Fw: MetroWest signal strengths (from V-soft Web site)

[John Francini]

These pretty much bear out my own experience when I lived in the 
western edge of Wellesley from 1986-96, and when I go down there to 
visit relatives.  In the daytime, WRKO is OK, WEEI comes in like 
gangbusters, WBZ is also OK

At night, WRKO disappeared into the weeds (which was a pain in the 
butt when the Celtics were first on the station and they were doing 
their historic run of championship seasons in the late 80s), while 
WEEI is still quite listenable.

I looked up WEEI's day and night strength up here in Nashua on the 
V-soft site. It claims 1.67 mV/m daytime, 1.47 mV/m nighttime.  If 
they're so close, why does WEEI disappear so badly at night?

As for using nonproportional fonts, can't you tell Outlook Distress 
to use Courier New?  That's a fine non-proportional font on the 
Windows side.

John Francini



At 17:14 -0400 5/5/06, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
>To: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
>Cc: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
>Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:59 PM
>Subject: MetroWest signal strengths (from V-soft Web site)
>
>
>I originally sent this in HTML because it's a table and, with Outlook
>Express, the only way I know of to get it into a nonproportional font so the
>columns line up is to use HTML. Before I sent the message, I did view the
>content in a text editor, and I believe that it would have been readable as
>plaintext. I see, however, that, as I feared, Garrett had blocked the HTML.
>But I also see that the message is pretty readable in the proportional font.
>For those who like REAL columns, copy the message text to the clipboard
>(assuming that you are using Windows--I know that doesn't include Garrett)
>and then paste the text into Notepad or a similar text editor.
>
>- Except where labeled dBu, all figures are in mV/m.
>- The FCC considers AM signals of 5 mV/m or
>more to be city-grade.
>- A 10 mV/m AM signal is pretty strong.
>
>01701 (Framingham)    01760 (Natick)
>FM    WAAF    3.49        2.18
>                     (70 dBu)  (66.8 dBu)
>Day   WEEI   17.65       56.36
>        WRKO   10.39       11.25
>D&N   WBZ     5.84        8.18
>
>Night WEEI    2.50        6.14
>       WRKO    1.73        2.08
>       WCRN    1.97        1.51
>         WBIX    2.09       41.79
>       WAMG    2.11       58.05
>
>One obvious point is that although Famingham and Natick are adjacent to each
>other, the signal strengths, which I believe are calculated at the
>population centroid of each ZIP code, differ greatly, especially for WBIX
>and WAMG. The WAMG/WBIX (night) site is pretty much due south of downtown
>Framingham. The night patterns of WAMG and WBIX don't do much to the north
>(or south). Natick, on the other hand, is both north and substantially east
>of the site. Even though the distance from the site to Natick is greater
>than the distance from the site to Framingham, you can see the dramatic
>effect of azimuth on these narrow (in the case of WAMG) and relatively
>natrrow (WBIX) patterns.
>
>I included WBZ for comparison. It is the AM signal that IS the standard of
>comparison in this market. Note that the WBZ's signal is not overwhelming in
>Natick or Framingham.
>
>I've also included WAAF. I believe these figures are for the old Paxton
>site. I am surprised that WWWF does not deliver a 70 dBu city-grade signal
>to Natick from Paxton. It may well do so from W Boyleston.
>
>--
>Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
>eFax 707-215-6367

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John Francini <mailto:francini@mac.com>
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