Re: Downtown FM signals

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 11:03 AM 6/26/2003, Aaron Read wrote:
>At 12:28 AM 6/26/2003, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>>I've been noticing lately that, after some months trouble-free, it's 
>>suddenly become difficult to
>>get a good signal on WCRB from my downtown office.  At the same time, the 
>>signal of
>>WGBH seems much improved.
>>
>>--
>>A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                           617.367.0468
>>  15 Court Square, Suite 210                 lawyer@attorneyross.com
>>Boston, MA 02108-2503                            http://www.attorneyross.com
>
>
>Could be the heat...it's no doubt causing significant atmospheric "layers" 
>that might wreak some miniature havoc with various signals.  I'm going to 
>an SBE Lunch today...I'll ask around a little and see if anyone's heard 
>anything...

As a followup - yesterday (Thursday) the WGBH transmitter was repeatedly 
off the air for several minutes at a stretch.  After one such outage the DJ 
mentioned that they were having power problems at the transmitter - 
probably brownouts or something due to drain on the grid thanks to the heat.



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