91.3 pirate in Quincy?

[Roger Kolakowski]

Maybe the FCC should have stayed at the top of the Customs House in Boston?

Roger
WA1KAT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Jeff Lehmann"
<jjlehmann@comcast.net>; "'Garrett Wollman'" <wollman@bimajority.org>;
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
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Clark" <glen@clarkcom.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: 91.3 pirate in Quincy?


> Brings to mind another pressing question: As global warming increases
> the mean sea level, do all of the FCC's records (FM and TV at
> least--and there surely must be many, many other types) need to be
> continuously updated for the change in HAMSL (height above mean sea
> level)? One would think an algorithm could be applied that would make
> the correction automatically. This would be especially helpful when
> the FCC's offices themselves slip below the waves;>( (OK, I guess it
> would be more correct to say "as the waves rise up to envelop the
> FCC's offices"). A little gallows humor there.
>
> Also, I believe the FCC needs to think about grandfathering AM
> overlaps that suddenly appear because of new salt-water paths that
> result from rising sea levels. Oh, the humanity!
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> eFax 1-707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "Jeff Lehmann" <jjlehmann@comcast.net>; "'Garrett Wollman'"
> <wollman@bimajority.org>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 6:13 AM
> Subject: Re: 91.3 pirate in Quincy?
>
>
> > And as the tree grows, I assume, so does the HAAT. A previously
> > undiscovered method of having the coverage grow to match urban
> > sprawl;>) The perfect marriage of new and old technologies;>) (Slaps
> > forehead in one of those "I could have had a V8" moments.)
> >
> > -----
> > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> > eFax 1-707-215-6367
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jeff Lehmann" <jjlehmann@comcast.net>
> > To: "'Garrett Wollman'" <wollman@bimajority.org>;
> > <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:21 AM
> > Subject: RE: 91.3 pirate in Quincy?
> >
> >
> >>> I was not far from the 1300 transmitter site today and heard what
> >>> I believed to be an overmodulated 91.3 pirate very near that
> >>> location
> >>> (State & Palmer, off Sea St.).  Does anyone know anything about
> >>> it?
> >>>
> >>> I also noticed, last week when I was up on the hill in Haverhill,
> >>> that
> >>> 90.9 was not audible.  This could easily be a mixing product in my
> >>> car
> >>> radio (92.5 - 1.49 ~= 91.0), but in the past there was an issue
> >>> with
> >>> 1490's RF leaking into the 92.5 composite feed to the transmitter.
> >>> (I
> >>> also finally found the perfect angle fromf which to take a decent
> >>> picture of those towers, but did not have my camera with me.)
> >>
> >> There's been a very strong 91.3 pirate on West Selden St. in
> >> Dorchester for
> >> a year or two. Perhaps this is the one you were hearing? They have
> >> one of
> >> the more interested antenna setups I've seen, it's quite high up a
> >> tree!
> >>
> >> http://belmizikfm.com/
> >>
> >> Jeff Lehmann
> >> Hanson, MA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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