AM's covering metro-Boston at night (was: Felger leaving ESPN Boston)

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

One of the reasons WPRX 1120 is so strong in your area sometimes Mark, I
think is they "forget" to switch power and pattern sometimes.

Paul Walker
www.realradiousa.com




On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:53 AM, <markwa1ion@aol.com> wrote:

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> 1120 Concord wasn't mentioned.  It's the Spanish-language station in CT
> that gives them the occasional fits, not KMOX St. Louis.  Anyway, even here
> at night, about 8 miles east-northeast of them, they're so much weaker than
> the NY fire-breather on 1130 that it's not funny.
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> Mark Connelly - Billerica, MA
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> Every Boston-area AM, INCLUDING WBZ, has signal limitations SOMEWHERE
> in the market! ('BZs are on the far South Shore and Cape Cod.) 890's
> limitations are in the areas Mark mentioned, and as a relatively new
> signal (went on the air less than 20 years ago, I believe), 890 has
> deficiencies that are more pronounced than those of the 60- and 70+
> year-old signals. Nevertheless, when you consider Boston-area AM
> signals that are inferior to 1030, 590, 680, and 850, I would put 1510
> next, 1200 (when it's finally running at full power from Newton) after
> that, and 1150, 890 and 1060 (a tie; 1060 has better daytime coverage;
> 890 is better at night) next in the order in which I listed them. The
> next tier includes 1260, 1330 from Newton, and 1600 when they finally
> fix whatever it is that's currently keeping it at low power. Of the
> stations that are really daytimers, 950 has by far the best signal.
> 1430, even though it is technically a Class B, has to be ranked with
> the daytimers due to its unfavorable night pattern and very high NIF.
>
> Oh, and speaking of WBZ, I wonder whether it might be a victim of
> copper theft from its ground system within the past month or so. All
> of a sudden I am getting a lot of groundwave/skywave phasing in
> Arlington--something I never heard before in Arlington; I did hear it
> while driving in Sudbury at night many years ago. Given the proximity
> of the transmitter site to salt water, the effects might be less
> noticeable at WBZ than at most other stations, but I have to wonder if
> something might have happened that nobody at the station is aware of.
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> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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