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WKLB temp. off...?

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

for several hours WKLB has been off; dead air* on 102.5, presumably either due to a tech. malfunction
or maybe it's time for maintenance. Am sure they'll be back on in morning but who knows. Don't they have
a backup transmitter/antenna?

*--by this I mean no station at all, rather than a station broadcasting just an empty carrier
 
The antenna WCRB 102.5 used after they were evicted from the WBZ-TV tower blew away in a huge windstorm during October 2005. Although it wasn't reflected in the data for WCRB at fcc.gov during the period after this happened, they were using perhaps an auxiliary antenna as a main antenna for over a year. Perhaps Greater Media engineers were scoping out what they had on the 128 tower.
 
Laurence Glavin said:
The antenna WCRB 102.5 used after they were evicted from the WBZ-TV tower blew away in a huge windstorm during October 2005. Although it wasn't reflected in the data for WCRB at fcc.gov during the period after this happened, they were using perhaps an auxiliary antenna as a main antenna for over a year. Perhaps Greater Media engineers were scoping out what they had on the 128 tower.
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No; WCRB ran at low power for a couple of weeks while American Tower, which owns the antenna, had it fixed. Afterwards they were back to normal.

That antenna is used by WJMN, WBMX, and WKLB, and standby transmitters for Greater Media's other four FM's also feed it. It's pole-mounted on top of the tower, and its height above average terrain is greater than that of any other FM antenna in the Boston area.
 
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