Endicott College Will Be A Hard Hat Area

[Dan Strassberg]

Allegedly, the three towers are there already and have been for several
years. No tower construction is planned. Probably just new transmission
lines and new fences further from the towers to comply with safety
regulations on human exposure to RF energy. Maybe there will be a new ground
system after the existing radials vaporize or melt ;>) The application says
that the ground radials are on top of bear solid rock--probably the poorest
conductivity of any "soil" beneath an AM ground system anywhere--although
maybe some rooftop systems are as bad. OTOH, the rooftop systems (except for
KTNQ/KTLK--which can be argued don't really have a rooftop ground system)
are all for low-power stations. Since Keating Willcox, who owns WNSH, reads
this list, we may get an answer soon about the fences and the diameter of
the ground radials. I believe that #14 AWG copper wire is the industry
standard.

Dan Strassberg, Contributing Editor
EDN Magazine | Reed Electronics Group | www.edn.com
Fax 707-215-6367 | StrassbergEDN@att.net
*** CONTACT ME BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO SEND ATTACHMENTS LARGER THAN 1 Mbyte ***

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:37 PM
Subject: Endicott College Will Be A Hard Hat Area


> Just noting that among the FCC actions earlier this week was the
> approval of WNSH's plan to boost its daytime power to 50,000
> watts DA-D while deleting WPEP-AM Taunton from the face of the Earth.
> WNSH operates from the campus of Endicott Jr College in Beverly,
> and sometime soon I imagine construction and rigging equipment will
> be appearing to do the work.  The school will be closed I assume for
> the summer, unless it offers summer school courses...thus the
> coming months would be the ideal time for this project.  The current
> ND "tower" is barely visible from an adjacent parking lot...will three
> towers make a stronger impression?
> --
> _______________________________________________
> NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites
at once.
> http://datingsearch.lycos.com
>
>