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WMEX 1510 Boston

CTListener said:
How long before the FCC tires of all this, denies the request to go silent, and leaves Perry to figure out how to recoup his sunk costs? And what are the odds that if WMEX finally makes it to the air with its own programming that it won't be with oldies, local sports and local talent but with recorded dollar-a-holler programming?
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Ed Perry will NEVER recoup his sunk costs in his lifetime.... he is at least 300K into this fiasco, he learned nothing from 1460 being a disaster as far as getting a transmitter site, so he doubled down and dropped 100K on the 1510 license, downgraded it to work with the potential transmitter site in Quincy, than abandoned that plan to move it to God knows where.... the 1460 site that does not exist !

That sunk cost does not figure in the translators, which are the driving force for this disaster.

I'd love to know what the carrying cost is for all of this, because it must be quite the albatross around the neck of WATD FM's finances assuming that is where the money is coming from.

Even IF Ed Perry gets the AM's and translators up and running, with reasonable transmitter site costs, where does he make enough money on ad sales or any other revenue stream to pay the operating costs..... and recoup the sunk costs.

Ed is a brilliant Engineer, he pulled of the near impossible getting WATD FM on the air ( and I am a big fan as I am a part time Marshfield resident) , I applaud his keeping it live and local, but I am really starting to question his sanity....
 
channel99 said:
.. a 10 KW transmitter uses about the power of a home electric range with the oven and all of the burners on...
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A 10 kw transmitter, with its equipment rack, ventilation, climate control, etc. will use about 15 kw, at commercial rates is going to be around $1,000 a month average for a daytimer. WIth several Critical Hours, it will be even less.

Remember, today even solid state transmitters are not 100% efficient, so it takes about 12 to 13 kw to run the transmitter alone.
 
DavidEduardo said:


A 10 kw transmitter, with its equipment rack, ventilation, climate control, etc. will use about 15 kw, at commercial rates is going to be around $1,000 a month average for a daytimer. WIth several Critical Hours, it will be even less.

Remember, today even solid state transmitters are not 100% efficient, so it takes about 12 to 13 kw to run the transmitter alone.
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Most home ranges draw 12 - 13 KW with everything on - some as much as 22 KW - so that was pretty close:

http://www.wrecc.com/what-uses-watts-in-your-home/

http://manuals.frigidaire.com/prodinfo_pdf/Springfield/316454912.pdf (page 10)
 
channel99 said:
The internet access being down should be fixable with a phone call to the ISP
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Not if it is a Verizon business class circuit. They've offshored most of their front-line support now. I had an ELAN circuit go down last week and had to call someone (who was in the pacific rim) who was examining the status of network circuits in Worcester.

Still aint fixed.

Go figure.
 
I wonder what the point of moving WMEX to Brockton is other than to share a site with 1460. I thought the idea of WMEX was to expand what WATD does to encompass the Quincy/Braintree area. We already see that Brockton can't support the stations they had with 1410 bailing out and 1460 being dark. Can they cover the South Shore with a decent signal from that far?
 
spt87 said:
I wonder what the point of moving WMEX to Brockton is other than to share a site with 1460. I thought the idea of WMEX was to expand what WATD does to encompass the Quincy/Braintree area. We already see that Brockton can't support the stations they had with 1410 bailing out and 1460 being dark. Can they cover the South Shore with a decent signal from that far?
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We don't know whether Ed would have been charged rent on the 1260 Milton/Quincy site, or whether there was some other expense or logistical issues with using that site. I'm guessing that the Brockton site may be his own, so it may be more economical for him.

Reportedly he's still planning for 10kW daytimes for 1510, so that should still cover the South Shore well from Brockton. It won't be as strong in Boston proper or the North Shore as the 1260 site would have been. Also, he still has an FM translator planned to help fill coverage on some of the South Shore.
 
spt87 said:
I thought the idea of WMEX was to expand what WATD does to encompass the Quincy/Braintree area.
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By "what WATD does," do you mean the eclectic mix of musical, news and sports programming WATD is known for, or a station spinning deep-playlist, moldy oldies that some in this forum have predicted/wished for the WMEX format?
 
Where did this idea that 1510 is moving to Brockton come from? I believe the physical transmitter that was broadcasting 1510 was moved to West Bridgewater and retuned to 1460 to keep the 1460 license alive.
 
jlehmann said:
Where did this idea that 1510 is moving to Brockton come from? I believe the physical transmitter that was broadcasting 1510 was moved to West Bridgewater and retuned to 1460 to keep the 1460 license alive.
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Read the bottom entry "Exhibit 1" on this FCC Request for Silent STA, the intended move of 1510 to what says Brockton is confirmed there.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101796187&formid=910&fac_num=12789

It is the current 1460 site, though I don't think it's the old WXBR site, I think it may be a new site Ed is building nearby. I don't know whether it's actually over the Brockton line from W. Bridgewater. The map coordinates, if correct, look like it's on the other side of Route 24 from the old site.
 
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Again, I think you’re reading it wrong. I simply think he needed a transmitter to put on 1460, so he loaded it up and drove it down to the 1460 site and retuned it for 1460.

Right after the part you’re talking about, it says the licenses is working with the landlord to get sufficient power for 1510. That is the 1260 site that’s being talked about there.
 
Looking at the application all I can find is that they're moving the 1kw transmitter back to the WATD-AM site to use for 1460 and that 1510 will return once the 10kw transmitter is fully installed.
 
Yes, it looks like he's working on the power supply for the eventual 10 kW 1510 transmitter at the 1260 site, that would indicate that WMEX will stay there, so the current low power transmitter is being moved to Brockton for use on 1460, but that would make it the WATD (AM) transmitter, no longer the "WMEX transmitter" as it says. The way it's worded can be misunderstood.
 
Thanks for that info.Sometimes there will be a station about to hit the air, an LPFM, translator etc and a page will say "Currently off the air"
That may be the case with WVCA Newbury.

Btw there's an FM translator at 94.1 in Manchester NH which switched from CHR to classic hits, as Rewind.The signal beams south toward Nashua.It isn't repeating an AM though..it's repeating WZID 95.7 HD2. Yes, an FM translator can repeat an HD subchannel.106.1 here was and is relaying 1330 but both for a time were simulcasting WBQT HD2--"Irish 96.9"
 
raccoonradio said:
Thanks for that info.Sometimes there will be a station about to hit the air, an LPFM, translator etc and a page will say "Currently off the air"
That may be the case with WVCA Newbury.
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You can still access the Radio-Locator WMEX (AM) page by its direct link here: https://radio-locator.com/info/WMEX-AM, and it says "Currently off the air". It just doesn't appear as a link in any of the Radio-Locator station search menus, and can't be accessed from their station search on their home page, while it's off the air.
 
channel99 said:
WMEX will be off for a while. Ed Perry has filed for suspension of operations and to go silent temporarily, because of 1) loss of the internet connection which was the program source at the current site, 2) to move the transmitter to the WATD site in Brockton, and 3) to work with the landlord to get enough AC power there for a 10 KW transmitter:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101796187&formid=910&fac_num=12789
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Not surprisingly, the FCC today approved this.
 
Dennis DeNapoli, Facebook:"Here is the latest information on WMEX back on date Now is sometime in May... with a very low power night signal"
 
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