Re: 94.9

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Lawrence" <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>
To: "Cooper Fox" <fox893@yahoo.com>; <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: 94.9


> I wasn't sure of this earlier, but it appears WBLM has
> maintained their emergency back up transmitter site on
> Blakstrap Hill in Falmouth. This was the sight WBLM
> used during their recovery of "Ice Storm '98". A
> friend of mine heading into work last night drove the
> 94.9 signal from the Gray-New Gloucester area where
> the signal was barely in stereo and when he reached
> the Falmouth stretch of I-95, the signal was
> full-quiet. I would guess they are putting out 250
> watts max. The signal starts to dwindle around the
> Saco/Biddeford area to the south.

That makes sense and would also explain the simulcast on 93.9.  The two
signals would cover most of southwestern Maine well, with the exception of
most of York County.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine