Is WSRO-AM 650 Testing Its Modest Power Increase?

Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 16:05:49 EDT 2014


Part 15 is 100 MILLIWATTS.. 1/10th of 1 watt.

Paul


On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Don <Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com> wrote:

> When a station gets down to less than 100watts.....doesn't that become a
> Part 15 issue?
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "daniel strassberg" <
> dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "Rob Landry" <011010001@interpring.com>; "Laurence Glavin" <
> lglavin@mail.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: Is WSRO-AM 650 Testing Its Modest Power Increase?
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> But WSRO either has a CP for night power higher than 100W or has applied
> for night power higher than 100W. Can somebody say which it is (CP or app)?
> I don't remember seeing 187W but I think I saw 162W.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg
> e-fax 707-215-6367
>  ----- Original Message -----  From: Rob Landry
>  To: Laurence Glavin
>  Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
>  Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 6:09 PM
>  Subject: Re: Is WSRO-AM 650 Testing Its Modest Power Increase?
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>  On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Laurence Glavin wrote:
>
>  > I was doing a little late-night AM dial twisting yesterday (Wednesday,
>  > 06/11) and noticed that I could hear WSRO-AM 650 transmitting from
>  > Framingham.  They've been running 100 watts nights with a directional
>  > pattern favoring the 45-degree radial where I reside 40 or so miles
>  > away.  They received a CP to boost that to 187 watts; no big deal, but
>  > if they're running that now, at least on the cusp of the solstice so
>  > there are fewer hours between sunset and midnight, it's doing a fine job
>  > of covering WSM-AM in Nashville,.
>
>  They're only running 100 watts at night. On occasion, I've heard them at
>  night on I-95 at the Mass/NH line. The signal's not really listenable, but
>  it's there.
>
>  In the daytime, however, they're quite listenable in Portsmouth.
>
>
>  Rob
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