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WJIB on 101.3 within 10 months

His actual post (Friends and Lovers of WJIB):
Today, the FCC granted a "Construction Permit" license for WJIB to build an FM station to broadcast simultaneously with WJIB. The FM station will be 250 watts and be located at 101.3 on the FM dial. It, too, will come from the Cambridge WJIB tower. It should be on within the next 10 months.
 
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freqlost said:
So who will be able to hear it ?
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Good question. When I lived in (or was visiting) Swampscott, I had no problem picking up 740 on any radio. I also used to get WTBS 88.1 when it was running 10 watts from MIT -- using a good receiver with an indoor dipole-type antenna. Would I be able to get a 250-watt signal on 101.3 from Cambridge there?

Either way, I'm sure Bob's not going to start streaming, so the obvious answer is "those who can receive the signal."
 
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Bob Bittner drew a map and put it on facebook showing the approx range of the new 101.3. Not everyone who thinks they’ll get it necessarily will.
Note that:

–when they’re on FM you’ll be able to hear it on your smartphone… well…kinda. SOME smartphones have an FM chip. You can use a feature called NextRadio (free app) and IF your phone has the chip, you can hear local FM IF you’re in the listening area. My old LG Volt had it. My new Samsung Galaxy Siii does not. (The app may download but you need the chip) So in the case, IF you’re in the area Bob drew above, then maybe…

What about streaming, Bob’s listeners ask? Hey, there’s a page for WJIB 740 on TuneIn! Don’t get too excited. There may be a page but if there’s no streaming, you’re out of luck. The WJIB page says No Streams Available.

My own station,WMWM 91.7 Salem, used to be on TuneIn but now is on StreamLicensing. If I wanted to hear WMWM in, say,downtown Salem and I didn’t want to use data, then IF my phone has both NextRadio and the FM chip then yes, I could just tune it to 91.7 and hear it on my phone.

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Supposedly when WFNX had a simulcast on 101.3 it did very well, despite being only 10 watts. And hey, won’t the new station be 250 watts? But tower makes a big difference. WFNX’s old translator was on top of the Hancock Tower, I think. The new station will be on the JIB tower in

Cambridge. Don’t expect miracles.
 
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Supposedly when WFNX had a simulcast on 101.3 it did very well, despite being only 10 watts. And hey, won’t the new station be 250 watts? But tower makes a big difference. WFNX’s old translator was on top of the Hancock Tower, I think. The new station will be on the JIB tower in

Cambridge. Don’t expect miracles.
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IIRC WJIB's HAAT is somewhere around 250 feet give or take, and who knows where the bays will be placed on the tower. The tower is about 280 IIRC


If you are on top of the Hancock, you are well over 800 feet HAAT

without getting into a long discussion, the short version is height matters more than ERP in the total equation.

Bob is also hamstrung by first adjacent WGIR and others.

But something is better than nothing, and again I am thrilled for him.
 
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First, “Big City 101.3”—an unauthorized >100 Watt Dorchester pirate (there for, oh, almost 10 yrs?!?)—needs to be evicted! :D
 
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Uncle Kaimbridge said:
First, “Big City 101.3”—an unauthorized >100 Watt Dorchester pirate (there for, oh, almost 10 yrs?!?)—needs to be evicted! :D
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Surely the FCC knows where this signal is coming from by now. Will the authorization of an LP on the frequency finally get it to do the politically incorrect, sure-to-be-widely-protested-as-racist thing and bust the doors down?
 
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I should imagine coverage will be comparable to WMBR's. Are they not also running 250 watts from a fairly low antenna in Cambridge?
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WMBR has been running 720 watts ERP from an antenna on a 60' tower on top of a 28-story building in the Kendall Square area for over twenty years. It was the highest point in the City of Cambridge when it was built, it may still be.

WMBR is somewhat directional attenuating to protect adjacent channels to the north and south, but not as radically directional as Bob's FM station will be nulled to the northwest to protect adjacent WGIR Manchester, NH and to the southwest to protect a translator in Milford.

Also, WMBR in Kendall Square is a few miles east of Fresh Pond, giving it a better coastal signal.
 
CTListener said:
Surely the FCC knows where this signal is coming from by now. Will the authorization of an LP on the frequency finally get it to do the politically incorrect, sure-to-be-widely-protested-as-racist thing and bust the doors down?
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"Big City 101.3" was threatened and/or fined a few years ago, whatever happened resulted in only a couple of days off the air.
 
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