WLLH off air

[Dan Strassberg]

In Lowell, the signal from the Lawrence transmitter can't be as good as the
signal from the Lowell transmitter would be if it were operating. I imagine
that there is more interference (and maybe some spots in Lowll where the
Lawrence signal fades out). If you are between Lowell and Lawrence or in
an area where the two transmitters are roughly equidistant and both are
operating, you can hear the two signals duking it out. The signal strength
slowly rises and falls at a rate that depends on the frequency difference.
When the two signals roughly cancel each other out, there is also quite
noticeable audio distortion. At night, under normal DX conditions, you'd
know for sure that the signal was coming from several miles farther away
than usual because of the skywave interference from the 200 or so other
graveyarders on 1400. BTW, I'm not even positive that the Lawrence
transmitter runs a full kilowatt, whereas the Lowell transmitter does. The
Lowell transmitter is no longer a rooftop installation. It now has a
conventional antenna. And in researching this post, I discovered that the
Lawrence transmitter must have been deleted (accridentally, I presume) from
the FCC's AM database. What I believe to be the most recent release of Bob
Carpenter's AMSTNS program, which uses the FCC database, contains no record
for WLLH's Lawrence transmitter.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: A. Joseph Ross <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
To: <billo@shoreham.net>
Cc: Boston radio e-mail list <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: WLLH off air


> On 26 Nov 2004 at 15:20, Bill O'Neill wrote:
>
> > I was in Lawrence today and could tell it was the Lawrence station I
could
> > hear.  I was surprised that installation even worked.  I thought LLH was
> > being sold or changing formats or something?
>
> How can people tell that?
>
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