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1500 watts on 650 AM

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4CX1000A

With all the changes going on on the FM dial, no one seems to have taken notice of last week's upgrade at WSRO, which went from 250 watts to 1,500 daytime, and 9 watts to 62 at night. The switch-throwing ceremony was attended by Governor Patrick, who gave a short address to the attendees and the radio audience.
 
4CX1000A said:
With all the changes going on on the FM dial, no one seems to have taken notice of last week's upgrade at WSRO, which went from 250 watts to 1,500 daytime, and 9 watts to 62 at night. The switch-throwing ceremony was attended by Governor Patrick, who gave a short address to the attendees and the radio audience.
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Several postings (some by Laurence Glavin and a very long one by me) have covered WSRO's upgrade. Unfortunately, I can't tell you how many of those posts appeared here at R-I.com and how many appeared elsewhere.

I'm still hoping that Dana Puopolo, who works for Alex Langer (I believe that Dana is GM of Alex's WFYL 1180 in suburban Philadelphia--King of Prussia PA), will address a couple of issues related to WSRO. WSRO's transmitter (I think it came from BE--Broadcast Engineering) apparently employs some of the latest in AM technology. The power changes appear to be absolutely seamless. My guess is that the power is changed at zero-crossings of the carrier-frequency waveform so that there is no need to cut the carrier, even for a few milliseconds. But such technology detracts from the romance of hearing the "pattern change". (In this case, however, there is no pattern change, per se, because WSRO uses the same pattern 24/7 even though it probably uses several different power levels over the course of 24 hours.)

But that brings up another question. From remarks I heard during the July 17 inaugural broadcast, there was apparently a Canadian allocation issue related to WSRO's upgrade--probably related to an unbuilt and never-to-be-built AM 650 in the Maritimes (Frederickton NB, maybe). If so, how does this affect WSRO's PSSA? Is WSRO waiting for the grant of its license to cover to apply for a PSSA, which I presume would be for 500W (the maximum PSSA power) from Framingham sunset to Nashville sunset? Or will the station have to go directly from 1500W to 62W at Framingham sunset? I presume that the latter is what is being done currently, but does WSRO expect to be able to add higher power service during the early evening?
 
As far as I know Dana is at WURD not WFYL.

In Boston he's best remembered as the former CE of WHDH(AM), although he did work at a number of local stations; I believe WSRO was one.
 
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