Re: Newton residents kick up fuss about 'WNUR' site expansion proposal

[Dan.Strassberg@att.net]

What the whole debate fails to deal with is that the Oak Hill location just 
isn't very good as far as soil conductivity goes. Between that problem and the 
FCC requirements for "ratcheting" down interference whenver an AM makes even a 
minor change (of course, "minor" changes, can now be quite major--as this one 
is), WRCA in particular is going to wish that it never thought of this move. 
Mainly, what WRCA will have to show for big engineering and construction bills 
is higher power bills--in perpetuity. WRCA does great from its South St site 
with its two towers top loaded to the equivalent of something like 163 degrees. 
They will be losing coverage in the northwestern suburbs that they will never 
be able to get back, and I maintain that the signal improvment in the 
Roxbury/Dorchester area won't be terribly impressive. Beasley management has a 
reputation for not being the brightest bulbs in the circuit and this adventure 
certainly lends credence to that assertion.
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> Years ago I was CE of 1510 with its notorious transmitter site in Waltham...we 
> dealt with many different types of interference (we had a database in my 5 years 
> there of over 2,000 RFI calls), the likes of which I've not seen at any prior 
> station or any since.  
> 
> While the link to this article didn't seem to work, I suspect that this is 
> similar to something which we had seen back in Waltham where we dealt with water 
> pipes picking up the signals and acting as a speaker through a heat radiator.  I 
> suspect that this is similar where the pipes are picking up the RF and they are 
> "hearing" it out of the toilet.  Poor solder joints in the plumbing can act as a 
> "detector" and pick up an AM signal, as one example of a reason.
> 
> It's a strange phenomenon, but after my time at 1510, I am not surprised by 
> ANYTHING I ever hear about with interference.
> 
> 
> John Kennedy
> Director of Engineering
> Entercom Boston, LLC
> WAAF - WEEI - WRKO - WQSX - WVEI