Boston stations on cable in St John's,Newfoundland

[Mark Connelly]

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From: Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Re: Boston stations on cable in St John's,Newfoundland
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:49:49 -0400

On 6/29/2012 10:29 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
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> Radio wise - 2 Boston signals can be faintly heard in the afternoon -
> 850 and 1510 and at night they are like locals.
>
> 680 is there but fighting another signal - strongest AM signals
> overall are 850, 880, 1210 and 1510. 660 is fighting with a local
> CBC on 640.
>
> Oddly WBAL is getting wiped out by a sports station in either Ireland
> or the UK ( Talk Sport )

That's the 1089 kHz synchro network all across the UK. There's no 
medium-wave left in the Irish Republic.
>>

Here is a recording of the 1089 kHz TalkSport UK station that I made at 
the salt-marsh in Rowley, MA (Stackyard Road site) in 2004:
http://home.comcast.net/~markwa1ion/dx_audio/talksport_uk_1089.mp3

I think that Ireland still has low-power stations on 549, 846, 981, and 
1593 kHz.  You need very good propagation at a coastal receiving site 
to hear any of those.  Much more powerful stations from Algeria 
typically "own" 549 and 981 (sometimes knocking out 550 WDEV and 980 
WCAP out at Granite Pier in Rockport).

On Cape Cod when I null out WRKO, the Puerto Rican WAPA is #2 on 680, 
WPTF-NC #3, CFTR-ON #4, Cuba #5.  Maybe that helps.

The WRKO and WBZ patterns only put about 5 to 10 kW ERP that way as 
contrasted with 50+ for 850 and 1510 (which I had also noted at good 
strength in western Ireland just before local dawn on that end).

1210 is a local up there in NL: VOAR Mt. Pearl (adjacent to St. John's) 
so I doubt you'll hear Philly.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA