WAAF - Worcester

[rapking]

Re: Uhm Hello? Mc Fly???

I know what the Paxson signal does-because I designed the freaking pattern!

I love how somebody who actually knows what they're talking about just came on here and handed all the pundits their lunch.

This board is great.

I love how people come on here and make claims...and are automatically believed, with no evidence offered.

My son designed a few stick men, listening to the radio . I just Hope that none of these stick men was listening to Boston Rock Stations. Because I dont want to tell my son, Why did his stick men, drop dead .

 

[argytunes]

When I worked weekday mornings on WAAF and then travelled to my Saturday night weekend job (at WGAN/AM 560) during 1973 and 74, that Paxton signal followed me every mile until I got close to Downtown Portland, Maine!

The format was "free form"---most of the jocks were pretty good (a pat on the head to myself)...and it made the less than 2 hour drive to Portland, Maine go very quickly.

argytunes

 

[LA_Guy]

Re: Uhm Hello? Mc Fly???

I know what the Paxson signal does-because I designed the freaking pattern!

I love how somebody who actually knows what they're talking about just came on here and handed all the pundits their lunch.

This board is great.

I love how people come on here and make claims...and are automatically believed, with no evidence offered.

Enough people here know me to know that I am the real deal...

 

[Play Freebird]

Re: Uhm Hello? Mc Fly???

Enough people here know me to know that I am the real deal...

I've seen the Shively pattern plots for the Paxton site and will confirm the information you gave is right on the mark.

On the other hand, the DA plots for Boylston (I posted the link in an earlier message) are downright depressing. The relative field at 90 degrees azimuth is just a tad above 50 percent (quarter-power), which means the ERP towards Boston is somewhat less than 4 kW, and the Channel 27 tower provides only a 3 meter increase in elevation above mean sea level, compared with Paxton.

 

[vibe]

There's a location near the intersection of Central Tpke and Hill St (at the 5 way stop sign) where 97.7 will come in on seek /scan but 107.3 does not.
And that's on a hilltop so to speak. Down the hill going about 1-1.5 mi E is Rt 122 where AAF does not come in on scan in MOST spots. That location is adj to the Blackstone River in Northbridge. Of course 97.7 doesn't come in down there (on seek/scan) but other Boston stations certainly do (with transmitters being approximately twice as far.) 96.1 from Paxton certainly come in there FWIW.

This NEVER happened with the Paxton site. I was one of those "out of market" folks who listened to AAF in the early 70's driving from New Britain CT to Southwick MA. No more.

 

[nhradiochild]

Oh c'mon, EVERYBODY KNOWS that physical location in closer proximity to your target audience is ALWAYS better than a more distant one, even if the signal quality is greatly reduced by a hatchet job in power!!! : :'( :-X

 

[pqgeorge]

Re: Uhm Hello? Mc Fly???

Enough people here know me to know that I am the real deal...

I've seen the Shively pattern plots for the Paxton site and will confirm the information you gave is right on the mark.

On the other hand, the DA plots for Boylston (I posted the link in an earlier message) are downright depressing. The relative field at 90 degrees azimuth is just a tad above 50 percent (quarter-power), which means the ERP towards Boston is somewhat less than 4 kW, and the Channel 27 tower provides only a 3 meter increase in elevation above mean sea level, compared with Paxton.

And I can vouch for LA Guy. He's one of the finest engineers I have ever worked with. He knows the market better than practically anyone else. And when he says that the "Channel 27 site is a dog", he KNOWS what he's talking about. Moving WAAF to West Boylston was probably one of the biggest technical blunders since WCBS-FM went to JACK (and we know what happened there. Can you say, boomerang?). WAAF had the reach (and then some) from the old Channel 14 tower in Paxton. The coverage to other nearby markets was "gravy", and came at no extra cost whatsoever. Now, Entercom is paying rent for two transmitter sites instead of one (Paxton). Downtown Boston and the suburbs now have a weaker signal from West Boylston, compared to Paxton. So tell me something.... How can moving WAAF from a more total market signal from Paxton to a patently weaker signal from West Boylston make for a "smart business decision"? They'd be better off going back to Paxton full-time and leave the Channel 27 site as a warm standby.

And let me say this. Many of the concerts I went to at the Springfield Civic Center, back when I was a student at Westfield State, were as a result of information and concert reports I heard on WAAF. And if you know about colleges, there are an abundance of them in Western Massachusetts. And at the time I was a student, WAAF was the station of choice for many students due in part to that killer signal that came from Paxton. The good thing about 'AAF, at the time, was that you could drive from Boston to the Berkshires and never lose it.

 

[MarcB]

Yeah. Have AAF go back to their old site. And dump 97.7 FM. Give it to the Touch-FM Folks.

 

[rapking]

Yeah. Have AAF go back to their old site. And dump 97.7 FM. Give it to the Touch-FM Folks.

I like to see that happen( It will Not ). WAAF Does need to go back to their old Site. WAAF 107.3 Cover The whole state and 97.7 cover the city . Now Thats a Money Maker !! Give 97.7 to Touch-FM ?? We all know Entercom is not going to give anything away, Does Touch-FM has 30 Mill ( or More) ?? 97.7 Touch-FM sound Great, but it will not happen .

 

[NHRadio]

Sarcasm seems to be lost on you. So Entercom is supposed to to give a bunch of pirates a 25+ million radio station?
We all agree that WAAF's xmtr move seems to be a mistake, but just because a gaggle of lawbreakers illegally play music you like doesn't mean they're entitled to anything.

Yeah. Have AAF go back to their old site. And dump 97.7 FM. Give it to the Touch-FM Folks.

I like to see that happen( It will Not ). WAAF Does need to go back to their old Site. WAAF 107.3 Cover The whole state and 97.7 cover the city . Now Thats a Money Maker !! Give 97.7 to Touch-FM ?? We all know Entercom is not going to give anything away, Does Touch-FM has 30 Mill ( or More) ?? 97.7 Touch-FM sound Great, but it will not happen .

 

[rapking]

Sarcasm seems to be lost on you. So Entercom is supposed to to give a bunch of pirates a 25+ million radio station?
We all agree that WAAF's xmtr move seems to be a mistake, but just because a gaggle of lawbreakers illegally play music you like doesn't mean they're entitled to anything.

Yeah. Have AAF go back to their old site. And dump 97.7 FM. Give it to the Touch-FM Folks.

I like to see that happen( It will Not ). WAAF Does need to go back to their old Site. WAAF 107.3 Cover The whole state and 97.7 cover the city . Now Thats a Money Maker !! Give 97.7 to Touch-FM ?? We all know Entercom is not going to give anything away, Does Touch-FM has 30 Mill ( or More) ?? 97.7 Touch-FM sound Great, but it will not happen .

Who said they (Touch-FM) are entitled to anything ? Entercom can do whatever they want with 97.7 signal ( 97.7 Entercom Owned signal).