WCAP's signal

[Dan.Strassberg]

What used to be WTRY has been WOFX (Fox Sports) for quite a few years
now. Maybe as many as five years.

The V-Soft Web site lists WCAP's signal strength in Brookline's 02446
Zip code as 1.41 mV/m at night and 0.55 mV/m by day. I believe that
Brookline's population is in the neighborhood of 29,000, right? IIRC,
since the population exceeds 25,000, the FCC would claim that WCAP is
not listenable in Brookline, because, to be listenable in a community
whose population is 25,000 or more, an AM station must deliver 5.0
mV/m or more to the community. Nevertheless, the kind of reception you
report is consistent with the signal strengths that V-Soft reports for
WCAP in Brookline. Neither 1.41 mV/m nor 0.55 mV/m is a very strong
signal. In addition, as is confirmed by your report, 1.41 mV/m is far
below WCAP's NIF value, which surely exceeds 20 mV/m and might exceed
40.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:21 AM
Subject: WCAP's signal


>A few years ago, I couldn't get WCAP in Brookline, day or night.  Not
> even in my car.  I suspect the new owners may have cleaned up the
> transmission a bit because now I can get the day signal in my car
> quite well.  It fades a bit here and there, and it's sometimes
> subject to interference when driving along the trolly tracks, if
> there's a train there.  But it's a very useable signal.
>
> I drove out to Sudbury today along Route 20 and found the daytime
> signal there pretty good, but occasionally spotty.  The night signal
> in Sudbury is readable, but it's got some major skywave
> interference,
> I assume from WTRY.  In Brookline, it's much better, though perhaps
> a
> bit weaker than the daytime signal.
>
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