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Better Signal From WAMG Due North

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Laurence Glavin

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This is weird. WAMG-AM 890 COL Dedham, Ma TL Ashland, Ma is coming in significantly better where I live due north of Boston. It even splatters a little over WGHM-AM 900 in Nashua, NH. They don't have to worry about Merrimack Valley coverage, what with their synchronized signals from Lowell and Lawrence on WLLH-AM 1400. (BTW, the Lawrence stick has been running ok ever since the end of the heat wave a few weeks ago.)
 
Laurence Glavin said:
This is weird. WAMG-AM 890 COL Dedham, Ma TL Ashland, Ma is coming in significantly better where I live due north of Boston.
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Sounds as if something is out of adjustment. If you look at the patterns, WAMG's day pattern in particular is deeply nulled to the north to protect WGHM. And the daytime protection of WGHM is supposed to be more severe than the nighttime protection. WGHM is a Class D AM and its night signal is not protected by any station. WGHM ought to complain to WAMG. That might motivate WAMG to have an engineer make some field-strength measurements. If the array is out of whack, WAMG might then make some adjustments. Of course, WQOM might be doing stuff that has upset the array. AFAIK, WQOM has never applied for a license to cover the new day pattern and power that first went on the air well over six months ago. Or maybe one of the towers and its associated ATU might have suffered a lightning strike in a recent thunderstorm. Those tall towers must get hit quite often. Last year what was then WBIX suffered some rather significant damage.
 
As of Friday, August 19th, WAMG-AM 890's signal is seemingly back to normal. One of my radios has a relative signal strength display, and for the past week WAMG has been registering I would say 75% of the strength of WGHM-AM 900 in Nashua, NH. Now it appears to be back to 25% or so. Also, for the last few days I was able to tune it in while driving around in the Merrimack Valley, and it was splattering WGHM a little bit since WAGM playing recorded material while WGHM was running sports talk. This has happened before, and I surmised that they may have been doing work on one or more of the towers and perhaps running 1, 2 or 3 KW NDA. But now there's another station (WQOM-AM 1060) running 50K during the day using the same towers, and WQOM's signal was the same.
 
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