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WESX-AM Gets License To Cover

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Laurence Glavin

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A recent FCC Applications list included permission for WESX-AM 1230 to initiate broadcasting from the WLYN-AM tower in Lynn. I'm not about to expend the gasoline to go out there...have any denizens of the North Shore happened to notice whether that's happened already? (At home, I turned one of my radios, the one I used to listen to "Let's Talk About Radio" sideways to Lynn, and could make out the programming on WNEB-AM 1230 in Worcester, although very faintly.)
 
Laurence, I have an update on WESX for you, on the way home tonight I drove
down Western Ave through Saugus and Melrose to I-93.

WESX is up and running from the WLYN tower and to my surprise in HD as the
annoying IBOC sidebands were obvious. Grew up in Salem, Mass listening to
WESX for Al Needham to say "no school all schools all day in Salem" on a regular basis and know the Marblehead signal like the back of my hand.
The signal in Melrose, Woburn and Wilmington is now very strong

Chris Hall
 
chrish said:
Laurence, I have an update on WESX for you, on the way home tonight I drove
down Western Ave through Saugus and Melrose to I-93.

Chris Hall
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But has the license to cover been GRANTED or has an application for a license to cover merely been accepted for filing? It's a technicality and even if yesterday the application had only been accepted for filing, by today, the license could be granted. However, I did not notice a grant in yesterday's FCC actions, only a notice in the applications list of an application for a license to cover that had been accepted for filing. Now, I often miss entries in the FCC daily listings so there may actually have been a grant of a license, but are we SURE that there was? Whether this is a case of a license being granted or a case of program test authority being granted is, as I said, a technicality; the station apparently has moved. But I really would like to know whether the operation is now fully licensed.
 
chrish said:
Laurence, I have an update on WESX for you, on the way home tonight I drove
down Western Ave through Saugus and Melrose to I-93.

WESX is up and running from the WLYN tower and to my surprise in HD as the
annoying IBOC sidebands were obvious. Grew up in Salem, Mass listening to
WESX for Al Needham to say "no school all schools all day in Salem" on a regular basis and know the Marblehead signal like the back of my hand.
The signal in Melrose, Woburn and Wilmington is now very strong

Chris Hall
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That's odd...I'm not getting any IBOC hash from 25 or 30 miles away. In fact I'm getting the 1240 AM in Woonsocket (unless it's the one in NH somewhere) but I haven't caught a station ID yet. Could it be the WMKI-AM 1260 hash you heard?
 
They may have been playing around the IBOC sidebands were there around 6:30 PM last night and are not on now.
 
I happened to catch the station ID at 3:00 pm and they gave it as "WESX, Salem", not Nahant.
 
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