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WKVB 107.3 license to cover filed.
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New Hampshire is big, as I live here. I actually can walk for 10 minutes from my front door and be in Massachusetts, so Boston and Manchester are my two area markets. The three big cities in the southern part of the state are Manchester, Concord, and Portsmouth. Of course there is the Dartmouth area near Vermont, Then go further north, and there are small towns/cities near the Canadian boarder. I'm not as familiar with radio stations beyond the Laconia area.
In NH, you can get K-Love on 99.9 (Salem/Nashua/Derry), 102.3 (Concord/Manchester/Franklin), 105.7 (southern White Mountains/northern Lakes), 103.1 (Lebanon/Hanover/Claremont) and 99.1 (Berlin/Littleton/Gorham). Air1 is on 106.5 in the Seacoast and Lakes Region (although it’s hard to get south of Portsmouth) and 93.9 from Lewiston, ME booms into Carroll County (North Conway, Ossipee, etc.).
Interesting...Back around 1970....In the early days of WAAF's Progressive Rock format...107.3 in Washington DC was also Progressive Rock as WMAL-FM...
For a noncom, they have quite a reach!
With WKVB's recent transmitter move, their signal is overcome by W297BS just north of the Hooksett Toll Plaza where prior to the move, WKVB was listenable north of Concord. In the Paxton days, WAAF was listenable up to the Lakes Region but those days are long gone now.
WKVB is trying to target Boston within allowed FCC regs. for the frequency by moving it a bit closer to Boston with lower power. K-Love has other affiliates in NH, they don’t care about reaching NH if they can improve Boston area coverage.
And now they've got three boosters on that new MaxxCast system that pretty much a similar area from Boston to Cambridge, interestingly enough. I have always wondered how those folks managed to make it so that it didn't overlap as much.
Hi Everyone, speaking of WKVB, I tuned in to radio for the first time in a while. East of Downtown Boston, the signal was staticy. However, I very unexpectedly was able to pick up K-Love loud and clear on WUBG 105.3. This was very surprising, because I am supposedly outside of that stations range, go figure!
Assuming that you were still east of Downtown when you picked up 105.3, I conclude that you had some ocean enhancement. Check out https://rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=9e0de29357274fefab07c1b6063ebeb7&map=Y for a Longley-Rice map that accounts for the water. And then on top of that, you could've had a slight amount of Tropo. And of course, FCC "contours" often under-estimate a station's ability. Either way, that's pretty neat!
Yes, it is very quite possible!
Yes, from the map, I was well within that range!
Would it be possible for 107.3 to possible transmit from either Cedar St in Needham or Chesnut St in Newton? Or would it be too close to 106.7 and 107.9 for that?
What towers I mean, are the main TV transmission tower for the Boston TV stations, or the 94.5/98.5/103.3 tower nearby?
No disrespect, however 107.3 even from Hudson would likely be a western suburban signal for Boston, rather than a downtown signal for Boston.
What towers I mean, are the main TV transmission tower for the Boston TV stations, or the 94.5/98.5/103.3 tower nearby?
No disrespect, however 107.3 even from Hudson would likely be a western suburban signal for Boston, rather than a downtown signal for Boston.
107.3 is catering to largely suburban listeners, though. While many signals need that downtown coverage, 107.3 is probably better set blasting into MetroWest and Worcester County rather than sending lots of signal out to sea.
With 107.3 to the west and 95.5 to the south, K-Love's real gap appears to be to the north -- translator rental aside. A signal like WSAK (which, in all honesty, isn't adding a ton of value as a simulcast of WSHK) would fill the gap between where 107.3 drops off and where 89.3 in the Portland area picks up.
No, I did not propose sending lots of signal out to sea. If you even thought about taking me for that, how about the stations on Prudential (theres 7 of them) that send about 25-30% of their signal over the Atlantic Ocean, however those signals reach downtown Boston and immediate suburbs perfectly.
The thing I am suggesting was to improve reception in downtown Boston, and cater to downtown Boston listeners, which my suggestion could possibly do, but there is probably technical reasons why it isn't possible.
95.5 would do well south of the I-90/I-95/I-93 interchange, but not at all in downtown Boston.
The thing I am suggesting was to improve reception in downtown Boston, and cater to downtown Boston listeners, which my suggestion could possibly do, but there is probably technical reasons why it isn't possible.
95.5 would do well south of the I-90/I-95/I-93 interchange, but not at all in downtown Boston.
FWIW, I used to pick up 95.5 on my stereo back when I was living just South of Downtown Boston. I received a good handful of stations from the Providence market for that matter, also.
Does 107.3 have a downtown Boston signal gap now, given that EMF entered into a diplex agreement with WXLO-FM1 on the John Hancock Tower?
The signal does not seem to be making it just across the harbor at all.
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