WSMN Gets Extension Thru March 2008

[Sean Smyth]

Laurence Glavin <lglavin@mail.com> wrote:
> I haven't been over to the WUNR/WRCA/WKOX transmitter site on Sawmill
> Brook
> Parkway since July, but I suspect there are vehicles there right now
> (even on
> a rainy day) as engineers prepare the site for its two new occupants
> (WRCA
> and WKOX) and changes for a longtime tenant, WUNR.  As far as the
> latter is
> concerned, any testing to be done will be based on the assumption
> that 
> Nashua, NH's WSMN-AM 1590  will someday resume operations with its
> licensed
> facility, 5,000 watts DA-1 from just west of NH route 3.  But right
> now,
> it's operating with a temporary STA (I know, the Dept. of Superfluous
> Redundancy
> Dept. will say STA's by definition are temporary) of about 200 watts
> until a new
> permanent array can be built.  I checked the WSMN entry at fcc.gov's
> website and
> it includes correspondence from mid-August that allows WSMN to
> maintain its current
> facilities until no later than next March.  The letter assumes that
> Absolute
> Broadcasting is making a legitimate effort to find a new site and
> build the
> requisite array.  As Bob the furniture guy says, I doubt it.  (Also,
> it appears to me that the FCC believes that WSMN is transmitting from
> W. Hollis St
> and not from the AM 900 tower on Pine Street in downtown Nashua.) If
> WSMN
> doesn't get its act together and start running 5KW DA-1 by next
> spring, could
> the gummint shut them down until they do?  Or could they apply for
> some NDA
> operation similar to what they're doing now, giving WUNR an
> opportunity to emit a
> little more juice in a northwesterly direction?

Wherever Absolute tries to build around the Nashua area, it will face
NIMBY opposition aplenty. What are the technical reasons (if any) that
the FCC wouldn't allow 1590 to diplex with 900?




       
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