RE: RE: Sunday Globe Magazine article on Jerry Williams

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

WLS's signal here is _still_ good. I get a solid signal 
from WBPS day and night, but on most nights, I can hear 
WLS plainly if I turn the radio to null WBPS. With the 
radio so oriented, WLS often comes in so well that I 
can't hear WBPS at all. And on such nights, if I turn 
the radio to pick up WBPS as well as I can, I can still 
hear WLS quite well--so well that, on occasion, WBPS is 
not listenable.

But in Chicago, WBZ ought to be even stronger than WLS 
is in Boston, because WBZ's directional pattern makes 
its signal to the west, in effect, twice as powerful as 
WLS's signal in any direction. In consequence, it would 
definitely be possible to show that WLS's 0.5 mV/m 50% 
skywave falls several hundred miles short of Boston 
whereas WBZ's 0.5 mV/m 50% skywave covers Chicago. That 
isn't what the FCC's new data shows, however. According 
to the FCC, WSCR, WGN, WBBM, and WLS reach just barely 
east of Buffalo, whereas WBZ reaches just west of Toledo.

At least the FCC doesn't deny that WBZ's directional 
signal carries farther than do the signals of Chicago's 
nondirectional Class As. My guess, however, is that 
according to the FCC, WMVP, which is directional to the 
east, no longer reaches Leominster. If so, WCMX could 
now stay on all night with a few watts. Or by adding a 
second tower, WCMX might be able to get enough night 
power to be heard in, say, Lunenburg.
--
dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205
eFax 707-215-6367
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> > Strassberg
> > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 5:59 PM
> > To: lglavin@lycos.com; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: Re: RE: Sunday Globe Magazine article on Jerry Williams
> 
> > Also, WBZ's signal in Chicago is legendary, but WNVR, the 1030 station in
> > Vernon Hills, IL (a Chicago suburb) was just granted night power (I forget
> > how much, but I think it's several tens of watts).
> >
> 
> And WLS's signal was VERY GOOD into Boston prior to WBPS going on the air...
> 
> I used to listen to WLS quite a bit (along with WCFL/1000, as my "Chi-town
> top 40's) back in the day..
> 
> -Paul Hopfgarten
> -Derry NH
>