So Near And Yet So Far

[Dan.Strassberg]

If there was no damage (for example: tower down, part of a tower down,
ATU damaged or destroyed) I don't think there is any requirement to
perform proofs of performance before returning to the air after an
outage of a few days or even a few months. Some directional stations
have been known to do proofs before returning to the air after an
extended dark period, however. In 1987, what today is WWZN (I can't
remember which of its many calls the station had 21+ years ago) did
proofs before coming back on after months of darkness, but I thought
the proofs were necessary in that case because the station returned
after being bought out of its previous owner's bankruptcy and, no
doubt, the purchase agreement included a clause stating that the terms
of sale could be renegotiated if the station was not operating within
its licensed parameters. That there could have been a problem was a
definite possibility because the Tx site's landlord had partially
destroyed the ground system during the installation of lighting
standards in the parking lot, which was built over a portion of the
ground system.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: So Near And Yet So Far


The folks at Costa-Eagle must be fuming.  WCCM-AM 1110 is still
off-the-air.  Their
other outlets: WNNW-AM 800 and WCEC-AM 1490 are broadcasting as
normal.  Now here's
the deal...WCCM is the only directional station out of the three, so I
wouldn't
be surprised if they have to run a few tests before they can resume
broadcasting
(that may be why WEIM-1280 in Fitchburg appears to be running at lower
power and
WFGL-AM 960 is nowhere to be found.) The transmitter with assorted
phasing equipment
has been sitting there for five days or so in the dark and cold.  So I
thought
I'd go out to the transmitter site, which is at the end of a dirt road
perpendicular
to the main drag, Pelham Road.  There was a truck blocking the street
and it
wasn't from Costa-Eagle;  it was for workers cleaning up the area.
One of
them said, yes, all the RESIDENCES in the area got their power back,
but Public
Service of NH was not yet restoring power to BUSINESSES along the
street;
oops, the ONLY business for a couple of miles IS the WCCM transmitter.
So
that station may be off at least until tomorrow.  I also noticed that
WDER-AM 1320
in Derry is still off-the-air.  Its studio and transmitter site is
near downtown though.


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