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A. Joseph Ross joe@attorneyross.com
Tue Jun 9 01:26:38 EDT 2009


On 8 Jun 2009 at 2:59, chris2526 wrote:

> While there is no actual AM ground system associated with the tall FM
> tower (WCOP-FM 100.7) in Lexington there is a base insulator at the
> bottom and insulators just above the midway point to break up the re
> radiation at 1150 Khz. There are also detuning units at the base and
> another at the mid point. The detuning units were tied into the ground
> system of the three 1938 self supporters when erecting the tall tower
> for WCOP-FM and what they were hoping to be WCOP-TV Channel 5 in 1948.
>  I know this for a fact as I was CE for the AM and FM twice and the AM
> several more times down the road.
 
WCOP-TV?  Now that might have been interesting.  So why didn't they 
get it?  I would think that if they'd filed early enough, they'd have 
been able to get in ahead of the freeze, as WBZ and WNAC did.

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