WJIB at 101.3

[A Joseph Ross]

Well, I'm glad the pirate moved, since it made the WJIB translator 
useless in my area.  Without the pirate interfering, the FM signal is 
superior to the AM signal, especially at night.

I notice that Bob hasn't mentioned the translator on the air yet, he 
just refers to 730 and 740.  That harkens back to my younger days, when 
stations that did AM-FM simulcasting (except for WCRB) talked about the 
AM frequency and almost never mentioned the FM frequency. That was fine 
back when most of the audience was on AM, but I assume Bob put up the 
translator, as well as his other stations in Maine so that people will 
listen to them, and they won't unless they know about them.

I suppose the WJIB translator is still in the test stage, but Bob 
doesn't mention the other Maine stations either, unless he uses 
announcements that are only heard in Maine.


On 8/16/2017 5:17 PM, Bob Nelson wrote:
> Hearing from 2 different people that the pirate first tried 100.5, and now
> 100.9...both right next to WZLX.There's a huge list of local pirates in
> Boston, Brockton and elsewhere...including some others right next to big
> legit stations like this.
>
> On Wednesday, August 16, 2017, Kaimbridge M. GoldChild <Kaimbridge@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Bob “RaccoonRadio” Nelson 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.
>> Yup, by 2:25am Monday morning, “Big City 101.3” was no where
>> to be heard at the South Station postal facility (or—later
>> confirmed—anywheres up on the North Shore)...just Bob B.ʼs W267CE
>> (w/Milfordʼs W267CD mixing in, up on the North Shore)!
>> Back in March, I got the Sangean DT-160 AM/FM Pocket Radio, with
>> good sensitivity, excellent (even adjacent channel) selectivity
>> and SUPERB(!!!) image overload rejection:  While all of the other
>> radios at South Station were “image wastelands” on FM due to the
>> Pruʼs FM stick, the DT-160 had absolutely NO imaging whatsoever
>> (even in the all-window cafeteria facing the Pru) except, maybe,
>> very, very, VERY slight (and I mean to the point of not really
>> being able to distinguish from the background noise floor!)
>> “image hash” at the very bottom of the dial (87-89 MHz), as well
>> as maybe an extremely weak image at .2 MHz above (and below?)
>> the Pru signals (e.g., 100.7➜100.9)—though easily overtaken by
>> the slightest bona fide on channel signal!....The biggest gripe
>> I have with the DT-160 is its about .6-.9 sec. frequency change
>> silence!
>> What this means is—besides getting the Cape, RI, Worcester and
>> SEʼrn NH to varying strength as regulars (as well as any tropo
>> from ME to CT to LI/NYC {have already logged CT-95.7 and LI-97.5
>> a couple of times} and probably even further)—all of the (even
>> Pru adjacent channel) Boston area pirates are receivable at
>> South Station!
>>
>> (I was off last night, and the night before I didnʼt hear
>> anything on 100.5, but I will most certainly check tonight)
>>
>>       ~Kaimbridge~
>>
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