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WESX Nahant coming soon (si!)

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

A post on boston-radio-interest by L. Glavin says that the FCC approved the COL change for
WESX to the booming metropolis of Nahant; tower moves to the WLYN site in Lynn, power down to
450 watts. Serving that huge Spanish speaking population in my home town (Nahant, a part of
Lynn until 1853), eh?

http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-281753A2.pdf
a couple pages down

From WESX entry on http://www.radio-locator.com :
>>New CP Frequency 1230 kHz
New City Nahant, Massachusetts
Power 450 Watts

Day signal from the forthcoming stick in Lynn:
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WESX&service=AM&status=C&hours=D
 
Do you know if they need any help such as a board op, production, gopher, janitor etc?
 
Hey the landscapers have to listen to something while they are manicuring Gennaro's front lawn.

that 450 watt signal is really all they can do with a Worcester 1 Kw on the same freq.
 
NSPUNX: their studios are in Chelsea--here's their site and you can contact them
http://www.wesx1230am.com/

ZRXOA 5248: yeah and WKOX Framingham and WMKI Boston (1200, 1260) had to be factored in too,
I guess. Here in Beverly if you walk around with a typical Walkman you'll find WESX pops up all over
the dial (site from across the water in M'head) but that will change once they move to the WLYN stick.

Gennaro--ha, his son Jason used to be one of my Dad's Sea Scouts...

A video of the current WESX studios (down the road from Floramo's in Chelsea?). Narrated
in Spanish or Portuguese...
http://www.iadm.net/videos/radio.MPG
 
raccoonradio said:
A post on boston-radio-interest by L. Glavin says that the FCC approved the COL change for
WESX to the booming metropolis of Nahant; tower moves to the WLYN site in Lynn, power down to
450 watts. Serving that huge Spanish speaking population in my home town (Nahant, a part of
Lynn until 1853), eh?

http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-281753A2.pdf
a couple pages down

From WESX entry on http://www.radio-locator.com :
>>New CP Frequency 1230 kHz
New City Nahant, Massachusetts
Power 450 Watts

Day signal from the forthcoming stick in Lynn:
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WESX&service=AM&status=C&hours=D
Click to expand...

Why is there a listing for day AND night facilities? That's normal for DA-2's, but WESX uses a non-directional antenna now and will under the new regime.
 
Laurence Glavin said:
Why is there a listing for day AND night facilities? That's normal for DA-2's, but WESX uses a non-directional antenna now and will under the new regime.
Click to expand...

That's the way most AM apps are done nowadays. A lot of AM applications include a third section for critical hours even though they require no special CH facilities. The reason for the the separate day and night records in AM applications and in CDBS is the large volume of day- and night-specific data that must be supplied. The day and night protection situations differ substantially. Although WESX's proposed day and night facilities appear to be identical, many Class C AMs run different day and night powers. In such cases, it is common for the day power to be somewhat lower than the night power in order to meet the more demanding daytime protection criteria--particularly if one or more of the stations at issue is a Class B on an adjacent channel.
 
Hmmm...I wonder how well this'll work with WBUR 1240AM (down on the Cape) running IBOC 24/7. I imagine the two signals already beat the hell out of each other along the south shore to begin with...although obviously that's outside of both stations' service areas.

Then again...looking at Radio-Locator's coverage map for WBUR, I'm reminded that the tower site is on the south side of the Cape, so there's enough earth to attenuate the signal a ways heading northward before that wonderfully salt water is reached. Come to think of it, this move by WESX is south and to the west somewhat, so maybe it'll put more of the south shore between the two stations and make things perhaps a little better? I don't know enough about AM signal interaction to really know for sure.
 
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