WBIX going Catholic

[Dan.Strassberg]

But under Langer's ownership, WBIX DID get a license for its night
operation. Turns out that a high-voltage AC power line runs north and
south less than a mile east of the east edge of the Tx site at the end
of Sewell St in Ashland. The line runs right in front of WAMGs two
patterns and WBIX's night pattern. To bring the patterns into spec,
that line had to be detuned for both 890 AND 1060--no small
engineering feat! But between Langer and Waller-Sutton, they engaged
consulting-engineering teams with the knowledge and experience to pull
it off.

And in the process of fixing WAMG, measurements were taken that
purportedly show that the soil conductivity to the east of the site is
so poor that WBIX can use its night pattern by day with 50 kW and can
send the equivalent of more than half a million watts ND to the east
without causing prohibited overlap of 25 mV/m contours with
third-adjacent WBZ. At 50 kW, WBIX's inverse-distance field at 1 km
will be 6710 mV/m. Meanwhile WBZ sends an ID field of ~4000 mV/m due
west (right toward WBIX) from its Hull site, which is only about 28
miles from WBIX's night site. (And a significant fraction of the path
is salt water!) Even so, WAMG's measurements and WBIX's proposal
apparently satisfied the FCC's engineers and must have satisfied the
technical types at CBS, because they did not raise a peep about WBIX's
proposal, for which the FCC granted a CP just weeks after it was
accepted for filing.

Actually, when Garabedian was duking it out with Wetinghouse about the
technical feasbility of a high-powered AM 1060 in MetroWest, although
Westinghouse was trying to protect WBZ's signal, the station around
which the arguments centered was KYW, because it was easier to prove
prohibited overlap with a co-channel station than with a
third-adjacent. Conveniently for Westinghouse, the company owned both
WBZ and KYW.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>
To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Scott Fybush"
<scott@fybush.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: WBIX going Catholic


> It never got a full operating license due to its' highly unstable
> directional pattern.  WBZ was always on their necks claiming
> interference.