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Classical music on 96.3 in Salem, NH

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masscarnage99

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Driving around Salem, NH today running errands and had 96.5 The Mill on when right as I pulled onto Route 97 to go to the RMV it suddenly started getting spatter from some classical station on 96.3. I am guessing a pirate as there are no 96.3's even close to here with that format. I even went as far as checking WGBH to see if maybe longshot was their Beacon Hill translator coming in via tropo and was not. Anyone else ever hear this station before?
 
Could it have been someone using a satellite radio or an iPod or did the station come in for a long time? It could also have been tropo from another station somewhere else. I'll be sure to scan the dial next time i'm down there.
 
I've tried getting a signal in Methuen, MA overnight and today and I think I'm getting a mish-mash of the 96.3 in Maine and the 96.3 on the Cape of Cod.
 
Ha...I remember once heading into a folk music festival in Essex MA (Chebacco Lake) in late Aug.
and I noticed, scanning the dial on my car stereo, a classical signal at 96.3. It was WQXR!
 
raccoonradio said:
Ha...I remember once heading into a folk music festival in Essex MA (Chebacco Lake) in late Aug.
and I noticed, scanning the dial on my car stereo, a classical signal at 96.3. It was WQXR!
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Sometimes tropo-style skip can occur before a hurricane because there's a marked contrast in air masses, and hurricanes seem to happen often in August. It's often possible to pick up NYC AMs at the coast, but I don't think that affects FM.
 
ThatGuyOnTheRadio said:
The WFCR translator perhaps?

http://radio-locator.com/info/W242AT-FX
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Most translators are very low power, from as little as 10 watts to just a couple of hundred; you're lucky to get them much beyond the City of License. When a friend of mine in Western Massachusetts died, I went to his Memorial Service in Pittsfield. On the way back, I listened to a WFCR translator there, and it was gone in just a few mile east of town.
 
>>Sometimes tropo-style skip can occur before a hurricane because there's a marked contrast in air masses

I can't remember the exact year but it could have been 2005, when Katrina hit; the fest was a few days before the hurricane. Hmm.
 
I’m guessing it’sW242AA, which is WGBH’s translator at MIT. I seem to recall that they have been rebroadcasting WCRB since it was acquired by WGBH. A little tropo could push some of the signal a few miles further than normal.
 
kc1ih said:
I’m guessing it’sW242AA, which is WGBH’s translator at MIT. I seem to recall that they have been rebroadcasting WCRB since it was acquired by WGBH. A little tropo could push some of the signal a few miles further than normal.
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I'd +1 this one, and -1 the W242AT one. That W242AT is located on the roof of the heating plant at Williams College and is terrain shielded by just about everything.

You were hearing W242AA, which is simulcasting WCRB. (Technically I believe they are simulcasting "WGBH-HD2")
 
Necrat said:
kc1ih said:
I’m guessing it’sW242AA, which is WGBH’s translator at MIT. I seem to recall that they have been rebroadcasting WCRB since it was acquired by WGBH. A little tropo could push some of the signal a few miles further than normal.
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I'd +1 this one, and -1 the W242AT one. That W242AT is located on the roof of the heating plant at Williams College and is terrain shielded by just about everything.

You were hearing W242AA, which is simulcasting WCRB. (Technically I believe they are simulcasting "WGBH-HD2")
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Huh?
As adjacent] channel splatter?! In Salem NH!?!?! With only 5 watts!!?!!?!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

masscarnage99 said:
Driving around Salem, NH today running errands and had 96.5 The Mill on when right as I pulled onto Route 97 to go to the RMV it suddenly started getting spatter from some classical station on 96.3. I am guessing a pirate as there are no 96.3's even close to here with that format. I even went as far as checking WGBH to see if maybe longshot was their Beacon Hill translator coming in via tropo and was not.
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He even says he checked 'GBH and it wasn't them. ;)
 
kc1ih said:
I’m guessing it’sW242AA, which is WGBH’s translator at MIT. I seem to recall that they have been rebroadcasting WCRB since it was acquired by WGBH. A little tropo could push some of the signal a few miles further than normal.
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A few miles further than normal would be more like 5 instead of 2, and I think that'd even be a stretch for that station.

Just look at their directional pattern! http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W242AA&service=FX&status=L&hours=U
 
seems plausible. HAAT of 262 feet and tropo-assisted. you'll hear White Mountains hikers checking into boston 2m/70cm repeaters on half a watt..

decent radio if WMLL didnt obliterate it, i guess they don't run IBOC? ive never heard *Anything* on WERS, WGBH or WBUR's adjacents
 
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