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

[Dan.Strassberg@att.net]

If I'm not mistaken, WBOT is at the max for a Class A: 6 kW at 100m AAT. Any 
increase from its present facilities at its present location would involve a 
change in station class. I'm sure there's a subclass of B that would allow a 
slight power increase, which would certainly be less expensive than another Tx 
move.

I don't know how much space, if any, is available on the 800+-foot tower in 
Quincy. If there is room there and the room is high enough on the tower, and if 
the tower stucture can stand the additional load, a move to that tower would 
appear to be the way to go, but a slight increase at the present location would 
be cheaper and would also be effective. Also, since I think WBOT owns its 
current site, staying put would not involve paying rent month after month for a 
space on somebody else's tower.

Then if Mega were to go belly up (definitely still a possibility) and offer 890 
for sale and Radio One could convince ABC to buy 890, move Radio Disney there, 
and sell 1260 (to Radio One), WILD and WBOT could wind up with pretty decent 
facilities. 1260, in particular, has a DYNAMITE signal in Dorchester and 
Roxbury.
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> 
> >>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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