Re: Lowell & Lawrence (and Haverill?) - W L L H !

["Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>]

Early enough in the game, a third TX in Haverhill would have been possible.
There was no 1380 in Portsmouth or 1420 in Wolfboro. (I kinda doubt that
WASR would have been a problem in any case.) The biggest problem would have
been Biddeford, and back when WLLH was considring a TX in Haverhill, I don't
think that existed yet. Of course, that was all before the FCC allowed what
were then Class IV AMs to run 1 kW-D DA-D. With a TX between Lowell and
Lawrence and a pair of half-wave towers creating a figure-8 pattern with the
major axis running east-west, WLLH could have covered the entire Merrimac
valley nicely by day. And back then, the NIBYs hadn't yet organized and
real-estate prices hadn't skyrocketed, so finding a site for the daytime TX
would not have been difficult. Remember that when Class IVs were first
permitted 1 kW-D, they were still restricted to 250W-N. 250W rooftop
nighttime TXs in the downtown areas of each of the three cities would have
covered the cities pretty well and there would have been no hash
area/synchronization problem because, as you moved away from WLLH's nearest
TX, the background QRM from all of the other 1400s around the US and Canada
would have masked the signals from WLLH's other not-quite-synchronous TXs
before they became audible.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Pappalardo <Joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>
To: Roger Kirk <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:03 AM
Subject: Lowell & Lwarence (and Haverill?) - W L L H !


> You know, I 've been thinking abut the WLLH-Haverill thing.....
>
> It may have been easier to have the ida of a Lowell transmitter when they
> were picking the call letters....but a bit more difficult to do anything
> more than that.
>
> Would it have ever been possible to fire up a THIRD transmitter on 1400 in
> Haverill?
>
> Since they had an "expoeriemental lisence"...would they ever have gotten a
> lisence for a thrid "experiemental station"?
>
> Community-wise, Lowell and Lawrence are considered 'sister cities'...and
> Haverill was really an outsider in this scenario.
>
> Does having a 1490 already in Haverill affect the placement of a 1400 in
> same city?
>
> Isn't a 1400 in Haverill getting too close to WMYF-Portsmouth(1380),
> WASR-Wolfboro (1420).
>
> Maybe the idea of a Haverill transmitter was more of a "pipe dream" than
> reality.
>
> However, Lawrence had 2 signals (LLH-CCM)...Lowell had 2 (CAP-LLH), Nashua
> had 2 (OTW-SMN), haverill only had one...1490.
>
> Thoughts, comments?