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WHRB-FM & WSKX-FM Facility Change Requested

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Laurence Glavin

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The FCC Applications list included a request for the FCC to authorizes WHRB-FM 95.3 Cambridge, MA and WSKX-FM 95.3 York, ME to operate with the changed facilities announced months ago. I observed a few weeks ago that WHRB has apparently installed a new or modified antenna on the NW-facing side of the mast it has occupied since moving to Boston's Theater District years ago. Since then, I've had occasion to test the changed signal on the North Shore. I went to the Peabody-Essex Museum, not in Peabody, not in Essex but in Salem, MA the last weekend of October. From the roof of the PEM's parking garage (full for the Halloween festivities) WHRB and WSKX battled each other as I drove along about 80 feet above street level. A week later, near the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA, WSKXwas not only dominant, but seemed to be the only signal on 95.3...hardly any interference from WHRB. The masked-man probably can report how WHRB is doing on the North Shore elsewhere
 
Jimmy128 said:
I find that WHRB is coming in very clear now in Salem.

I used to get interference from WSKX but not now.
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I was talking about driving around in Salem and Rockport. In the former, WHRB was the dominant station, on the latter WSKX. Actually right in the center of Rockport where the Shalin Liu is located, WSKX was THE station on 95.3. It wasn't until I got back to route 128 again that WHRB began to come in. You didn't say whether you were listening in stereo to music or what you perceive to be music. At home almost 30 miles due north of Boston, I now get WHRB perfectly in mono; when I hit the button for stereo, there's a slight buzz of interference from WSKX.
 
To the north the signal is quite a bit weaker.I was able to listen to Kiss 95.3 in the greater Portland area with a really good signal up to South Portland inland to North Windham.Now it is almost not listenable north of Saco.
 
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