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

[Brian Vita]

It looks like your map is centered on top of the Instant Alarm building.  It would make sense there - they already have an antenna mast for their wireless alarms and old business band radios (not sure if they're using it for either).

 
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-
> radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Kaimbridge M.
> GoldChild
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:38 AM
> To: Boston Radio Interest
> Subject: [B R-I] Re: W279BQ-103.7 On-Air (Where?); New Pirate On 94.9?
> 
>  > 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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