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[markwa1ion@aol.com]

WHEB-750 Portsmouth would have been a "killer" for coverage not only of 
the southern ME, NH, and MA seacoast down to and including Cape Ann but 
it also had a spectacularly loud signal on the South Shore and Cape 
Cod.  Signal strength measurements that I took from West Yarmouth in 
the '70s put its 1 kW ahead of 850's 50 kW and nearly in the same 
league as 680 and 1030.

But a 50 kW in Bangor ?  I'm not sure that the expense would be 
justified for the amount of people served who couldn't get WJTO-730 as 
well.  If it was Bar Harbor instead of more inland Bangor, they'd have 
a monster signal along the entire New England coast as well as parts of 
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and all the way south to Montauk Point, 
Long Island.  When St. John, New Brunswick (CHSJ) was on 700, they 
could be heard all day as far south as Chincoteague, VA !

But Bangor isn't Bar Harbor (or St. John) in terms of sea gain boost.

What could be a bit cheaper for Bob would be to scoop up West 
Yarmouth's 1240 and/or Plymouth's 1390 to provide the Cape Cod area 
with programming well-matched to its sizeable senior population (who 
used to have nostalgia music on FM but lost that).

Mark Connelly - Billerica, MA

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Betcha Hecht & Alonso will happily consider offers for their 750 CP in
Hampden, outside of Bangor (50 kW-D/10 kW-N DA-N four towers).
Although the grant date was 1/18/2005, meaning that it should have
expired two years ago, the CP has apparently been tolled, because my
source carries a notation that it won't expire until 2029!

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message -----
From: <jibguy@aol.com>
To: <aerie.ma@comcast.net>;
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: I guess holiday music works


>
> In a message dated 1/8/2010 10:38:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> aerie.ma@comcast.net writes:
>
> I am thinking that if Bob Bitner had been able to buy WHEB, he would
> have
> blanketed the coastline on 730, 740, and 750.
>
> -----------------------
> Had I been awake and aware of 750's ownership's thoughts at the
> time, I
> definitely would have. Absolutely!
> ---BB
>>