School Closings & Delays On The Radio

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Colchester is in extreme Northwestern New London County right near the New
London/Middlesex/Hartford/Tolland County line.

As i recall, the site was on Cross Road in Waterford, not too far from The
Crystal Mall and what is now the Target store, which would put the array
west and slightly south of New London.

Paul B. Walker, Jr.
www.onairdj.com
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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>wrote:

> I suspect that, when it ran its 10-kW D pattern and after the daytime
> skywave from WWKB and WTOP quieted down, WNLC put a listenable signal
> into Colchester--IF Colchester is where I think it is. (Isn't it
> southeast of Hartford?) WNLC's three-tower day pattern was kind of a
> squished, slightly asymmetrical cardioid aimed northeast and spreading
> out broadly to the northwest and southeast. The site must have been a
> bit northwest of New London. Believe it or not, the day pattern was
> aimed TOWARD WMEX, a mere 77 miles away! The 5-kW night pattern was a
> six-tower teardrop aimed southeast with radiation deeply suppressed
> over close to 270 degrees. I remember hearing WNLC rather clearly on
> I-91 near Hartford during the daytime. I also picked up the skywave in
> the late afternoon once near Binghamton NY.
>
>
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> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <
> walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com>
> To: "Jim Hall" <aerie.ma@comcast.net>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: School Closings & Delays On The Radio
>
>
>
> And even when WNLC-AM was on the air, you probably couldn't hear it
>> in
>> Colchester all the well at all during the day and certainly not at
>> night.
>>
>> I wonder how many people in Colchester tried tuning to WNLC-AM
>> before the
>> sun would rise in the winter.
>>
>> Now I know why when I started high school in Colchester, in 1999
>> moving from
>> Cromwell, that I couldn't heard WNLC-AM!!
>>
>> Paul Walker
>> www.onairdj.com
>> www.facebook.com/onairdj
>>
>>