The future of AM radio

[Kevin Vahey]

It appears the airport was built in 1941 and taken over by the
government the following year.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/r1/npl_pad.nsf/f52fa5c31fa8f5c885256adc0050b631/C9CB3FC4B770296D8525691F0063F6CD?OpenDocument

In 1942, the military began using a public airfield at the site that
had been built the previous year. In 1952, the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts transferred 396 acres and leased 641 acres of the land
to the Air Force. The Commonwealth retained the remaining 83 acres for
its own use. Military flight operations ceased in 1973 and in August
1974, the airfield reverted to state control and was renamed L.G.
Hanscom Field.



On 2/2/08, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:
 I don't know whether Hanscom Field existed when WLAW was
> planned and built, but if the airfield existed or was itself in the
> planning stages, both sets of engineers realized that WLAW could never
> have towers anywhere near 1/2 wavelength.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Waters" <martinjwaters@yahoo.com>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; <wollman@bimajority.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: The future of AM radio
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> >
> > --- Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
> >
> >    The WEEI towers are very tall -- around 5/8th
> > wave, IIRC. As a result, I've always wondered whether
> > WHDH/Boston Herald-Traveler had a plan to try to get
> > the station designated as a I-B and built the antenna
> > to those specs.
> >
>
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