Providence area radio stations heard in Northern New England

[alg2468]

Are there any AM and FM radio stations from the Providence/New Bedford area that can be heard in Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont? I know that on a trip there several years ago I heard Providence's WPRO 630, then called WSKO 790, and WHJJ 920 around the Nashua area, as well as WPRO 92.3. Any others?

 

[Andy Taylor]

Just west of Portland I can get 63 WPRO & 790 WSKO.I can also get 97.3 WJFD quite often.

 

[wpxt]

In Sanford, Me I can sometimes get WCTK 98.1.

 

[dunebugg66]

I have received 92.3 WRPO at my house in New Hampshire - clear as a bell. I am about 35 minutes North of Keene. 40 minutes West of Concord, and 40 minutes South of Lebanon - aka - middle of no where.

It doesn't come in all the time, but sometimes it does.

 

[Oldbones]

I've heard WPRO on a car radio in northern N.H. (White Mountains).

In the 80s there were any number of Providence/S. Shore stations that could be heard in the Manchester, N.H. area, but new sign-ons in the late 80s pretty much killed that. Weekend overnights both 92.1 in Peterborough and 92.5 in Haverhill used to sign off making WPRO-FM an easy catch.

 

[NHRadio]

When did 92.5 in Haverhill stop signing off on weekend overnights? I worked there in 1982-4 and they were on 24/7 with a very buggy Schaefer automation system that had to be programmed from a ten key keypad....forget what language it was...hex maybe?
The thing I remember clearly is encoding the commercial carts with a keypunched paper tape to feed the as-played log.

I've heard WPRO on a car radio in northern N.H. (White Mountains).

In the 80s there were any number of Providence/S. Shore stations that could be heard in the Manchester, N.H. area, but new sign-ons in the late 80s pretty much killed that. Weekend overnights both 92.1 in Peterborough and 92.5 in Haverhill used to sign off making WPRO-FM an easy catch.

 

[nhradiochild]

I have received 92.3 WRPO at my house in New Hampshire - clear as a bell. I am about 35 minutes North of Keene. 40 minutes West of Concord, and 40 minutes South of Lebanon - aka - middle of no where.

It doesn't come in all the time, but sometimes it does.

Hmm, at first I thought maybe my hometown (Claremont) or Charlestown, but thinking about it now, there ain't no place better for outlandish radio signals within those specs than Goshen, NH.

 

[dunebugg66]

Hey NH Radiochild,

Yep...Goshen is the mecca of the radio world. It's a thriving metropolis. We even have a sidewalk over the bridge by the store! Whoa!

Just working on that runnin' water thingy....but besides that, the southern radio is reception is grrrrrrreat! (northern radio, not so much)

Not that anything is wrong with Claremont or Charlestown - but you have fancy pants folk already have electricity and sliced bread....I envy you..........

Steve

 

[nhradiochild]

Store? Singular? You mean you don't have the duelling country stores one on either side of the only intersection in town (of course, by this we mean Brook Rd.)?

Used to work for a feller that installed security systems up in those parts... which very ironically is how I got my first job in radio to begin with. He was advertising with WNTK and Bob V. met up with him and I while we were on a site, IIRC, working on a summer home in Newport for a distinguished gentlemen with Colt or Ruger or something.

 

[nhradiochild]

Yes, there's something ornery going on with the signals on the backside of Mt. Sunapee. I don't know if it's the ski-lift towers being placed in such a way, or maybe the juxtaposition of Lake Sunapee and Rand's Pond or an odd misdirection channeling through Georges Mills, but Goshen is notorious for picking up some pretty wild signals. 8)

By the way, don't envy me... um, I'm pretty much in no-man's land myself right now. lol :

 

[kms575]

I remember back in the '80's when living in Portsmouth, NH I was able to pick up 103.7. Back then it was WERI-knows as RI 104. This was prior to WPKQ (then WZPK) signing on from Mt. Washington.