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WILD SIGNAL ??????

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kzrockwell

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I noticed today that WILD 97.7 Is weak here on the South Shore, Plymouth area, has anyone else noticed it? Was it because of their move to GBH(great blue hill)?<P ID="signature">______________
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> I noticed today that WILD 97.7 Is weak here on the South
> Shore, Plymouth area, has anyone else noticed it? Was it
> because of their move to GBH(great blue hill)?
>

97.7 has been transmitting from Blue Hill for a couple months now. Was today the first time you tried receiving them from there? The signal seems the same here as it has been since the move.
 
BUT., don't forget

That WBO, er WILD-FM is changing their antenna system on the Blue Hill. Currently the station has a CP to move to the mountain @ 1.7kW directional.
(With not yet approved test authority to operate from there)
And a modification to go to 2kW Non Directional (which they do not need to file for Program Test Authority to operate).

They could be in the process of modifying the antenna system to go non directional.
 
> Speaking of WILD signals, WILD-AM "Praise 1090" has started
> running IBOC HD.
>
Have you noticed that the new 1.9 kW CH signal from 99 Revere Beach Parkway seems noticeably weaker than the old 1 kW CH signal? Seems so to me. Even the somewhat lower efficiency of the WXKS (AM) towers compared with the old WILD tower wouldn't explain that. Had anyone been interested in bothering (apparently nobody was), WILD could have gotten permission to use 1.58 kW CH from its old site.

The "secret" in all this is that WILD's old non-CH 5 kW day power predated the current pick-a-power rules. The old 5 kw was really 4.0 kW. The tower was efficient enough to meet the minimum field-strength requirements for 5.0 kW with an antenna-input power of only 4.0 kW, so WILD must have used a radiation-limiting resistor to keep the antenna input-power at 4 kW with a transmitter-output power of 5.0 kW. (Powers between 2.5 kW and 5.0 kw weren't allowed.) Now, they just use 4.8 kW-D to get the same signal strength they used to get with 4 kW antenna-input power, which was produced by 5.0 kW transmitter-output power. The old 1.0 kW CH power would require 1.2 kW from the new site, but WILD was allowed 1.9 kW CH from the new site, so the CH signal should sound stronger--if you are in a place where the difference is noticeable. Instead, the signal sounds weaker. I don't understand that.
 
Noticed the same thing today and yesterday. Around exit 8 on Rt. 3, it's virtually unlistenable. Still OK in Duxbury, Marshfield, most of Kingston...

- Keith


> I noticed today that WILD 97.7 Is weak here on the South
> Shore, Plymouth area, has anyone else noticed it? Was it
> because of their move to GBH(great blue hill)?
>
 
> I noticed today that WILD 97.7 Is weak here on the South
> Shore, Plymouth area, has anyone else noticed it? Was it
> because of their move to GBH(great blue hill)?
>
I work in Quincy. We used to get 97.7 the BEST out of any signals in my office complex. Now we can't get it at all.
 
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