[B R-I] Re: W279BQ-103.7 On-Air (Where?); New Pirate On 94.9?

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Ive found googlemaps to be anywhere between 500 to 1000 feet off when using
exact co-ordinates.

I once maped K04HL in Ord, NE when I lived there and google maps putn it 500
feet off from where I knew it to be.

Why would Salem "losing" WESX have anythijng to do with where the translator
licenses itself?

Paul Walker

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Kaimbridge M. GoldChild <
Kaimbridge@gmail.com> wrote:

> > They may be licensed to Salem--indeed at 5 pm I heard an ID that
> > said "WSMA Scituate 90.5 FM, simulcast on 103.7 W279BQ Salem" (or
> > words to that effect)
> >
> > Drove around Beverly, also 128 from Beverly to Lynnfield (where
> > I lose them). Maybe based on Highland Ave Salem and best heard
> > in Bev., Salem, Danvers, Swampscott, Peabody, Lynn?
>
> In terms of COL, the license and CP both identify Gloucester as the
> "principal community to be served" (which appears far fetched for either
> case, though the original 'Farms location would have been fine).
> They were granted a license on 15 September 2009,
>
>     http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1332585.pdf
>
> which, after adjusting the coordinates from NAD-27 to NAD-83 (why they
> haven't just converted to the modern '83 datum——which GPS, Google Maps and
> just about everyone else uses——is beyond logic),
>
>
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/asrn-within-radius?dlat=42&mlat=33&slat=26.00&ns=N&dlon=70&mlon=53&slon=13.00&ew=W&nad=27
>
> locates the transmitter/antenna in the middle of the Cummings Center
> parking lot on Rt.62 (Elliott St.) in Beverly:
>
>     http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=42.5572531&lon=-70.8863962&z=17&m=h
>
> No sign of anything there, now!
> The subsequent construction permit was granted on 28 April 2010,
>
>     http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1351441.pdf
>
> with the NAD-27->83 adjusted coordinates,
>
>
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/asrn-within-radius?dlat=42&mlat=30&slat=06.00&ns=N&dlon=70&mlon=55&slon=31.00&ew=W&nad=27
>
> identifying the rooftop of a building just south of the Hawthorne Square
> Mall on Rt.107 (Highland Ave, between Traders Way and Greenledge St) as the
> transmitting site:
>
>     http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=42.5017503&lon=-70.9247303&z=18&m=h
>
> So it would certainly seem reasonable to change the COL to
> Salem (especially since they lost WESX!).
>
>
>     ~Kaimbridge~
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