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WEZS Laconia coverage question

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I know that 1350 WEZS has only 112 watts (ND??) at night, but can anyone (Mr. Strassberg?) explain how that signal is quite listenable approx 15 miles away in Tilton, NH and beyond? Is there less interference on 1350?
 
> I know that 1350 WEZS has only 112 watts (ND??) at night,
> but can anyone (Mr. Strassberg?) explain how that signal is
> quite listenable approx 15 miles away in Tilton, NH and
> beyond? Is there less interference on 1350?
>

Well their tower is practically on the Tilton line. I'm not exactly sure what town it's considered in (Sanbornton?) but It's just off route 3 on Bay road, which is the street at the light right before the bridge over the lake.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by jlehmann on 08/27/05 01:37 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> > I know that 1350 WEZS has only 112 watts (ND??) at night,
> > but can anyone (Mr. Strassberg?) explain how that signal
> is
> > quite listenable approx 15 miles away in Tilton, NH and
> > beyond? Is there less interference on 1350?
> >
>
> Well their tower is practically on the Tilton line. I'm not
> exactly sure what town it's considered in (Sanbornton?) but
> It's just off route 3 on Bay road, which is the street at
> the light right before the bridge over the lake.

That would help, but it seems to me the station covers more area than you'd think 112 watts would be able to at night...it's perfectly listenable on the Tilton/Northfield line roughly 11 miles from the tower, and well into Meredith in my OEM car radio long after the 1kw (albeit far more cluttered) 1490 WEMJ Laconia is unlistenable. Could one of the now-dark-but-must-be-protected Canadian AM's have anything to do with this?
>
 
> > > I know that 1350 WEZS has only 112 watts (ND??) at
> night,
> > > but can anyone (Mr. Strassberg?) explain how that signal
>
> > is
> > > quite listenable approx 15 miles away in Tilton, NH and
> > > beyond? Is there less interference on 1350?
> > >
> >
> > Well their tower is practically on the Tilton line. I'm
> not
> > exactly sure what town it's considered in (Sanbornton?)
> but
> > It's just off route 3 on Bay road, which is the street at
> > the light right before the bridge over the lake.
>
> That would help, but it seems to me the station covers more
> area than you'd think 112 watts would be able to at
> night...it's perfectly listenable on the Tilton/Northfield
> line roughly 11 miles from the tower, and well into Meredith
> in my OEM car radio long after the 1kw (albeit far more
> cluttered) 1490 WEMJ Laconia is unlistenable. Could one of
> the now-dark-but-must-be-protected Canadian AM's have
> anything to do with this?
> >
>
Check out the WEZS night time coverage map...available at www.radio-locator.com: http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WEZS&service=AM&status=L&hours=N<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by harrisMW5 on 08/28/05 01:11 PM.</FONT></P>
 
contact station owner, GARY HAMMOND.

He's an old radio on air guy(Brook foster in the ooolllddd days, the 70s , at WLNH)and contract engineer.

I'm sure he'd be able to fill you in.
 
> contact station owner, GARY HAMMOND.
>
> He's an old radio on air guy(Brook foster in the ooolllddd
> days, the 70s , at WLNH)and contract engineer.
>
> I'm sure he'd be able to fill you in.
>
wow Gary hammond---I can remember going to that transmitter on Lake Sanborn when rats or a raccoon would fry the line or trip the breaker.......I worked at LNH in the mid 70s when sabatino was there..and for awhile for sconnix....more interestingly when it was WLNH am and fm...the am had PSA at 55 watts or something like that...some times the old dial up phaser would say it was 55 watts when it was powered at 5000 watts,,,when I used to fill in mornings I would find out when people in canada and georgia etc used to call wanting a qsl card!!!!!,,,the good old nifty 1350...memories...for awhile the id was WLHN t
ilton wlnh fm laconia
 
WLNH Tilton?? Wow, I can't believe they didn't get in trouble over that! LNH had the same old dial up phase when I was there in 89-91. I worked 7-12 and use to have the same issue..people calling from Maine, Vermont even Pennsylvania once!
> >
> wow Gary hammond---I can remember going to that transmitter
> on Lake Sanborn when rats or a raccoon would fry the line or
> trip the breaker.......I worked at LNH in the mid 70s when
> sabatino was there..and for awhile for sconnix....more
> interestingly when it was WLNH am and fm...the am had PSA at
> 55 watts or something like that...some times the old dial up
> phaser would say it was 55 watts when it was powered at 5000
> watts,,,when I used to fill in mornings I would find out
> when people in canada and georgia etc used to call wanting a
> qsl card!!!!!,,,the good old nifty 1350...memories...for
> awhile the id was WLHN t
> ilton wlnh fm laconia
>
 
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