Boston stations on cable in St John's,Newfoundland

[Kevin Vahey]

Me bad but that certainly explains why 1210 was coming in strong. I
didn't realize that Mt Pearl was a suburb.



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On Jun 30, 2012, at 9:19 PM, Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@aol.com> wrote:

> <<
> 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:
> ..
>
>> 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
>