WAMC 90.3 Albany

[robotique]

...coming in clear just NW of Boston this evening...

 

[4CX1000A]

I guess they must have their antenna fixed. When I was driving through western MA last weekend they were very weak, and their announcer said something about antenna trouble.

 

[robotique]

thats one hell of a fix ;D ;D

 

[Eli Polonsky]

It appears that local co-channel WZBC went off the air earlier than usual last night.

 

[necrat123]

The old antenna suffered a failure due to ice from last year.

There are some good pictures here.

http://www.wamc.org/engineering.html

 

[Laurence Glavin]

It's interesting that one of the entries says that WAMC-FM must retain the EXACT HAAT to continue operating at grandfathered super-power. When WGBH-FM announced a plan to move to a tower on route 128 (the WBZ-DT tower I believe), it was going to reduce its ERP from 100kw to about 70 kw, but would still be super powered for the new HAAT. But when WFCR-FM 88.5 raised its center of radiation at the same site it had been using, it went from about 35 kw at an altitude that would have been assigned about 18 or 19kw for any other station, to 13kw at 970 feet...the same as assignments in that area. WFCR DOEs have a fine signal in spite of that; I listen to the rerun of the first hour of "Weekend Edition/Saturday" on WFCR, because I refuse to get up at 8:00 am on Saturday to hear it on WBUR or WGBH-FM.

 

[carmen]

WFCR DOEs have a fine signal in spite of that; I listen to the rerun of the first hour of "Weekend Edition/Saturday" on WFCR

indeed, one of the best classical music stations making it into boston, aside from Iceland on 189khz..

 

[robotique]

WFCR DOEs have a fine signal in spite of that; I listen to the rerun of the first hour of "Weekend Edition/Saturday" on WFCR

indeed, one of the best classical music stations making it into boston, aside from Iceland on 189khz..

LOL. I have a portable LW receiver and besides local beacons, Ive only received one station...it was a top 40 station from Ireland.