Fwd: Re: Can WBOT improve coverage if WINQ moves?

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

>>At 12:23 PM 5/14/2003, Sean Smyth wrote:
>> >There is an interesting discussion going on about this at the 
>> Radio-Info.com
>> >Boston board over the past few days. Peter George checked in to say that a
>> >move would be impossible due to prohibited overlap with WOKQ, while other
>> >folk are saying that the former WCAV could probably move 9km north (since
>> >this is what WINQ is applying for in its move). Still others are saying 
>> that
>> >overlap rules have been relaxed, and if WBOT pushed the envelope it could
>> >get a new stick pretty close to downtown.
>> >
>> >So my questions are:
>> >1. Who's right?
>> >2. Even if WBOT couldn't move north, could it apply for a co-channel 
>> booster
>> >on 97.7 in Boston (fed off a small stick in, say, maybe Roxbury or
>> >Dorchester) to improve its signal in the inner-city?
>>
>>It could've if the move had happened before this March, but the FCC is not
>>going to have another new translator application window for the commercial
>>band for at least five years...probably more like 10 years.
>>
>>More likely what WBOT would be able to do is file for height or power
>>increase and expand their range, but even that might trigger the
>>commercial-allocation auction rule and that could be baaaaad news for WBOT.
>>
>>
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>>Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
>>FriedBagels Consulting          AOL-IM: readaaron
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>Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
>FriedBagels Consulting          AOL-IM: readaaron
>http://www.friedbagels.com      Boston, MA
>"I'm just got a highly dense molecular constitution, that's all."