RE: Something else on 1670AM in Newton

["elipolo@earthlink.net" <elipolo@earthlink.net>]

Aaron, 

I believe that what you were hearing most likely actually * was * Allston-
Brighton Free Radio. I don't want to be any kind of a whistle blower, but 
I think that perhaps they've recently "tweaked" things a bit.

I've been hearing them quite listenably lately in and beyond Boston College 
and Chestnut Hill, and then into Newton Centre square, fading out shortly 
thereafter as you start heading down Centre St. toward Needham, as you said.

Into the north side of Newton, they're listenable in Newton Corner and don't 
fade until west of Newtonville.

They're covering most of the east side of Watertown, and heading north into 
Cambridge they're listenable in and beyond Harvard and Central Squares, and 
faintly audible enough to discern program content in my driveway on Summer St.  
in Somerville.

They don't seem to do quite as well East and South, they can be heard to about 
Kenmore Square easterly, southerly listenable in and beyond Coolidge Corner 
Brookline, perhaps barely making it over the hills to Brookline Village.

P.S., is this Needham St. studio actually on the air with some flea power? How 
could they be first adjacent to WRCA and WKOX?

Eli Polonsky

  
>Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:27:23 -0400
>From: "Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
>Subject: Something else on 1670AM in Newton
>
>This morning at 9am I was driving down Commonwealth Avenue in Newton, 
>turning onto Centre St. and I hear someone else on 1670AM besides 
>Allston-Brighton Free Radio.   This sounded like someone broadcasting a 
>telephone call to Moviefone and leaving the phone sitting there as the 
>automatic system kept repeating a whole bunch of listings, followed by
>repeated prompts for someone to make a selection.
>
>I was stuck in traffic heading into Newton Center (Centre and Beacon St) so 
>I got to listen for a few minutes, but it was weak to begin with and faded 
>out entirely as I crossed over the Green/D Line T tracks.
>
>Strange choice of programming for a pirate, but equally weird for a 
>commercial station.  Anyone got any ideas who it was?   I'm reasonably sure 
>it wasn't ABfree - that signal almost always disappears by the time I pass 
>Boston College, if not sooner.
>
>- - Aaron
>
>P.S. There's a studio advertising being "on air" at 1190AM and 1320AM via 
>neon signs in the windows...it's across from the McDonald's on Needham St. 
>near the FM-128 towers.   What's up with that studio?  Looks like something 
>I'd assemble in my bedroom but the audio quality is pretty good.





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