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Fybush has details of WESX proposal

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Scott Fybush has details about the WESX proposed tower move to Lynn* in the latest NorthEast Radio Watch

http://www.fybush.com

WESX wants to go 450 w day and night from the WLYN tower. He says some FCC regs have been relaxed
but they'll still have to deal with "prohibited overlap" with WMKI 1260
over Nahant, prohibited overlap with WBUR 1240, and the issue of covering
all of their COL, Salem. WESX claims that such a move would be able to satisfy
these.

*--home of folk/pop singer Don White, "I'm From Lynn, What Can I Say?" I can say that Don is
probably appearing next Sun. on WMWM's Tracks of the Town as host Doug Mascott
has some bands down to celebrate his 43rd birthday (a mere spring chicken; I'm
45 :) )...and I'll be the board op for Doug that day)...9-noon on the station that
when all is said and done will be still licensed to Salem and still broadcasting from there!)
 
there is no way in h e ll they are going to get that tower to support another antenna on it. With WLYN now having 2 transmitters in that shoebox of a shack over there I don't think the extention cord that powers that facility can suppory much more ( only kidding Jeff)

That transmitter site is a dump, actually it's a junk yard, but WLYN has had trouble in the past with signal when they pile cars too close to the antenna.

I know Grady Moates and crew have put a lot of time and effort in over there, repairing the ground radials that were cut by a fence company, and fencing in the tower and transmitter shack.

Too bad Salem pulled the plans to build a 3 tower array over in back of Kappy's on route 1 in Saugus. I know thier last plan was to stay on the Marsh Road with improvements, but it would have been a great place for WLYN and WESX to go. Salem loves to rent space on it's towers... WAZN , WLYN's sister station in the MRBI empire is already on Salem tower space.
 
raccoonradio said:
Scott Fybush has details about the WESX proposed tower move to Lynn* in the latest NorthEast Radio Watch

http://www.fybush.com

WESX wants to go 450 w day and night from the WLYN tower. He says some FCC regs have been relaxed
but they'll still have to deal with "prohibited overlap" with WMKI 1260
over Nahant, prohibited overlap with WBUR 1240, and the issue of covering
all of their COL, Salem. WESX claims that such a move would be able to satisfy
these.
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Curious thing about the WBUR-AM 1240 overlap...at another time and on another site, Dan Strassberg stated that the FCC stopped taking salt-water propagation into account with regard to adjacent-frequency CP's. (This was in regard to a request by a NJ station on 970 requesting to boost its output to 50,000 watts over NYC, which would increase its signal toward WELI-AM 960 in New Haven, CT.) If I remember correctly, when WESX increased its daytime power from 250 watts to 1 KW, for a period of time they did so with a directional antenna daytime only. Then presto, the additional tower cam down and they went to 1,000 watts non-directional full time.
 
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