RE: WWZN 1510's noncritical-hours day pattern is on

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

At night, I've heard "phase distortion" in the WWZN signal as close as
Waltham 
St. and High St. at the West Newton/Waltham line. That's just a few miles
from 
their site.

If you continue in that direction (southwesterly from their site) and join 
Route 16 westbound from West Newton square, the signal is still fairly
strong 
but there is spotty phase distortion off and on. A few miles farther up
Route 
16 in Wellesley Hills, the signal is becoming weak and subject to noise
from 
adjacent nighttime skywaves. 

By Wellesley Square just a couple more miles up, the nighttime WWZN signal
is 
practically gone (even on a nearby hill where I could see their tower
lights!) 
This must still be less than 10 miles from the transmitter.

Weston is also a very poor area for their signal at night, but it sounds to
me 
like the sharp null is slightly to the south in Wellesley.

Strangely enough, I was about 25 miles west of Albany NY last weekend and 
heard WWZN's skywave in-and-out. They and (of course) WBZ, who I could even 
hear in the daytime, were the only Boston's that seemed to make the trip.

By the way, 25 miles west of Albany at night, 50,000 watt WPTR becomes 
unlistenable!

Eli Polonsky


>Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:32:12 -0400
>From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
>Subject: WWZN 1510's noncritical-hours day pattern is on
>
>Now, if I could just figure out where that night monitor point is--the one
>where the field strength is not supposed to exceed 1.74 mV/m. The driving
>directions sounded as if they lead to a place in Newton, but I doubt
whether
>there is any point in Newton that gets such a weak signal. I can easily
>believe, however, that there are places in Weston to which WWZN delivers a
>signal that weak at night.



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