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wnsh's new cp

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ajhenderson

Seems like they got a new CP for 30kW not that long ago. It also appears the pattern will cover much more of Boston than the letterhead 50kW CP they used to have (they may have well have moved the studios to Portland for that one... or Quebec). Any word? Will this new signal actually be any good? I suppose they could keep the current crappy format, sans Ingraham. The question is, will the new facility ever be built?
 
Right now they're pushing 0 watts, or at least that was the case a couple hours ago when I checked.
I was hearing WPEP instead (heard ID, etc.) and I'm 1.5 miles from the WNSH stick. No idea about the
new CP though.
 
raccoonradio said:
Right now they're pushing 0 watts, or at least that was the case a couple hours ago when I checked.
I was hearing WPEP instead (heard ID, etc.) and I'm 1.5 miles from the WNSH stick.
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Maybe you were directly in the null... ???
 
WPEP has a decent night signal in town, and the town is big enough to make WPEP a viable station. Imaginitive programming on WPEP would make it work nicely.
 
WPEP could also be a valuable property if the casino gets built in next-door Middleborough. Does Mohegan Sun still have that deal with WMOS "The Wolf"?
 
webcastboy said:
Would this new 30kW CP still mean WPEP would have to "go away"?
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Absolutely. The 30 kW is ND; the 50 kW was directional to the north (NOT to the east as many have reported after looking at radio-locator's highly misleading "coverage maps"). As coverage maps, these maps are inaccurate and highly misleading. Moreover, even radio-locator doesn't refer to them as pattern plots, which they most definitely are not. In the case of WNSH, the salt water seriously distorts the pattern--producing what looks like a lobe to the east but is really an a artifact of the fabulous conductivity of the salt water and the negligible conductivity of the rocky land along the Cape Ann shoreline.

Anyhow, unlike the proposed 50-kW operation, the 30-kW signal would not be attenuated to the south, so coverage of the city of Boston would be much improved over what is is today or would be with 50 kW and the proposed DA. However, the 30-kW ND operation would create far worse interference in the Taunton area than would the 50-kW DA operation, so without question 1570 would become unusable in Taunton.

Allegedly, when 1570 goes dark, the WPEP calls will move to 1530 in Middleborough. Before the possibility of a casino in Middleborough came up, Taunton seemed like a much more lucrative location for a radio station than did Middleborough. (Of course, the station would have remained licensed to Middleborough but would have focused its programming on Taunton.) The casino may change 1530's plans to focus on Taunton. Stay tuned.
 
DanStrassberg said:
[As coverage maps, these maps are inaccurate and highly misleading. Moreover, even radio-locator doesn't refer to them as pattern plots, which they most definitely are not. In the case of WNSH, the salt water seriously distorts the pattern--producing what looks like a lobe to the east but is really an a artifact of the fabulous conductivity of the salt water and the negligible conductivity of the rocky land along the Cape Ann shoreline.
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Radio-locator's maps are based on the pattern plots by the FCC, they just also take into account the water, which in the real world does greatly increase AM stations' coverage


DanStrassberg said:
Allegedly, when 1570 goes dark, the WPEP calls will move to 1530 in Middleborough. Before the possibility of a casino in Middleborough came up, Taunton seemed like a much more lucrative location for a radio station than did Middleborough. (Of course, the station would have remained licensed to Middleborough but would have focused its programming on Taunton.) The casino may change 1530's plans to focus on Taunton. Stay tuned.
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I think that was just very much a rumor, with no facts to back it up.
 
Whenever I'm in Quincy I pick up WBZ on 1570. Any ideas why? It doesn't seem to make much sense, but I'd almost think they're running a repeater down there.
 
raccoonradio said:
WVBF is a mighty 2 watts at night...
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WPEP 1570 has been running 227 watts at night. Since the WNSH power increase app. is for daytime only, I don't see what's to prevent WPEP from continuing to do that, at nighttime only. It would beat 2 watts from Middleborough.

They could run promos on 1530 in the daytime instructing listeners in the Taunton area to turn their dials up a few clicks to 1570 at sundown. When WNSH goes down to their 85 watt night power at sunset, WPEP could come on the air and remain on until sunrise the following morning, when they would air instructions for listeners to tune down to 1530 for the morning show.

People who listen to certain evening programs on WPEP would already know that they're there, and if WPEP airs things like local evening school sports games, those could be promoted beforehand as being on 1570.

If WPEP was to do this, it may be the only nighttime-only AM station in the country, as far as I know.
 
FPB said:
Whenever I'm in Quincy I pick up WBZ on 1570. Any ideas why? It doesn't seem to make much sense, but I'd almost think they're running a repeater down there.
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It's because in Quincy you're practically line of sight over direct salt water from their 50,000 watt transmitter in Hull, and their signal is very strong there. Your radio is probably being overloaded by some sort of intermodulation or harmonic (perhaps with one of the other AM stations transmitting from Quincy such as WMKI or WJDA) causing WBZ to appear on 1570.
 
MarcB said:
jlehmann said:
Listening to 1530 right now, it sounds like it's still the newspaper reading service... very strange!
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No disrespect intended, but if you had actually read the article you linked, you would've seen it says in the article, that WVBF only picked up one show that airs 9AM-11AM and one other show that airs once a week.
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Thanks, I missed that. I checked today, and 1530 was still running the TIC Network (I wasn't listening between 9 and 11). 1570 was still on the air, airing foreign language programming, probably Portuguese.
 
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