WPKQ and WKNE

[wcozBoston]

How did WPKQ (née WZPK, née WMOU) receive permission from the FCC to move their transmitter to Mt. Washington with WKNE on the same frequency roughly 100 miles away? WMOU started in 1952 and operated from north of the White Mountains in Berlin, N.H. while WKNE came on in 1964 in Keene, N.H, both of 103.7 MHz. Following WMOU's move to Mt. Washington, much of WKNE's signal was impacted by WMOU's, ever try driving from from Nashua north up the Everett Turnpike, Route 89 and Route 91 to Fairlee, VT, where both are fighting one another largely the entire distance even with WMOU's directional antenna. Around eastern flanks of Mount Monadnock, WMOU comes over WKNE. A person that worked at WKNE one night told me their transmitter went off the air and WMOU (WZPK at the time) came in on their monitors. Did WKNE attempt to keep the move from happening? Has their ever been an effort to move WKNE possibly to another frequency? Was WMOU's original charter to operate from Mt. Washington but just never did until the 1980s?

 

[KML0224]

I always wondered about WKNE-FM! It's spotty at times when 15 miles west, walking along US Route 5 in Brattleboro, VT. I once had a portable FM HD radio with me once. I got enough signal to get their HD to come on.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

WPKQ is using a directional antenna with a null toward WKNE.

 

[Oldie919]

When I worked at WKNE back in 1971 the AM was WKNE (1290) and the FM was WNBX-FM (103.7)....
The AM ran a Gates BC-5P with a 2 stick directional antenna....the FM ran a Gates FM20H3 (16 kw output into a 4-bay antenna -- 42 kw ERP).
The AM transmitter and studios were on Stanhope Avenue in Keene....the FM transmitter was on Carpenter Hill in Walpole, north of the city.....