Soxless Boss

[Doug Drown]

I didn't realize WBZ was directional west; I had thought it was
non-directional.  The station's signal is amazing.  I've picked it up during
daylight hours all the way from Sackville, New Brunswick to Port Jervis.

-Doug



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "R Trovato" <xtrovato@yahoo.com>; "Boston Radio Interest"
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Soxless Boss


> Cape Cod too. WRKO is almost local there because so much of the path from
> Burlington is over salt water; WEEI is barely audible on the Cape at
night.
> In AM, transmitter location, directional pattern and frequency are VERY
> important. WRKO has a substantial edge on all counts. When Hildreth picked
> the Burlington site for WLAW--presumably before World War II--he picked
the
> best available site in the area for a full-time AM, especially given the
> fact that he was siting a station in Lawrence that was really designed to
> serve Boston. WBZ has a better site but that site works so well because
> WBZ is the only Boston AM that's directional to the west. The WROL site,
> which used to be WHDH's 5 kW site, is great too because the signal reaches
> so much of the market via salt water. Putting an ND station there is not
so
> bizarre (when it was 5 kW, WHDH was ND days), but putting a station that
was
> directional to the east (as WHDH was at night) in a site that is (north)
> east of the COL, was definitely an example of brilliant out-of-the-box
> thinking decades before the term out-of-the-box thinking was coined. I
> rather doubt that the Saugus site would have worked for the larger
> three-tower array that WHDH built when it increased to 50 kW, but
> conventional thinking took over and WHDH moved to Needham. I suspect that
a
> key reason was that, had the 50 kW WHDH remained in Saugus, the big power
> increase would not have bought any improvement in coverage to the west.
The
> station had to directionalize to keep the signal to the west about where
it
> was with the lower power (at least at night). Moving westward and
> directionalizing to the east was the obvious way to take advantage of the
> higher power. But unlike the Burlington site, the Needham site gets no
> advantages from salt water.
>
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R Trovato" <xtrovato@yahoo.com>
> To: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>
> Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 3:33 AM
> Subject: Re: Soxless Boss
>
>
> >
> > > >Bostonradiowatch.com is reporting that the games will be
> > > >moving from WEEI to WRKO.  How does this make any sense?
> >
> > WRKO has a better reach into Southern NH than WEEI does.
> >
> > That to me is the only difference.
>
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