WLLH Lowell tx

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Watson" <markwats@comcast.net>
>To: bri@bostonradio.org, "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
>Subject: Re: WLLH Lowell tx
>Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:24:40 -0400
> 
> I just checked, and the WLLH Lowell transmitter is back on the air 
> after 3 weeks off. IIRC, Gary Francis posted here recently that he 
> had called someone at Mega in Boston to tell them about the Lowell 
> transmitter being off, don't know if that person got the word to 
> engineering. Guess they don't take transmitter readings anymore.
> 
> Mark Watson

Twice I drove by the Lowell tower to assure myself that it was
off;  this entailed having the Lawrence operation on for a while,
and I must say that the sound is rich and clear.  Hispanic recordings
seem to be less processed that Anglo pop fare;  there are acoustical
instruments like trumpets (LOTS of trumpets), trombones and 
acoustcal guitars.  This is weird:  for all the fame of pop divas,
that is FEMALE voices, most vocals seem to be performed by one-
or-more males, some in the high tessitura of their range. Anyway,
I'm now of the opinion that the Lawrence transmitter in the Cregg
Building must be a fairly good piece of late-model equipment.
I'm sure that in the past it may have been a Heathkit(tm) unit
that went down a lot, but it's possible that the new owners 
figured that Lawrence was worth the investment in good-sounding
equipment, or in the final years of the Anglo Wireless-Talking
Machine era, the previous owner spent a buck or two.
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