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It sounds like WKOX has powered up
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> Driving west of 128 tonight, I could hear WKOX as loud as
> WBZ all the way to the Concord rotary as well as WRCA and
> WUNR
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This evening, there is almost no skywave.... so that is what you are hearing... good local signal with no intereference from distant stations. I was able to hear WJTO (Bath Maine)'s 6 watts all the way to Portland (35 miles away) this evening. Not a trace of CKAC-730.
> WBZ all the way to the Concord rotary as well as WRCA and
> WUNR
>
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This evening, there is almost no skywave.... so that is what you are hearing... good local signal with no intereference from distant stations. I was able to hear WJTO (Bath Maine)'s 6 watts all the way to Portland (35 miles away) this evening. Not a trace of CKAC-730.
> Driving west of 128 tonight, I could hear WKOX as loud as
> WBZ all the way to the Concord rotary as well as WRCA and
> WUNR
If you're thinking that they may have gotten the new towers for those stations on the air in Oak Hill (Newton), that can't be happening yet. I've heard that they only began construction very recently. They're not built yet.
Concord is a typical good catch for WKOX day and night, it's only about 12 miles northeast of Framingham, and their night pattern beams that way.
WRCA's night pattern also throws some signal northwest toward Concord, less than ten miles from their Waltham transmitter. It's west/southwest that they don't go at night, toward Natick and Framingham.
Like WRCA, WUNR also sends some signal northwest from Newton toward Concord. Their null is also west/southwest, toward Natick and Framingham. On a night with low skywave interference they should come in, though perhaps somewhat weak, in Concord.
> WBZ all the way to the Concord rotary as well as WRCA and
> WUNR
If you're thinking that they may have gotten the new towers for those stations on the air in Oak Hill (Newton), that can't be happening yet. I've heard that they only began construction very recently. They're not built yet.
Concord is a typical good catch for WKOX day and night, it's only about 12 miles northeast of Framingham, and their night pattern beams that way.
WRCA's night pattern also throws some signal northwest toward Concord, less than ten miles from their Waltham transmitter. It's west/southwest that they don't go at night, toward Natick and Framingham.
Like WRCA, WUNR also sends some signal northwest from Newton toward Concord. Their null is also west/southwest, toward Natick and Framingham. On a night with low skywave interference they should come in, though perhaps somewhat weak, in Concord.
> > Driving west of 128 tonight, I could hear WKOX as loud as
> > WBZ all the way to the Concord rotary as well as WRCA and
> > WUNR
> >
> ==================================================
>
> This evening, there is almost no skywave.... so that is what
> you are hearing... good local signal with no intereference
> from distant stations. I was able to hear WJTO (Bath
> Maine)'s 6 watts all the way to Portland (35 miles away)
> this evening. Not a trace of CKAC-730.
>
Oh, that explains why I couldn't hear the Stephanie Miller rerun on WWKB last night.
> > WBZ all the way to the Concord rotary as well as WRCA and
> > WUNR
> >
> ==================================================
>
> This evening, there is almost no skywave.... so that is what
> you are hearing... good local signal with no intereference
> from distant stations. I was able to hear WJTO (Bath
> Maine)'s 6 watts all the way to Portland (35 miles away)
> this evening. Not a trace of CKAC-730.
>
Oh, that explains why I couldn't hear the Stephanie Miller rerun on WWKB last night.
When the construction of the five new towers is done. I've heard that it's only just barely begun. I've heard guesses about target dates by sometime this summer or fall, but it really all depends on how the construction goes.e-dawg said:DOes anybody knows when they will broadcast 50KW?
The five new towers are a significant part of the project, but hardly all of it. The two existing towers have to come down; the new ground systems for the five new towers have to go in; new transmitters and phasors for THREE high-power stations have to be installed; the phasors have to be tuned; and the three stations' patterns (five patterns altogether) have to be proofed. That's a HUGE project! I think the most optimisitic estimate of completion is probably November, but that's just my guess and even if it were also the guess of somebody really involved, it would have to be subject to adjustment based on all sorts of potential problems that can crop up. Delivery of AM phasors, all of which are custom-designed and built, has been a major problem. There are only a couple of suppliers and their delivery estimates are apparently not especially reliable.
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