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New CP status in Brattlboro 107.7

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RFGeek919

Hello everyone,

I was just curious about the NEW LPFM CP in Brattleboro that is supposed to be on 107.7 Mhz. Are they on the air yet? I have went to LPFM.WS and found this:


134542 WVEW-LP 107.7 BRATTLEBORO CP Granted -- VERMONT EARTH WORKS, INC.

I see that their CP is granted but I have yet to find out when it expires. I was just wondering since I have moved out of state in 2005. I just wanted to catch up on what was the latest in the Vermont radio dial. Thanks!

-- RF Geek
 
Not on yet. They had hoped to be up and running by this point. They have rented/leased studio space on Main Street, and a large handwritten poster in the ground level storefront window says that WVEW will be "coming soon". Let's start a pool. I'll take Sept 1 as a start up date. Any other guesses? Their CP expires Sept 2 of this year (it was granted 3/2/05).

WVEW-LP @ the FCC
 
Hell, I've got $20 on September 2nd... I bet they won't be on till sometime that afternoon ;)
 
Thanks for updating me on that. I very much appreciate it! I hope they have everything ready and set-up before their CP expires. It will be a shame to let a licensed community station go to the graveyard so to say. Ever since RFB got busted, brattleboro really needs a voice on the airwaves. Hopfully they will fulfill that need like RFB did. I really respected them while they were on the air, they had a well set-up radio station with alot of community involment. It was nice to hear everyone get involved to share unique music and different veiwpoints on various topics. Lets hope that Earthworks will be a legal form of what RFB was. :) *fingers crossed*

-- RFGeek
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
Hell, I've got $20 on September 2nd... I bet they won't be on till sometime that afternoon ;)
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Looks like both our guesses may be a bit off... According to an article in Wednesday's Brattleboro Reformer, they could be up and running sometime in August. All that's left to do apparently is getting the antenna situated on the roof of the Brooks House. All the permits are in place, renovations to studio space almost completed. Just a few more "i"s to dot and "t"s to cross. I'm almost convinced that the may be almost ready to go live toward the latter half of August.
 
Tim Johnson of WTSA-FM 96.7 mentioned it a couple of times on Tuesday. He also mentioned that the minimum tower height for a licensed broadcaster is 30 feet. Does this have anything to do with the previous Radio Free Brattleboro?
 
Kevin Lagasse said:
He also mentioned that the minimum tower height for a licensed broadcaster is 30 feet.
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There's nothing in the FCC regulations about a minimum tower height.

There are regulations about exposing people to excessive RF fields. It could be that 30 feet is high enough that you could stand right under a LPFM antenna and be safely within RF exposure limits. Horizontal separation also reduces RF exposure; you could sit the antenna right on the ground & still achieve compliance if you could put up a fence to keep people far enough away. (of course, your coverage would stink!)
 
I once had a Dipole (5 feet off the ground)hooked up to a Rasmey FM25B running 50MW and got about 1 1/2 to 3 miles in a car..........
 
I was listening to them for a few minutes today while having lunch. It sounds a lot like a college radio station. The lady on air admitted that there are holes in the schedule and invited listeners to contact them about having a show. As for the reception range, it sounds about the same as Radio Free Brattleboro did in the past. My Panasonic CD Walkman got a decent signal in the north end along US Route 5 by I-91's Exit 3, between the Hannaford plaza and the Vermont Transit bus terminal (trailer actually!). Along I-91 the signal was decent to at least Exit 2 on I-91 (VT 9 West). As soon as I was south of Exit 1 (US Route 5), the signal was largely gone.
 
Istations transmitting 100 watts or less aren't required to have the same concerns as those who are higher.

But for stations higher than 250 watts, the minimum height above ground level for an antenna is 10 meters. (32 feet)
 
I wasn't aware of that.

WPIL 91.7 is 1000W at 3 feet.
 
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