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101.3 Big City Pirate powers in

mgpt6 said:
101.3 makes it to Avon on Rt 24 almost to Brockton. It does NOT go into the ONeil Tunnnel.
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The Boston tunnels are "wired". Most of the major local stations are piped in through wiring. Of course, they're not going to pipe in a pirate.

Without the wiring, the only FM stations that might make it into the O'Neil would be the ones on the One Financial Place building almost directly above (WERS, WHRB, WFNX), and you may get spotty reception of the Class B's on the Pru, and possibly a bit of 100kW WGBH. The FM-128's would probably not make it into the O'Neil on their own, though they can be heard on the Pike under the Pru.
 
I remember reading a spec sheet on this a while back, IIRC there are 20 FM's and 10 AM's piped into most (not all) of the I-93 Big Dig (O'Neill) tunnels via leaky-cable...probably Andrew NF-2DS or a derivative (that's a guess, but an educated one). So there are several signals "left out" of the rebroadcast scheme. There was some minor controversy because WFNX wasn't chosen; the selection was done by Arbitron ratings and WFNX didn't make the cut. I think that's why none of the non-comms were rebroadcast, but later WBUR might've been added. I don't remember if WBUR is still rebroadcast or not but I think it isn't, which is a shame.

Actually the OFC signals are tough pulls in a lot of the tunnels precisely because they're directly beneath OFC. Those towers on top are only so tall, so the skyscraper itself "shadows" a lot of the ground around it. And those are four-bay arrays (well, two for WFNX) so there's a fair amount of "focusing" of the signal, reducing top and bottom signal lobes quite a lot.

Based on when I've driven through the tunnels, you can get WERS and, to a lessor degree, WHRB in the northern half of the tunnels but not the southern. I don't know about WFNX. The Pru stations all come in fine but they're all rebroadcast, IIRC. I rarely could get WZBC down there, though...nor WMBR...must be a difference in car radios.
 
Last September and October WFNX was added to all the tunnels except the Sumner and Callahan due to the the systems in place its was not an easy request
but 101.7 will be added eventually when the systems are reworked or replaced.
 
mgpt6 said:
WZBC is solid in the Oneil tunnel. Dont know about Sumnter or Callahan.
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WZBC must've gotten in on the O'Neil wiring setup somehow. I don't think their 1 kW signal from Chestnut Hill would make it inside there on it's own.
 
I remember reading a while back that the person who chose the stations for the oneil added zbc to the roster because he liked the station.
 
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