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Heard 101.7 WFNX in Warwick

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Jacko

So the other day I was visiting family in Rhode Island (I live in the Boston area now) and as I was driving down Bald Hill Road near where the Tent used to be, I was station flipping. Of course, I still have all Boston-area stations set. I hit the button for 101.7 and heard WFNX pretty clearly for about 10 seconds before it started to fight with the static. I was able to hear them long enough to know that it was in fact WFNX. I checked and both WWBB and WCIB were broadcasting. There's no real point to this aside from the fact that I was pretty surprised, as usually WWBB issues its signal beatdown on WFNX around the Foxboro/North Attleboro line.

Jacko
 
For the most part I have always been able to get Boston stations until I hit Exit 5 on I-95 in Rhode Island. I think that is West Greenwich. That's when Boston stations start to vanish.
 
Skynet--WFNX is a Class A station, 6kw equivalent. It doesn't (or shouldn't) have the same kind of juice that a major Boston FM would have. I think yesterday was kind of a fluke, or maybe right place, right time.

Jacko
 
Jacko said:
Skynet--WFNX is a Class A station, 6kw equivalent. It doesn't (or shouldn't) have the same kind of juice that a major Boston FM would have. I think yesterday was kind of a fluke, or maybe right place, right time.

Jacko
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Must be a fluke, I have a hard time picking up WFNX in East Bridgewater MA.
 
rapking said:
Jacko said:
Skynet--WFNX is a Class A station, 6kw equivalent. It doesn't (or shouldn't) have the same kind of juice that a major Boston FM would have. I think yesterday was kind of a fluke, or maybe right place, right time.

Jacko
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Must be a fluke, I have a hard time picking up WFNX in East Bridgewater MA.
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WAY too far south. I grew up in the next town over, Hanson, and we were lucky to get them there over the years. With WWBB broadcasting in HD now, anywhere south/south west of Rockland/Weymouth on the South Shore, forget it. Which brings one question I've always wondered...why is WWBB so short spaced to WFNX? Isn't their transmitter in MA while the rest of the Providence stations have theirs in RI further west?
 
As I understand it, the WWBB installation on the WNAC tower, is much tigher directional than it even needs to be towards WFNX in Boston. (They use the tower to directionalize the signal, which is why you see no directional hardware on the antenna.) If WWBB had used a less strict pattern of directionalization, as they supposidly could have, WFNX wouldve never been allowed to move to their current site, or they would've had a much tighter pattern.
 
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