Re: Andleman returns tomorrow to 1510

[Kevin Vahey <kvahey@yahoo.com>]

Dan ( or anybody)

Since the WWZN GM was quoted in the Globe that they
are running 10K at night, are they doing this on their
own until they get other problems solved?





--- Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:
> No additional towers. No zoning issues. The new day
> pattern uses the same
> two towers as are used for the current day pattern,
> which will become the
> new CH pattern. An additional phasor is what's
> needed. I believe that WWZN's
> two existing phasors reside in the ATU building at
> the base of tower 1. It's
> a steel "building"--rather like a stainless steel
> truck trailer raised up on
> concrete piers to keep it away from the flood waters
> that sometimes hit that
> side of the 411 Waverley Oaks Rd Industrial Park.
> The tower base and the
> building are surrounded by a chain-link fence to
> which is attached a painted
> wood fence so you can't (easily) look inside. There
> may be no room inside
> the ATU building for an additional phasor, but there
> should be plenty of
> room in the Tx building.
> 
> When the station was being constructed, the
> consulting engineer told me that
> the reason he designed the setup that way was that
> the owners of the station
> and the industrial park kept changing the location
> of the Tx building within
> the site. I guess the architects were still playing
> with different concepts
> for the three-story office building that was built
> on top of part of the
> ground system after the station was completed. This
> negotiation was going on
> even as the towers were going up. The engineer said
> that he had to order the
> phasors and the design had to be based on a known
> location. The tower
> locations were already fixed, so he decided to put
> the phasors in a location
> that wouldn't be changed. To do otherwise could have
> added months to the
> station's construction schedule.
> 
> Sure, if the CH and N phasors are in the ATU
> building and the D phasor is in
> the Tx building, the setup for changing patterns
> will be more complicated,
> but I still find it hard to imagine the technical
> problems being very great.
> The current day pattern is a relatively standard
> cardioid nulled to less
> than 1 kW behind the array. The new day pattern is a
> very substantially
> detuned version of the same thing. The field out the
> back is the equivalent
> of several tens of kW ND.
> 
> As far as I can see, the biggest risk and potential
> cost associated with the
> project is the cost of satisfying complaints of
> interference within the new
> 1V/m day contour. The area is quite densely
> populated. In theory, all such
> complaints in areas to the north and east of the
> site were resolved when the
> site first went on the air in 1981. Allegedly, the
> costs of interference
> abatement back then topped $1 million. The new 1 V/m
> day contour must take
> in several additional square miles to the south and
> west. However, part of
> that area consists land owned by the state and
> federal governments, and may
> not be considered to have any resident population.
> 
> As for the signal in NH being worse now than it was
> when the TX was in
> Quincy, that would likely be true in the Seacoast
> region, since part of the
> path from Quincy to that part of NH is over salt
> water. Also, my own
> listening tests showed a definite reduction in
> signal strength in the
> Hanover area after the office building was built on
> the northern part of the
> ground system. I personally witnessed the
> destruction of part of the ground
> system when conduit was being installed to bring
> power to the light
> standards that illuminate the parking lot between
> one of the towers and the
> office building. I told the guy who was supervising
> the guy with the
> grooving machine that he was cutting the station's
> ground system. He said
> "what's it to you?" and came at me in a menacing
> way. I got the hell out--in
> a hurry.
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> 617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Andleman returns tomorrow to 1510
> 
> 
> > Dan Strassberg wrote:
> >
> > >There isn't a lot of time before the CP is pulled
> for failure to
> construct.
> > >I can't figure out what Rose City (WWZN's
> licensee) has been waiting for.
> >
> > Financial or zoning issues would be my guess. 
> What's involved in making
> > the change...are there additional towers that need
> to be constructed or is
> > it just tweaking of phasing?
> >
> >
> >
> > >BTW, most recollections of 1510's terrible night
> signal during the days
> when
> > >the station held the Red Sox contract relate to
> the station's operation
> from
> > >North Quincy--before its move to 411 Waverley
> Oaks Rd in Waltham.
> WMEX/WITS
> > >ran only 5 kW-N from N Quincy, and--especially
> after the construction of
> the
> > >State St South office complex immediately to the
> west of the N Quincy
> > >site--was completely unlistenable at night in the
> western suburbs.
> >
> >
> > I can't speak for the western suburbs, but the
> signal seemed a lot better
> > here in N.H. back when the tx was in Quincy.  A
> decent portable could
> > receive it quite well (at least during the day). 
> The same radio can't
> even
> > hear 1510 today.
> >
> >
> 


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