Fwd: Re: WJIB at 101.3

[Bob Nelson]

Have heard from two people that Big City or some kind of pirate is now on
100.5 which of course is right next to a powerful station owned by CBS,
100.7 WZLX. Also supposedly there are pirates on either side of WEEI-FM
(93.5; 93.9; one on the former freq had popped up some time ago)

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@gmail.com> wrote:

> As I'd mentioned WJIB's translator is doing better here on the North Shore
> or at least the pirate doesn't seem to be interfering. Indeed I am on the
> fringe area of their signal, anyway. I am hearing from some listeners of
> WJIB on a Facebook group; people in Dorchester, Copley Sq. and Roslindale
> are getting W267CE now with no interference and one person said they could
> barely pick up the pirate right around where it was supposed to be
> broadcasting from.
> So they may have turned the power way down, or maybe that was some other
> station coming in--but he did seem to think it was Big City.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Remember, it's tropospheric ducting season. Yesterday morning something
>> was interfering with WBUR on my way up I-95 towards New Hampshire, in
>> places where I've never heard inerference before.
>>
>> This morning I'll bet there's a lot of tropo. The air was thick with smog
>> and humidity; just the kind of conditions that seem to come with tropo.
>> Low-powered signals such as translators will be the first to notice it.
>>
>> Last summer WTSN in Dover, NH added its translator on 98.1. The first
>> time I heard it, it suffered from WCTK interferenmce all the way up I-95
>> well into Maine; but the next day it was clean as the proverbial whistle
>> from the Hamtopn tolls all the way to Wells.
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, A Joseph Ross wrote:
>>
>> I listened to the WJIB translator while driving to my office yesterday
>>> and today (Tuesday) to see how it would come in.  Monday, I had a lot of
>>> interference with a competing signal around my home in Washington Square,
>>> Brookline and going up Beacon Street to about Cleveland Circle.  After
>>> Cleveland Circle, going out Beacon Street to Newton, the translator signal
>>> was pretty clean, with only a few cut-outs until I got to Newton Centre and
>>> turned onto Centre Street.  In the parking lot of my building on Centre
>>> Street, WJIB had a lot of competition from some other station.  From the
>>> sound of it, I suspected that the station interfering in Newton was not the
>>> same one that was interfering in Brookline.
>>>
>>> Tuesday, the translator signal was mostly clean in Brookline, to the
>>> extent that I think whatever station was competing with it was off the
>>> air.  In Newton Centre, I began to hear another station.  At one point, it
>>> cut in with just an announcer saying "101.3" before WJIB came back.  By the
>>> time I got into the parking lot, I had heard enough of the competing signal
>>> to think it was not a pirate but a professional station.  I even heard part
>>> of an ad for a business in Milford.  When I parked the car, the other
>>> station was coming in loud and clear, so I stayed and listened for a little
>>> bit, and they IDed as WMRC, Milford.
>>>
>>> A quick look at Wikipedia shows that WMRC is at 1490, with a translator
>>> that they just put on the air last December.  They're calling the station
>>> "MyFM 101.3" and playing adult contemporary music.  They seem to have a lot
>>> of local commercials from in and around Milford.  Not a pirate, and they
>>> must have quite a signal to be able to reach Newton Centre.  Before WJIB's
>>> translator came on, they must have been easy to pick up in Newton, at least
>>> on a car radio.
>>>
>>> I still think that whatever I heard interfering in Brookline was a
>>> different station.  Stay tuned.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/9/2017 6:50 AM, Rob Landry wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, A Joseph Ross wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looks like even Newton is on the boundary between local and distant.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now that my office is in Newton Centre, I'll have to try and listen from
>>>>> there. Unfortunately, the pirate seems to make the FM translator hard
>>>>> to listen to in most of the translator's local coverage area.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Newton Centre is on the border of what we used to call "intermod
>>>> alley", the area around the towers near Route 128 where receiver
>>>> overloading from the nearby transmitters interferes with reception of more
>>>> distant signals. I've noticed an increase in interference to WHRB's signal
>>>> on my car radio due to something new going on the air in the area; I've not
>>>> ye had the time to figure out what it may be. But it wouldn't suprise me at
>>>> all if receiver overloading is an issue with receiving WJIB's translator in
>>>> Newton Centre.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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