RE: WBPS cranks up the volume

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

And I read 60 Watts, which surprised me because I did not think that the 
Sherbrooke station on 900 (CKTS?) got so much interference from other stations 
that WOTW could run 60W without significantly affecting the RSS of the 
interfering 10% skywaves. There is some rule that says that when a 10% skywave 
drops below a certain fraction of the stronger skywaves, it is omitted from the 
calculations. After all, when you take the squares of numbers, the ratio of the 
smallest to the biggest squares is larger (sometimes A LOT larger) than the 
ratio of the unsquared quantities. I had always assumed that when a Class D AM 
seeks nighttime authority, it had to limit its power to keep its signal out of 
the calculations of interference received by existing fulltime stations. When 
Scott Fybush wrote in the latest NERW that WOTW's night power 6W, I assumed 
that the 60W I saw elsewhere was a misprint.
--
dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205
eFax 707-215-6367
> I read somewhere that 900-Nashua has a nighttime authority of 72 watts
> 
> Paul Hopfgarten
> East Derry NH 03041
> paul@03038.com 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of
> > Laurence Glavin
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:16 PM
> > To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: Fwd: WBPS cranks up the volume
> > 
> > 
> >  When WOTW is at its FULL 910 watts, WBPS is smothered.
> > BTW, WOTW apparently has an authorization to operate pre-sunrise and at
> > night with considerably more power than the nine watts to which
> > Scott referred in the most recent NERW.
> > During that period of a few hours a few days ago when WOTW was
> > off-the-air, WBPS was hardly audible and registered not much more than 
> > WCBS-AM 880 on my radio that displays relative signal strength.
> > I'll check it out in the next few days on the radio I use (aGE

> > portable that doesn't appear to be a Superradio)to listen to LTAR.--
> > 
> > --------- Forwarded Message ---------
> > 
> > DATE: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:44:56
> > From: dan.strassberg@att.net
> > To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > 
> > 
> > Mr Glavin: How about a reception report from Methuen?
> > 
> > BTW, when the network feed gets screwed up, WBPS still broadcasts 
> > dead air--
> > sometimes for hours at a stretch. Although the audio quality is 
> > unexceptional, 
> > I have to give WBPS this: with no modulation, there is no audible 
> > hum. How many 
> > other AMs around here can make that claim?
> > --
> > dan.strassberg@att.net
> > 617-558-4205
> > eFax 707-215-6367
> > 
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