Re: Today's L(garble)T(garble)A(garble)R

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

ISn't 'HYN nulled NorthEast to protect WGAN?

And possible a bit to protect the former 550AM WGNG <pawtucket> RHODE
ISLAND(!)

J
----- Original Message -----
From: <anastasi@javanet.com>
To: <lglavin@lycos.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Today's L(garble)T(garble)A(garble)R


>
> "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com> wrote on
>  Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:31 PM
>
> > MY observation about a New England-based station with the same problem:
> > WHYN-AM 560 in Springfield, MA.
> > I frequently visit Western Massachusetts and upstate NY, and travel via
> > the Mass Pike and once in a while during foliage season Route 20.
> > WHYN-AM's null (or should I say nullS) seems to go on for miles.  My
> > theory is that for a very long time, it broadcast with 1,000 watts
> > days then increased its daytime power a couple of decades ago to 5,000
> > watts.  In the interim, a 560 was built in Catskill, NY.  So I surmise
> > the pattern had to protect WMCA in The Apple and the 560 in Catskill.
> > Adam is too young to obseve this phenomenon while driving, but have
> > any others out there in BRIGland had the same experience?
> >
>
> Laurence, not being an engineer I have no idea what the word "null" means
or
> even a clue about what you just said in plain English.  :)  But I can tell
> you this though.  I live in Amherst, which is roughly 18-20 miles
northeast
> of Springfield, and WHYN-AM comes in with static during the day, and is
> non-existent at night.  When we first moved out to this area code back in
> 1985, we lived in South Deerfield for two years.  South Deerfield is about
> 13 miles north of where I am now, and up there I wouldn't have even known
> WHYN-AM existed if I wasn't a radio DXer.  But for some reason, as Adam
> noted, WHYN is consistently the highest rated AM radio station out here.
>
> Brian
>



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