WMEX 50 KW DA days

[Doug Drown]

I grew up in the Gardner-Fitchburg and was always frustrated that we never
could get WMEX.  I loved the station.  I was aghast when, at the age of 14
or so, I went on my first trip up through coastal and central Maine and
found we could pick up the signal during virtually the entire journey.  I
was REALLY envious.
(Maybe, subconsciously, that was why I moved to Maine twelve years later.)

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Dale H. Cook" <radiotest@cox.net>;
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: WMEX 50 KW DA days


>
> >Dale wrote--
> >At the old Quincy site WMEX was 50 kW days and 5 kW nights. Some years
ago
> >I discussed the Quincy array with John H. Garabedian (now host of the sat
> >program Open House Party), who was, from 1969 to 1971 IIRC, afternoon
> >drive jock, Program Director and Chief Engineer at WMEX.
>
> My recollection of the WMEX signal from when I was growing up here was
that
> at night you could get it in Northern Maine and in Gander Newfoundland,
but
> you couldn't get it in much of Boston.  The standing joke was that the
> station was #1 in 18-24 year old fish and also very big with 15-54 year
old
> moose...
>
>