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The LPFM applications are out

Thank you --good info. It looks like there's the 98.1 application for "WHAV.net" in Haverhill.
Churches, colleges, public schools, community stations (like WHAV.net). I note a 106.7 in Northfield MA for Mt Hermon school.
I believe they used to have WNMH at 91.7 but that's now part of the WFCR 88.5/WNNZ 640 public radio

These are LPFMs and in the meantime we await a translator/repeater for WXRV 92.5 to be put on 96.5
in Needham. Approved.* That one will be 10 w at 474 Height Above Average Terrain and as noted in a diff thread don't expect it to go too far into downtown Boston. There's an LPFM application for that freq in Lynn.

*--- http://radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?657548-WXRV-96-5-Needham-approved
 
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There's another putative LPFM station on 92.1 in Lawrence. That WAS the frequency that WNNW-AM 800's translator used until it was bounced when WXEX-FM 92.1 in Sanford, Me complained. I checked the FCC file that showed the proposed transmitter site. I used Google maps satellite view and closed in as far as it went. The antenna site appears to be a tree on a residential street. The greatest danger to the antenna would not be a lightning strike but Dutch Elm Disease.
 
It's a bit of a hassle, but if you click through to each application, you can see the name of the organization and the board members along with their proposed plans for the station.
 
I'm amazed by the applicants in New Hampshire who wanted to build stations on 94.9 or 95.1. Don't they know there's a somewhat powerful station on Mt. Washington operating on 94.9? The Town of Pelham also applied for 98.1, the frequency sought for WHAV in Haverhill.
 
Subscribers to http://www.fybush.com will get a special extra edition tomorrow that will "pick out some of the more interesting applications and what may be the most contested mutually-exclusive (MX) applications". He says in today's column that there were second-adjacent freqs to be granted, and established broadcasters will be interested to see if their "new neighbors" might cause them problems (94.9: we have 94.5 in Boston, 95.3 Cambridge) and engineering studies will have to pay attention to that. \

Under the complete list Fybush published, I noted two competitors for 94.9 in Boston (BOSTON HISPANIC COMMUNITY RADIO,
RENAISSANCE CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION) and also an applicant for one in Lynn on that freq (IGLESIA CHRISTIANA TORRENTE DE CEDRON). Am guessing each 94.9 may not be too powerful (I don't have the list of powers in front of me).
Oh, Eastie has 3 applicants for 94.9 incl Winthrop Art Assoc, Zumix, and Bos Public Schools. Maybe there is a general allocation for a 94.9 in Boston and these 5 are all going for it, with the last 3 being designated as East Boston.
We'll see who gets what frequency and which organizations can pull off fundraising.

An example of an LPFM, WOOL-LP in Bellows Falls VT (6 w at 387 ft)--they're trying to upgrade power
http://www.wool.fm/
 
Scott answered my question via FB. There will be a process where the "mutually exclusive" (MX) applicants will be whittled down to only one on a certain freq like the 94.9 I saw with "Boston", "E. Boston", and "Lynn" and the limit is 100 w at 30 meters.
 
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