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Has WFNX made their move?

J

jlehmann

The signal seems a little stronger, and their RDS is off. Does anyone know for sure if they have moved to One Financial? It should be obvious to anyone right in the city.
 
> The signal seems a little stronger, and their RDS is off.
> Does anyone know for sure if they have moved to One
> Financial? It should be obvious to anyone right in the city.
>

It's a directional CP, they haven't filed for PTA, or License to cover, yet.
 
> The signal seems a little stronger, and their RDS is off.
> Does anyone know for sure if they have moved to One
> Financial? It should be obvious to anyone right in the city.

Their Hancock Tower repeater on 101.3 is still on. I've heard that's supposed to go off when 101.7 goes on from One Financial.
 
> > The signal seems a little stronger, and their RDS is off.
> > Does anyone know for sure if they have moved to One
> > Financial? It should be obvious to anyone right in the
> city.
>
> Their Hancock Tower repeater on 101.3 is still on. I've
> heard that's supposed to go off when 101.7 goes on from One
> Financial.
>


Still no HD either.
 
> The signal seems a little stronger, and their RDS is off.
> Does anyone know for sure if they have moved to One
> Financial? It should be obvious to anyone right in the city.
>

They sent an email out last month (figures I can't find it now) to FNX Card holders, which I believe said they had made the move and explained that the downtown Boston signal would be fixed.
 
> > The signal seems a little stronger, and their RDS is off.
> > Does anyone know for sure if they have moved to One
> > Financial? It should be obvious to anyone right in the
> city.
> >
>
> It's a directional CP, they haven't filed for PTA, or
> License to cover, yet.
>

I'm not surprised if they haven't filed for PTA yet; don't you only get 10 days after PTA begins to file for a license to cover (LTC)?

It's a VERY complicated installation that WFNX is putting on OFC. I know the guy who engineers WHRB and it's their tower (WERS is on the other one) on top of OFC that WFNX is going to and he mentioned that they had to measure things down to the millimeter and take all sorts of field intensity measurements to make sure that WFNX's new array would change WHRB's directional pattern.

After WHRB and WERS went up on OFC, the conventional wisdom was for many years that there was just no more room to put anything else up there...but WFNX is proving that wrong. Although admittedly they're spending a small fortune to do so.

BTW, so far I don't think anyone has definitively answered that the 101.3 translator must "go away" once WFNX completes their move. Although I, among others, do freely admit that it seems unlikely the two can co-exist according to FCC rules. However, given how 101.3 did little to bring WFNX programming into downtown (b/c of its low wattage) I suspect it's purpose was primarily to prevent anyone else from getting that frequency.
 
Will having the transmitter this close to South Station have an adverse effect on those not atop the Prudential Center right now, such as WJMN-FM 94.5 (especially Jam'n in my case!)? Both of my Walkmans have trouble with 94.5 FM now, even when I switch them to "CITY/LOCAL" mode.<P ID="signature">______________
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