I used to regularly listen to WHOM in my car driving about downtown Providence, RI. IT came in like a local most times.
The station running the lower power is 103.7, licensed to Berlin, NH, a FULL CLASS C station, derated due to height.
I once tried to allocate 96.3 atop Mount Washington As a full class A station, it would have been derated to 60 watts ERP!
It still would have covered half a hundred miles in some directions (where there was no co or adjacent channel interference).
Alas, someone else wound up putting it down in the valley, where no one can hear it.
Winter access is via snow cat and/or helicopter in emergencies. When channel 8 was still there, TV engineers worked there in two week shifts (two weeks on, two weeks off). They also took care of the FM transmitters and the generators. The weather station is also staffed-and the workers there shared housekeeping duties. In the summer, the huge freezers there were stocked with enough frozen food to last the entire winter without restocking.
After the generator fire, I believe that utility power was run up the mountain along the railway tracks.
I have no idea what the engineering arrangement is now. I know that Citadel owns both FM stations located there now, and they are a pretty cheap company.
The station running the lower power is 103.7, licensed to Berlin, NH, a FULL CLASS C station, derated due to height.
I once tried to allocate 96.3 atop Mount Washington As a full class A station, it would have been derated to 60 watts ERP!
It still would have covered half a hundred miles in some directions (where there was no co or adjacent channel interference).
Alas, someone else wound up putting it down in the valley, where no one can hear it.
Winter access is via snow cat and/or helicopter in emergencies. When channel 8 was still there, TV engineers worked there in two week shifts (two weeks on, two weeks off). They also took care of the FM transmitters and the generators. The weather station is also staffed-and the workers there shared housekeeping duties. In the summer, the huge freezers there were stocked with enough frozen food to last the entire winter without restocking.
After the generator fire, I believe that utility power was run up the mountain along the railway tracks.
I have no idea what the engineering arrangement is now. I know that Citadel owns both FM stations located there now, and they are a pretty cheap company.