Re: WNEF 91.7 almost on air

[hmglaz@webtv.net (Howard Glazer)]

Bob Nelson wrote:

>Kinda mixed feelings about this; I do like
> folk and it's good to see another
> non-comm get on there, but this will cut
> down on the range of my own station,
> WMWM (91.7, Salem). I was up around
> 
>Ipswich/Rowley/Newburyport on
> Christmas Day and WMWM was coming
> in very well. That won't be the case
> once 'NEF gets on. Oh well..
 

I wish they could have found some other frequency, because the
Newburyport signal on 91.7 won't solve WUMB problems in Swampscott,
which is where I have family -- and one relative in particular who
curses your station every time he wants to hear folk music:) But the
educational band is packed in the Boston area and I guess no other
channel was allocated to Newburyport.

I wonder if WNEF will solve the WUMB problem in Beverly.
 

>(WUMB says they were on at half power
> on Dec 21 and 22, doing tests, and they
> hope to get full FCC approval to go on
> by the second week of January.
> Apparently they'll be simulcasting
> WUMB 91.9; no idea if there will be any
> locally-originated programming.)
 

I believe an earlier posting on the WUMB site indicated that WNEF would
simulcast WUMB 100 percent.

Howard