FCC Touch-es 106.1, other pirates with fines, warnings

[DanStrassberg]

Re: 106.1 does not work in Boston....

At one point I had considered putting WBRS on 106.1, using the 5 bay antenna atop the 500 foot tower in Lexington (along Rte. 2) That antenna is tuned for 106.7, but would have worked well enough for Brandeis on 106.1.

Unfortunately, the rent there was quite high and that killed the project.

Originally, wasn't that antenna tuned for 100.7. Only after what had been WCOP-FM (now WZLX) moved (first, I believe, to the John Hancock building and then to WHERE... ???) and Greater Media used the tower for an auxiliary for Magic, was the antenna retuned to 106.7. But since it was retuned once, I have to assume it could have been retuned again. Right? More recently, a (religious, IIRC) outfit had applied to site a 91.7 noncomm there. Obviously, Pat Montheath was not happy and I don't think a CP was ever issued. Now, with WAVM having been granted an increase in power on 91.7, I believe the Lexington 91.7 is a dead issue.

 

[chrish]

I replaced the original WCOP-FM 7 bay RCA BFC series antenna with the current
ERI 5 bay rototiller that remains on the 500' FM tower in Lexington.
Kevin Mc Namara had moved the old WBZ-FM 10 kw RCA to Lexington with the intention of retuning the ERI antenna to 106.7 but it never happened.
The RCA was junked and the ERI antenna remains on 100.7 to this day.

Chris Hall

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Re: 106.1 does not work in Boston....

Originally, wasn't that antenna tuned for 100.7. Only after what had been WCOP-FM (now WZLX) moved (first, I believe, to the John Hancock building and then to WHERE... ???

100.7 WZLX ended up on the Pru.

More recently, a (religious, IIRC) outfit had applied to site a 91.7 noncomm there. Obviously, Pat Montheath was not happy and I don't think a CP was ever issued. Now, with WAVM having been granted an increase in power on 91.7, I believe the Lexington 91.7 is a dead issue.

It was Monteith's finally parterning with Maynard H.S. (after years of pending a competing application in Stow, MA that would have completely knocked them off the air) resulting in the granted 500w CP for WAVM, which will time-share programming content with WUMB, that effectively shut out the religious application for Lexington.

Combining the community support for their local high school station with her desire to put more repeaters on the air (even if a time-shared one) and therefore get its power increase CP finally granted (which the H.S. had failed to do on their own for many years while it remained a vulnerable Class D) turned out to be the only effective way to stave off the religious applicants from the frequency in the area.

I may have heard that it will be built once local NIMBY issues regarding a new tower are resolved.