3 Boston stations make the Hartford book?

[reelyreal]

Someone must be doing some traveling... WXKS-FM shows up in the Hartford PPM's for April for the first time, as well as WAAF. What was even more surprising was to see WBMX with a 0.6 out of nowhere! Doesn't that seem a little high?

 

[BRNout]

Someone must be doing some traveling... WXKS-FM shows up in the Hartford PPM's for April for the first time, as well as WAAF. What was even more surprising was to see WBMX with a 0.6 out of nowhere! Doesn't that seem a little high?

You're right, it probably involves PPM wearers who are travelers to Boston. However, I do recall (back in my college days) being able to pick up a local-grade WAAF (of course, that was before Entercom's dreadful decision to switch tx sites) and a perfectly receivable WBMX and WXKS-FM (as well as what are now WODS and WJMN among others) from the Storrs area. All did much better in my apartment than in the car.

So, if the PPM survey area includes enough people from the right parts of Windham and Tolland counties, I guess it's plausible that there's a little Boston listening.

 

[kms575]

Someone must be doing some traveling... WXKS-FM shows up in the Hartford PPM's for April for the first time, as well as WAAF. What was even more surprising was to see WBMX with a 0.6 out of nowhere! Doesn't that seem a little high?

You're right, it probably involves PPM wearers who are travelers to Boston. However, I do recall (back in my college days) being able to pick up a local-grade WAAF (of course, that was before Entercom's dreadful decision to switch tx sites) and a perfectly receivable WBMX and WXKS-FM (as well as what are now WODS and WJMN among others) from the Storrs area. All did much better in my apartment than in the car.

So, if the PPM survey area includes enough people from the right parts of Windham and Tolland counties, I guess it's plausible that there's a little Boston listening.

I don't ever remember getting WXKS-FM in Storrs, but the old 98.5 WBMX was fairly clear and WJMN was heard throughout campus. WAAF was, of course, like a local back at that time.

 

[reelyreal]

I can get the non-pru signals in Storrs pretty well... WAAF, WBZ-FM, WODS, etc. and I think the elevation of Storrs helps out quite a bit. I don't do very well with WXKS because of WEBE, and of course I can't get WBMX because of WMRQ.

That's the other thing I didn't even think about last night... You've got co-channel WMRQ keeping WBMX out of most of CT, except for the fringes of northeastern Windham County where you get some mixing, definitely nothing listenable for your average PPM-wearing listener.

 

[KML0224]

Another problem area seems to be Killingly. Coming back from Providence on day trips, while riding along US Route 6, I would listen to WPRO-FM 92.3 (92 PRO-FM). As soon as I hit the Connecticut line, I almost immediately received interference from adjacent WWYZ-FM 92.5.

As for the mentioned shared frequencies of 93.7, 104.1 and 107.9 FM, wouldn't the same hold true with 92.5 FM as well? I think the Massachusetts station is WXRV-FM 92.5 of Haverhill.

Lastly, WBZ-FM of Boston, a.k.a. 98.5 The Sports Hub, is simulcasted most of the time on WTIC-FM HD3. Are subchannels counted in these posted numbers?

 

[GlennO]

Another problem area seems to be Killingly. Coming back from Providence on day trips, while riding along US Route 6, I would listen to WPRO-FM 92.3 (92 PRO-FM). As soon as I hit the Connecticut line, I almost immediately received interference from adjacent WWYZ-FM 92.5.

As for the mentioned shared frequencies of 93.7, 104.1 and 107.9 FM, wouldn't the same hold true with 92.5 FM as well? I think the Massachusetts station is WXRV-FM 92.5 of Haverhill.

Lastly, WBZ-FM of Boston, a.k.a. 98.5 The Sports Hub, is simulcasted most of the time on WTIC-FM HD3. Are subchannels counted in these posted numbers?

The Quinebaug Valley, like most CT river valleys, runs mostly north-south. You're driving east-west on US-6 and the central CT signals are a clear shot from the west-facing hills east of Danielson. As far west as Coventry on Route 6, some Providence stations like WPRO-FM come in decently while some big CT signals experience multi-path/picket fencing interference thanks to hills in the way.

WWYZ 92.5 gets less interference from Boston in CT's northeast corner than other CT stations because WXRV is significantly further north - which is why 92.3 WPRO-FM can be heard well into Boston itself. WXRV doesn't cover the whole Boston metro as well as the others mentioned here. Of course, with the right summer conditions WXRV may mess with WWYZ here like the best of them.

 

[Adam Rivers]

PPM meters are in Tolland County - not Windham County. Still tough to fathom an 0.6 - if you notice, the cume is very low though, much lower than stations with higher cume and lower AQH.