Never Underestimate WNYE-FM's Coverage Area

[Laurence Glavin]

I live about 27 miles north of Boston. There'a station at 91.5 operating from the campus of UMass Lowell, WUML-FM. Today, it's off-the-air, and in its stead, I could hear WNYE-FM. At 1:00 pm there was a show about local sports hosted by a young man, then at 2:00 pm, a station ID for WNYE. The funny thing is that between northeastern Massachusetts and New York City, all the FMs on 91.5 are low-wattage outlets. I get WNYE almost every time WUML is off: daytime, nighttime, winter or summer. I wonder if WNYE is broadcasting from the mid-Manhattan tower yet or from Brooklyn.

 

[Walter Graff]

18,000 watts from Brooklyn

 

[neo11]

18,000 watts from Brooklyn

I know there were plans for them to move to Conde Nast in Midtown Manhattan...have they made the move yet? Back in December their audio was inaudible for several days and I think some speculated that's when the move took place, but can anyone confirm?

 

[Channel Surf]

I live about 27 miles north of Boston. There'a station at 91.5 operating from the campus of UMass Lowell, WUML-FM. Today, it's off-the-air, and in its stead, I could hear WNYE-FM. At 1:00 pm there was a show about local sports hosted by a young man, then at 2:00 pm, a station ID for WNYE. The funny thing is that between northeastern Massachusetts and New York City, all the FMs on 91.5 are low-wattage outlets. I get WNYE almost every time WUML is off: daytime, nighttime, winter or summer. I wonder if WNYE is broadcasting from the mid-Manhattan tower yet or from Brooklyn.

When I lived 40 miles west of Boston, I used to pick up WRPI-Troy/Albany regularly on 91.5. In the Albany area, WNYE is audible when WRPI is off the air.

 

[pqgeorge]

I live about 27 miles north of Boston. There'a station at 91.5 operating from the campus of UMass Lowell, WUML-FM. Today, it's off-the-air, and in its stead, I could hear WNYE-FM. At 1:00 pm there was a show about local sports hosted by a young man, then at 2:00 pm, a station ID for WNYE. The funny thing is that between northeastern Massachusetts and New York City, all the FMs on 91.5 are low-wattage outlets. I get WNYE almost every time WUML is off: daytime, nighttime, winter or summer. I wonder if WNYE is broadcasting from the mid-Manhattan tower yet or from Brooklyn.

When I lived 40 miles west of Boston, I used to pick up WRPI-Troy/Albany regularly on 91.5. In the Albany area, WNYE is audible when WRPI is off the air.

Both WNYE-FM and WRPI have excellent signals in their respective markets. I believe that WNYE-FM is still horizontal only, but will improve once they move to Conde Nast with Circular Polarization (if they have not moved already). WRPI is located on the old WCDA/41 (now WTEN/10) tower in North Greenbush, NY with it's over 10,000 watt signal which covers a lot of real estate in New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. I heard both stations during strong trops here South of Boston and when I do some routine maintenance at WBIM-FM/91.5 (Bridgewater State College). Both 'RPI and 'NYE are real old-timers in terms of actual airdates. Check that out sometime.

 

[nd2023]

There was tropo on Thursday

 

[neo11]

This really is nothing new....for instance, I've heard WJBR 99.5 from Delaware in NYC at times when WBAI was off the air.

Also, during the blackout of August 2003, I was able to clearly receive some stations from Long Island in NYC that normally had no shot of being heard in the city, even WUSB (Stony Brook University).