RE: Re: College engineering (was WWZN)

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

> A good example of an "early" directional FM was WHAV-FM 92.5
> (now WXRV) in Haverhill.
> When they first boosted their power from 20K to 50K
> with a circularly-polarized antenna, they had to put in
> the darndest directional antenna I ever saw!  I guess it was designed
> to protect the 92.5 on West Peak, CT.  Then when WCCM's
> FM at 93.7 boosted its signal without such protection, WHAV-FM,
> which was farther away, applied for and got a non-DA
> authorization.
>
> Laurence Glavin
> Methuen, MA

WJUL (91.5 Lowell) was one of the first FM directionals (as station folklore had
it).  Phelps Dodge, c. 1970 (known as WLTI), when it was 1.7 ERP at a modest 39'
HAAT to protect WPAA (91.7 Andover) which was 10 watts at that time.  Now, WJUL
has a new directional signal from its relatively new xmtr/twr atop the Fox Hall
tower across the river on N. Campus of UMass.

Bill O'Neill