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WBCN's signal coverage

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Ozman

this one kinda caught me off guard...
This weekend I went to ski At okemo and stayed in Putney VT. I used to Get WAAF pretty good here. I barely get in now... What is weird is I was surfin the radio dial and it landed on 104.1 and it was WBCN loud and clear on I-91 in VT. so I countinued to listen and to much of my surprise was able to pick it up pretty good all the way to ludlow VT. Did WBCN upgrade or move their signal to get coverage where WAAF used to get coverage... I just thought it was weired to get WBCN instead of AAF which I used to get on most of the trip
-OZ
 
Could have been atmospheric conditions. Go to DX page and check out more about it
 
WBCN generally comes and goes on I-91 between Putney and Bellows Falls, depending on the topography to the east. There are a few spots where the highway is situated high enough compared with average terrain where a lot of Boston signals come in well.

Once you get off 91 though, forget it.
 
WBCN is usually subject to some interference from the 104.1 station (now WPHH; the call-letter history of this outlet would undoubtedly be lengthy) near Waterbury, CT (Transmitter location: Prospect,CT).
 
Laurence Glavin said:
WBCN is usually subject to some interference from the 104.1 station (now WPHH; the call-letter history of this outlet would undoubtedly be lengthy) near Waterbury, CT (Transmitter location: Prospect,CT).
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WPHH-Urban/Rap (current)
WMRQ-Modern Rock (1994-2004)
WYSR-A/C (Late '80S-'94)
WIOF-A/C (1979-late '80s), Country (1969-1979)
WWCO-FM 1967-1969
 
That Hartford station has always made WBCN completely unlistenable, just as soon as you are slightly west of Worcester, too....Going north toward New Hampshire and Vermont is a different situation....
 
Jesus said:
That Hartford station has always made WBCN completely unlistenable, just as soon as you are slightly west of Worcester, too....Going north toward New Hampshire and Vermont is a different situation....
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That hartford station is a better station . Ok my name...is Rapking...not RocKing. Pats games... is the only thing thats good on BCN ( Only when the PATS win ) . Rock Live's ,Only on WHJY Providence .
 
rapking said:
Jesus said:
That Hartford station has always made WBCN completely unlistenable, just as soon as you are slightly west of Worcester, too....Going north toward New Hampshire and Vermont is a different situation....
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That hartford station is a better station . Ok my name...is Rapking...not RocKing. Pats games... is the only thing thats good on BCN ( Only when the PATS win ) . Rock Live's ,Only on WHJY Providence .
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Then move to Hartford.
 
Jamie said:
This weekend I went to ski At okemo and stayed in Putney VT. I used to Get WAAF pretty good here. I barely get in now... What is weird is I was surfin the radio dial and it landed on 104.1 and it was WBCN loud and clear on I-91 in VT.
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About seven or eight years ago I got 720 watt WMBR 88.1 FM, the college/community station from MIT in Cambridge MA, quite well when parked on a hill in Putney, VT. This was in the daytime during what were (I believe) average atmospheric conditions, no skip. All the stronger Boston market stations that weren't killed by a closer co-channel or adjacent were there too, loud and clear for the most part.

It's the elevation combined with being in an area with an open vista to the southeast toward Boston. The same phenomenon makes Boston FM stations come in like locals when up on a southeastern facing slope in the NH Monadnocks, and it still happens just a bit farther west, though not quite as strong, on some elevations in the hills of southern Vermont.

That WMBR reception I heard years ago in Putney, Vermont and in the NH Monadnocks could no longer be heard today since NPR affiliates have come on 88.1 in Norwich, VT and 88.3 in Nashua, NH.
 
Rapking spews again!. WHJY is as boring as it gets and has been for years.
 
fwdmo said:
rapking said:
Jesus said:
That Hartford station has always made WBCN completely unlistenable, just as soon as you are slightly west of Worcester, too....Going north toward New Hampshire and Vermont is a different situation....
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That hartford station is a better station . Ok my name...is Rapking...not RocKing. Pats games... is the only thing thats good on BCN ( Only when the PATS win ) . Rock Live's ,Only on WHJY Providence .
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Then move to Hartford.
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No ! I love my Big House near the Ocean . Hartford has great Hip Hop stations..But The city of Hartford (and Bridgeport ,New Haven ) has a very high murder rate .
 
Hartfod is fairly ghetto these days andd the radio reflects that!. I dont think the hip hop stations are good though. I'm not a fan of jocks trying to sound "ghetto" especially when it is so overtly fake. Jamn suffered from that for a while. It is possible to pay hip hop without having to speak in broken english because that is what some PD's think the audience expects. Hartford's stations are worse offenders than hot 106 and Jamn put together. Suburban college educated, jocks who have never missed a meal in their lives, trying to talk like the rappers they play who speak the way they do exactly BECAUSE they've not had the same chances as the jocks I mentioned,.....Rubbish.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
About seven or eight years ago I got 720 watt WMBR 88.1 FM, the college/community station from MIT in Cambridge MA, quite well when parked on a hill in Putney, VT. This was in the daytime during what were (I believe) average atmospheric conditions, no skip. All the stronger Boston market stations that weren't killed by a closer co-channel or adjacent were there too, loud and clear for the most part.
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For FM DX enthusiasts, Putney Mountain is a great location. The average car can make the climb, though I'm not sure if the towns of Putney and/or Brookline (the mountain straddles the line) maintain the road in winter. My best from that location are WALK from Long Island and WRZE from Nantucket. With the new 96.3 in the valley, WRZE is no longer possible, though. I've lived in Brattleboro for the past 20 years, and have managed to pick up most of the Boston area FMs at one time or another, but never WMBR. Nice catch!
 
I went Skiing at mt snow this friday on my way to jimminey peak and I was able to get WAAF the route 8 corridor (and at Mt Snow) to MA and until I got about 2 miles from Jimminey Peak where that country station took over.
Were they on their Paxton tower on friday???

For FM DX enthusiasts, Putney Mountain is a great location. The average car can make the climb, though I'm not sure if the towns of Putney and/or Brookline (the mountain straddles the line) maintain the road in winter. My best from that location are WALK from Long Island and WRZE from Nantucket. With the new 96.3 in the valley, WRZE is no longer possible, though. I've lived in Brattleboro for the past 20 years, and have managed to pick up most of the Boston area FMs at one time or another, but never WMBR. Nice catch!
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funny I get hosted for the night about one or two roads from that location where the road will go from concrete to dirt.
I'll Have to check out that location
 
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