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What Timing! 105.3 Has Commenced Broadcasting

  • Thread starter Laurence Glavin
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raccoonradio said:
Yes--I've mentioned how tough it is for me to pick up Sox games at work. Last night I had to keep
readjusting the radio (rebroadcast over a mini FM trans)--moving orig radio to diff. places, etc. At one
point I had WTIC on. I did notice 830 was coming in loud and clear in N. Reading--
more powerful than 850--but unfortunately no more Sox there. I wonder if Entercom will address this
somehow. Perhaps even agree with someone to put them on a solid FM signal, normally a music station,
in Worc or central MA?

And yes the flagship of the nemesis Yankees, 880, kicked 850's butt. Again wish they hadn't left 680
which would make it so much easier for me
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Take a look at all the salt water surrounding the WCBS-AM transmitter, http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=40.85972,+-73.78583+(WCBS-AM)&om=1
and add to the mix 50,000 watts and WEEI doesn't have a chance that far west of its transmitter at night.
 
Was picking up 105.3/Red Sox today around the intersection of I-93 and I-495, Andover/Law. area. It was
fighting it out with the Shark from NH but it was coming in (at least on car stereo)
 
raccoonradio said:
I did notice 830 was coming in loud and clear in N. Reading--more powerful than 850--
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But if you had waited a while, you would also have heard WCRN become unintelligible and then go into a deep fade. WCRN delivers a good signal to Framingham at night, but inside 128, not so much! Given that N Reading is quite a few miles further from the WCRN Tx in Leicester than is my house in Arlington Heights and given that night and critical hours reception of WCRN in Arlington Heights is very problematic, what you were hearing has to have been skywave--WCRN's skywave is very "fady."

When WCRN's 50 kW night facility was waiting to be built, I never expected nighttime reception where I live to be so problematic. I suspect the soil conductivity in Leicester must be a lot worse than it shows on the M-3 map. If so, WCRN might be able to improve its night reception inside of route 128 by adding top-loading to its towers. Originally, I had thought that such a move would necessitate a power reduction to compensate for the increased efficiency and avoid prohibited overlap with WEEI, but if the conductivity is as much worse than what the engineers who designed the station might believe it to be, a power reduction might not be required.
 
mgpt6 said:
Might be a soultion if 93.7 FM increases its digital power from -20db of analog to -14or-10 db of anaolog.
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It will help a little on the fringe, but not as much as you might think. From what I've seen, I believe that HD decoding is increased something like 10% with the proposed power increase (which will cost Entercom money to do because you have to upgrade the tx). And the HD-3 will still be harder to decode than the HD-1 or 2 and it's audio will still be fatiguing to listen to.

The real solution is for Entercom to go all the way and put WEEI on 93.7.
 
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