WJIB at 101.3
A Joseph Ross
joe@attorneyross.com
Wed Aug 16 22:42:37 EDT 2017
I get the picture. FM is where the audience is now, and I assume that's
why Bob put up the translator. The first translator I heard, a few
years ago, was WHMP's translator in Northampton. While I was listening
to them on AM, they mentioned "WHMP-FM" and gave the frequency, and I
tuned to it. It had a much better signal than the AM, and I set a
button for it on my car radio. But there was no competing station,
legal or otherwise, interfering, at least within the area that I was
driving.
So if, as I assume, Bob put the translator on the air in order to get
the FM audience, and I believe he has some FM stations, translators or
otherwise, in Maine, I would think he'd be talking about their
frequencies from time to time.
On 8/16/2017 9:49 PM, Bob Nelson wrote:
> The pirate has an Instagram message saying they have heard the rumors
> and only can say they are trying to restore programming..but people
> can get it on an app.
>
> As for FM translators I too note what Bob is doing. But:
> WSNO Barre VT got an FM translator and changed the AM from talk radio
> to CHR.. because it must be a simulcast.1450 and 105.7 now known as
> "105.7 The Beat".
>
> WMVX Salem NH is on 1110 and also 98.9 as a translator. Known as
> Valley 98.9
>
> WRCA Watertown and WNBP Newburyport each have translators at 106.1 and
> are known as Bloomberg 106.1
>
> Get the picture?
>
>
> On Aug 16, 2017 8:41 PM, "A Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com
> <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto: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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