Heritage AM Station in Maine To Close Down?

[Dan.Strassberg]

A diplex with WZON 620 is the first thing that should be considered.
Unfortunately, WAEI would need to construct one new tower at the WZON site
because the orientation of the existing towers won't work for WAEI. I assume
that this option has already been considered and discarded--presumably
because there is not sufficient land at the WZON site for a new tower and
ground radials in a location that WAEI could use. Or the trouble could be
NIMBYs or zoning. A plus here is that WZON's frequency is ~2/3 of WAEI's, so
the shorter of WZON's two towers could work for WAEI. If there isn't room
for a guyed tower with anchors, a self-supporter might be made to work. And
nobody says that the ground system has to be centered around the tower base.
Stranger things than off-center ground fields have been done! A competent
consulting engineer is clearly needed.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Jibguy@aol.com>
To: <lglavin@mail.com>; <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Heritage AM Station in Maine To Close Down?


>
> In a message dated 9/12/2013 2:16:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> lglavin@mail.com writes:
>
> WAEI-AM  910 in Bangor, ME has requested approval to go silent for the
> time
> being  until
> a buyer can be found, and if not, then turn in the license. WAEI is  the
> former WABI-AM, a 5,000-watt fulltime
> facility in the second largest  market in the state that came into being
> in
> 1924.
>
>
> The tower site is the problem.  It is being re-designed or sold, and  the
> 2
> towers to be taken down. typical scenario.... "the land is worth more than
> the station".  In this case, it's quite true, as the area the towers are,
> is in one of Bangor-area's mall development areas. - I really hope this
> great  heritage station is purchased. (I'd do it if I had the time, and if
> my
> wife  would let me!)
> -----jibguy