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91.7 to 104.9 WRBB ??

Yes the 8 bay antenna still stands...
The primary antenna is now a two bay Shively with directional elements.

So was the 8 bay for WVCA ever or just WBOQ?

My pictures of the transmitter site are here

--Mike
 
The 8-bay was in use by WVCA (Geller) at the time Doug Tanger bought the station in '88. Geller had been using a second-hand xmitter from, I believe, WCRB, which Tanger replaced with a Harris 2.5.....Geller's old unit became standby. When the site move came about, Geller's original xmitter kept station on air from the 8-bay site, while a moving crew hauled the Harris up the street to the new site. I had thought the 8-bay site had been demo'd. Surprised to see it's still there. In the spirit of this thread, though, we have to keep WRBB in the discussion. Did anyone else ever have this experience? Driving around and around and around the parking garage at Quincy Mkt. with radio tuned to 104.9. North side of bldg = WBOQ. South side of bldg = WRBB. Depending upon what RBB had on for programming, it was an interesting transition from classical music.
 
SERy694 said:
In the spirit of this thread, though, we have to keep WRBB in the discussion. Did anyone else ever have this experience? Driving around and around and around the parking garage at Quincy Mkt. with radio tuned to 104.9. North side of bldg = WBOQ. South side of bldg = WRBB. Depending upon what RBB had on for programming, it was an interesting transition from classical music.
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I've never had the opportunity to experience exactly that in a parking garage, but I've been many places where which side of a building I was driving by, or which side of a hill, determined which of two co-channel stations I heard. Where I live in Somerville, I can hear either WRBB or WBOQ depending on which way I turn my rabbit-ear antenna. It even changes completely from one station to the other when I turn the multi-position attenuation knob on the antenna base even with the antenna in the same physical position.

In the car in my immediate area, the two stations picket-fence each other. It switches from one to the other and back again every few feet.
 
As far as I know, that's where they stand now...though they might have retired the LPB by now and replaced the Bext as main.
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In 2003 the old LPB was retired and the former main, a Bext TEX-25, was relegated to backup status (the bottom two antenna bays). These days their primary (top two antenna bays) is a Bext XR-30 (IIRC). They also replaced the old Optimod for an Omnia 3FM Turbo processor that feeds them both, and added a Sine Systems remote control that made it legal for them to go 24/7 using computer automation (they use a freeware Visual Basic plugin called "Winamp Radio Scheduler"). More recently (this summer) they added an RDS generator, too.
 
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