Radio in the tunnel

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 12 Sep 2006 Aaron Read wrote:

> Short answer: yes, they do.
> 
> Long answer: there was an article in the Globe, I think, about 
> this...the top 20 stations in the market were chosen and repeated
> (probably on a radiating-cable AM/FM system from LPB) in the Big Dig
> tunnels.  The system doesn't work throughout ALL the tunnels...there's
> a few weaker areas; I suspect that part of the tunnel infrastructure
> only has one radiating cable (probably Andrew NF2D or a similar cable)
> for both tunnels, and Part 15 will only do so much.

Air America is in the top 20?
 
> Anyways, the article was about the minor bit of controversy caused
> because someone decided to bump one station in favor of putting WFNX
> on the system, which wasn't in the Top 20 of the ratings (presumably
> the Arbitron 12+ rankings).   

I thought only AM stations couldn't penetrate tunnels.  I don't 
usually find FM stations fading in tunnels.

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