With analog Channel 6 gone could WPHX improve their signal?With Channel 6 gone WSEW 88.7 out of Sanford now puts a great signal into Portland & WMDR from 88.9 Fairfield also putting a big signal in to Portland.WPHX has WYFP 91.9 on one side and WMME 92.3 on the other side.Are these stations far enough away?
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Could WPHX 92.1 improve signal
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necrat123
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Improve the signal how?
They can't go any higher in power, due to WFEX.
They probably couldn't move anywhere closer, due to short spacings.
(WYFP would be problematic, plus there is the IF spacing to WBLM which will hinder it too)
They can't go any higher in power, due to WFEX.
They probably couldn't move anywhere closer, due to short spacings.
(WYFP would be problematic, plus there is the IF spacing to WBLM which will hinder it too)
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Lucas93
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It seems like Sanford barely reaches Portland and Peterboro barely reaches Manchester/Nashua where the poeple are. Could they shut both down and create a higher powered Class B1 or B2 halfway ,licensed to say Raymond and cover Manchester and Seacoast NH much better? They would prob have to be directional to protect 92.5. Silberberg would put up a fight I'm sure. And forget the WCCM translator, secondary services can be bumped anyway. If it could be done, The Phoenix would have done it by now probably.
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necrat123
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Lucas93 said:
B2 ??? What's a B2?
Do you mean a B or a B1? Nope , its definatley too short spaced to go to a B1, and WAYYY too short to be a B.
There are a lot of allocations that would cause issues. Several 91.7's in Mass, NH 92.3's in Hanover, NH and Providence, RI, 92.5 in Haverhill.
Plus, again, they are IF spaced to WBLM as well.
In York Beach, I know 92.1 puts a really good signal there.
And don't forget little old W221CH - Lawrence, MA. From what I understand, WPHX had an issue with Costa Eagle moving the translator for that frequency. The two battle it out for signal supremacy here in the Merrimack Valley. Haverhill is the "hash" point for the two signals. Get into Plaistow and you get WPHX pretty well. Get closer to Methuen, its a retransmit of Costa Eagle's Power 800 Spanish music format. Yet, oddly fun to listen to both signals fighting it out when sitting almost anywhere in Haverhill.
Marc Lemay
Marc Lemay
haverhill01835 said:
In a big portion of Connecticut you can receive Long Island's WALK-FM 97.5 on a car radio. Now last year Red Wolf Broadcasting bought 97.5 W248AB Bolton, a 10 watt translator that relayed WILI-FM from Willimantic. They boosted the translator's signal to 60 watts and now use it to relay WMRQ 104.1 HD2 which they brand on the air on the air as La Bomba 97.5 . There are different areas where you're driving where literally every couple minutes 97.5 switches from La Bomba to WALK-FM. (There are also some places where it depends on which way the wind blows determines which station comes in). Yes it can be fun listening to the signals fight it out, but annoying if one of the stations is playing a song you like.
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