Translators far away?

[Jeff Lehmann]

Unfortunately with the AM broadcast band on life support in most cases these days, most AM stations need to have some kind of presence on the FM band to survive at all.

Jeff Lehmann

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com> wrote:
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> There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist.
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> Chelmsford Creamery Inc. - Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Walker, Jr.
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 4:53 PM
> To: Don
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Translators far away?
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> Simple.
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> Translators don’t have city or license coverage requirements
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> Paul.
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>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM Don <astelle.donald@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Maybe some of the technical people can answer this?
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>> This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen
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>> https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX
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>> Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right 
>> next to Haverhill).
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>> Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the 
>> AM it is intended to help.
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>> How is this OK?
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>> Thanks for your thoughts...
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>> D
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