WEEI-FM 93.7

[Dan.Strassberg]

>From a technical standpoint, what Entercom did with 107.3 is an
out-and-out tragedy. I had a dental appointment Friday. The dental
office is in a large office building at 405 Cochituate Rd near Speen
St on the Framingham-Natick line. If you are familar with the area,
it's the Fidelity building. The mutual fund outfit has a large office
on the ground floor and its name is plastered all over the front of
the building, which faces Cochituate Rd. AFAIK. the 107.3 stick is on
the Channel 27 tower on Stiles Hill (which I believe is in Hudson, but
I could be wrong). I arrived early and spent some time in the parking
lot in front of the building tuning in FM signals. WAAF was total
crap--all multipath. The station is licensed to Southborough, has its
transmitter in MetroWest, and it was unlistenable at a point right at
the very heart of MetroWest. Also, I'm pretty sure that my QTH was
east of the WAAF Tx, IOW, in the same direction as Boston, which
is the city that WAAF is now supposedly designed to reach.
Meanwhile, the stations at WAAF's old site on Asnebumskit Hill
in Paxton (90.5 and 96.1--there may be others, but I don't know the
frequencies) were booming in. 90.5 (WICN) does not have much
power, but it came in clearly on my car radio all the way to
128, where first-adjacent WZBC began to give it some trouble.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@mail.com>
To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Boston Radio Interest"
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: WEEI-FM 93.7


> Agreed about the WRKO and WEEI signals, and that the only advantage
> WEEI (AM) has is the slightly-better-to
> Metro-West coverage (at night). Even then there could still be
> mixing with other 850s. I will say that yesterday when I was on Cape
> Cod (W. Yarmouth/Hyannis area)
> WRKO had a little power line interference at times but was fairly
> solid. (Also by the way, as I drove to Cape
> Cod on Sat. I kept checking 93.7. It came in fairly well down Rt 3,
> though a bit of drift around Plymouth, and
> could reach Cape Cod slightly but of course WEEI's sister stations
> at 96.3 for Cape/Islands and 103.7
> in R.I. can help on the Cape.)