Longstandiong WUNR Towers Down (No Scott Photos?)

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan.Strassberg" 
>To: "Laurence Glavin" , boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
>Subject: Re: Longstandiong WUNR Towers Down (No Scott Photos?)
>Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:03:55 -0500


>Laurence: As I have told you in at least three e-mails over the past
>year or so, WUNR's signal to the north with the new 20 kW pattern will
>be LESS than it was with the old 5-kW pattern. This signal reduction
>is required by the ratchet rule to protect 1590 in Nashua,
>notwithstanding that 1590 in Nashua now almost doesn't exist. It's
>operating ND at low power from the site of co-owned 900. If the FCC
>doesn't forget, at some point, I believe 1590 will either have to find
>a way of getting a license (new CoL maybe) or go dark. (I don't know,
>but I suspect that the STA operation does not meet CoL-coverage
>requirements of Nashua even by day. 

With regard to WUNR, I'm aware of the limitations to the north-northwest,
at least in theory, and I'd expect signal diminution heading up route 3;
but WUNR must be getting SOME bang for the buck, and thus there may be a
little boost east of due north, and therefore a person heading north 
on route 93 after the switchover  should expect a little better signal,
with the bulk of signal improvement hitting Boston itself, Somerville, 
Medford, Everett, etc.  As for WSMN in its present configuration, I
was in Nashua recently and it covers the City pretty well during the day;
how it does just after sunrise and just before sunset, the nemesis of 
stations in the 15's, I can't tell.

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