School Closings & Delays On The Radio

[Dan.Strassberg]

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
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Jim Hall <aerie.ma@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Gee...if WNLC is back on the air, WWZN is gonna have to pull in
>> that
>> pattern
>> even more tightly :)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
>> Paul B. Walker, Jr.
>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 9:40 AM
>>
>>   I posted this on my Facebook page...and YES, it is radio related!
>>
>> I am kinda embarrassed for my old high school, Bacon Academy in
>> Colchester,
>> Connecticut.
>>
>> Ok, so this is a small, minor thing and I may be the only one who
>> notices
>> or
>> cares, but geez...
>>
>> Go to the link below to read the latest newsletter from the school:
>> http://baconacademy.org/News/Newsletter/newsletter.pdf
>>
>> This is a newsletter from November 2010 not November 1998! (Hint
>> hint!!!)
>>
>> ...Go to page 9 and scroll about halfway down Page 9!!
>>
>> Any Radio Geeks/Friends/people in New England will notice an
>> absolutely
>> glaring error! If you don't.. hand back in your radio geek
>> card..NOW!
>>
>>