WCCM

[haverhill01835@comcast.net]

If Scott needs a pic, I actually have one (somewhere) of the marsh, I mean, weeds, I mean - towers in Salem.  I also have one of the 800 towers and shack in Andover with the new HD X-mitter.  (I'm also digging up an ID or two for Mr. Fybush, but I digress)

>From my understanding - it's 1/2 hour pre sunrise and post sunset local time to protect WBT.  When I was doing mornings on WCCM, it was always odd to walk into the building at 0430 (even earlier on snow days) and hear a WBT ID coming out of the WCEC studios (whose monitors were up WAY TOO LOUD for that hour of the morning.)

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From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Don A" 
> >To: haverhill01835@comcast.net, "Joe Corcoran" , BRI 
> >Subject: Re: WCCM
> >Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:46:07 -0400
> > 1110 is a very tough catch for me in Haverhill (read: darned near 
> > impossible), and is even worse in the 'burbs of Groveland, 
> > Georgetown, etc. Even north of the border into Plaistow, 1110 is 
> > a tough catch. It can also be considered marginal at best in 
> > parts of Methuen, Lawrence and other parts of the Valley during 
> > my "airchecks" since I found out about the change. <<
> 
> >I know 1110AM comes in pretty well in Manchester (and not that 
> awful in Concord either!)
> >How does it do in Nashua?
> Is it a stable signal
> >-d
> 
> I remember when Scott Fybush was co-hosting "Let's Talk About Radio"
> one time, and he mentioned that he had never viewed the 1110 towers
> near the Salem/Pelham, NH line.  According to the FCC website, the 4 towers
> are about 58-degrees in height, translating to 133 feet if I remember correctly.
> (There's little chance he'll venture there for a Tower Calendar shoot,
> although July's picture is of a comparativly short unpainted array.)
> At some time in the distant past, vandals damaged one of more of the towers and 
> AM
> 1110 (I think it was WVNH at the time), went off-the-air for a protracted 
> period of time.  The signal is generally quite strong from sunrise to sunset
> where I live, but they seem to reduce power for a period of time in a 
> post-sunset authorization and it's hardly receivable then at all.  Evidently
> they don't have a pre-sunrise authorization due to WBT in Charlotte.
> 
> 
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