Re: Boston Globe Online / Sports / WWZN cuts staff and programming

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 04:31 PM 7/21/2003, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>I m not sure the old WMEX from Quincy could meet the COL requirement at 
>night as their signal was non existant in parts of Hyde Park and West 
>Roxbury which of course are part of Boston.
>
>
>On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 4:22PM -0500, dan.strassberg@att.net wrote:
>>Non-critical daytime hours are almost a non-issue. WWZN's signal out the back
>>of the current array is almost equal to 50 kW from a minimum-height 
>>(about 55-
>>degree) stick. They just need to get close enough to the most distant part of
>>Boston to put 5 mV/m over the whole city. BUT, critical hours day IS a 
>>problem
>>and nighttime gets REALLY complicated.
>>
>>During critical hours, the signal toward WLAC can't exceed the equivalent of
>>roughly 1 kW ND. On 1510, you won't find a location, including N Quincy, from
>>which 1 kW ND delivers 5 mV/m to the whole City of Boston. And the 
>>requirement
>>for COL coverage during CH is the same as during midday--at least 5 mV/m over
>>the entire land area of the COL.
>(snip)



I'm sure there's a blindingly obvious answer for this...but how did 1510 
meet the COL requirements before moving to Waltham?



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