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Listening to 104.1 WBCN one last time in St. Johnsbury VT

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I am on vacation for three days in the NEK VT and I have to say I am very impressed with WBCN's sign off. you could always get it here on the hills and occationally up at Lyndon State. It will be missed. are there any spots you guys are listening from. I can;t be the only one. this is 160 miles away from the Prudential Bulding here
 
Jamie, my man, you are the only one on the planet who could make the demise of a legendary Boston radio station relevant in the NEK !! Just for that, I'll have to dig out my tape with "Raz on the Radio" when I called BCN from the hilltops near Burke Mountain where I lived and made a request for a little Red Red Wine by UB40... I had a huge FM antenna on atop the house at the time, and WBCN was easy to grab when the antenna was pointed south..

With so many stations on the air around the NEK, picking up stuff from far away is a lot tougher.. CHOM-FM 97.7 was an easy get until WGMT moved to 97.7.. Oldies 103.3, 102.5 WKLB, and Jam'n 94.5 may still be heard up there without too much effort.. Most of the big Montreal stations are easily heard in the NEK.. CJAD 800 throws a big 50kw directional lobe into the NEK...Before WFTN signed on, WHJY @ 94.1 was easily heard in the hilltops of the NEK..
 
I love my sangean HDT-1 Tuner. yes I had to even get the newer one HDT-1x with a terk fm 50 Pro antenna. if only this technology was around 5 years ago! (the Sangean)
However even with the sangean the last minutes of BCN however, were in my car!

you can get Chom in spots in ST J... very hard though... you go down towards woodsville CHOM majically appears again! Chom comes in Barton but so does my new active rocker 102.3 then Kiss will interfere trhough Barton and then majically appear again as you hit route 100 and stay solid. I have no internet through here what a suprise lol.. so no internet streaming radio. Satellite has trouble too. amazingly WWLR does not and it is way out of the COL. as for Jamn 94.5 It comes in pretty good in sports but with auction 79 you can say "goodbye" to it soon. As you get over sheffield heights many radio stations from canada come in and so does roaming with no cell service with Verison so no internet streams to listen to. Right over WWLR 91.5 CBMB on 91.7 screams through lyndonville and ST.J which creates WWLR to be protected. Lasty 880AM comes in like a local from nyc 1010 WINS comes in one minute and goes away the next. 105 WTOS and 99 WBTZ are stations I really, really love up there and will both come in at lyndon and parts of town. around the area however, you go east its WTOS and you go west its WBTZ. two other good ones to try and get are 94.3 WCYY more in the whites and in NH.
WQBJ 103.5 Albany could also be heard but I could not get it in my car anywhere

Gadon said:
Jamie, my man, you are the only one on the planet who could make the demise of a legendary Boston radio station relevant in the NEK !! Just for that, I'll have to dig out my tape with "Raz on the Radio" when I called BCN from the hilltops near Burke Mountain where I lived and made a request for a little Red Red Wine by UB40... I had a huge FM antenna on atop the house at the time, and WBCN was easy to grab when the antenna was pointed south..

With so many stations on the air around the NEK, picking up stuff from far away is a lot tougher.. CHOM-FM 97.7 was an easy get until WGMT moved to 97.7.. Oldies 103.3, 102.5 WKLB, and Jam'n 94.5 may still be heard up there without too much effort.. Most of the big Montreal stations are easily heard in the NEK.. CJAD 800 throws a big 50kw directional lobe into the NEK...Before WFTN signed on, WHJY @ 94.1 was easily heard in the hilltops of the NEK..
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I would not quite yet have a funeral yet for hearing Jam'n 94.5 in Bosstown in the NEK just yet.. Just because someone may get the frequency at the auction, doesn;t mean it will be built anytime soon.. There's still some unbuilt CP's up there already.. The 94.5 signal for Albany VT, has a 100kw blowtorch of a neighbor at 94.3 from Montreal that blasts into the NEK.. I would not call Hardwick a mecca of business for the station to thrive on to survive, and the best shot for survival would be to get the signal into more populated places like Lyndonville, St. Jay, or Newport.

I used to be into trying to pick up stuff from Timbukto, streaming is much easier, and pointing a mouse is easier than pointing an antenna !

BTW 1010 WINS (One of my faves) does get into the NEK at night, though it fights with CFRB 1010 from Toronto. Both are 50kw AM's
 
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