation from equipment suppliers. Now suppose that 
this were to happen as the result of a terrorist attack. 
Just where would we get our civil-defense information?

On the other hand, either station could probably be up 
and running with 5 kw or so nondirectional from the 
other site in a metter of days. But in a civil-defense 
emergency would days be acceptable?

--
dan.strassberg@att.net
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> At 02:33 PM 9/24/01 -0400, Michael P Fitzpatrick Jr. wrote:
> 
> >In light of the recent events in NYC, a question I've seen come up is "well
> >how come they didn't have an alternate site backup?".  This brings up a good
> >question, which TV stations have alternate site backups around the northeast
> >or New England?
> 
> I can definitely say that we do not have an alternate site for Channel 7, 
> and as far as I know none of the Boston stations do either.  WBZ radio has 
> their alternate AM site at the studio that we all know about.
> ---
> Larry Weil
> Lake Wobegone, NH
>