WJIB at 101.3

[billohno@gmail.com]

I'm wondering if there is ANY enforcement going on by the FCC? 

Bill O'Neill


> On Aug 16, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>>>> 617.367.0468 | Fx:617.507.7856 | http://www.attorneyross.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>