RE: MOUNT WASHINGTON BURNS

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

What are the rules on backups? Do they ALSO have to meet certain COL power
levels? Since WHOM is actually licesnced to Mt. Washington, would their AUX
TX have to have a certain signal on top of the Mountain?

If so, I can't see how they could have an AUX TX anywhere else BUT on the
Mountain.

(I would guess WPKQ would at least be able to AUX in No.Conway/Conway...)

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 Dan
> Billings
> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:57 PM
> To: Sean Smyth; bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: MOUNT WASHINGTON BURNS
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>
> To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:03 PM
> Subject: Re: MOUNT WASHINGTON BURNS
>
>
> > I wonder why stations in these situations where calamities would make
> > antenna/transmitter replacement a hardship wouldn't have primaries that
> > aren't on the same tower/building as the primary. The World Trade Center
> > towers are another parallel to this. Most stations also had
> their backups
> on
> > the top of the WTCs. Obviously, everything was wiped out with the
> disaster.
> > Out of the TV stations, only WCBS had a backup elsewhere.
>
> Two thoughts:
>
> 1.  Your point is a good one in this situation because a long
> outage on the
> top of the mountain was more likely to happen than what happened
> to the WTC.
>
> 2.  But a secondary site off the Mountain would only provide a small
> fraction of the coverage area of the primary antenna.  There
> would be value
> to this but how much?
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>