WROL-AM At Reduced Power

[Laurence Glavin]

This is slightly weird...right now (Thursday 4/5 at 1:00 pm), and for a couple of days, WROL-AM 950 COL Boston, transmitter location Route 107 in Saugus, has been operating all day long with nighttime power. This can happen when a station's main transmitter goes pffft and they have a reduced-power nighttime authority...the auxliary transmitter, if it can't power down and up would presumably run at the highest nightime power, which WROL appears to be doing at present. Isn't it ironic (cue song) that this would happen at WROL, which it has been noted is rather casual about powering down at local sunset in the past. (I've received at late at night in Pittsfield , Mass on one occasion). It doesn't appear to be a trait of Salem Communications...its WTTT-AM 1150 operates according to specifications. Maybe the WLYN GM, if he has a signal strength meter, can check to see what WROL's daytime signal in the City of Sin just two or three miles away! Is it hundred or even more than a thousand millivolts, or what you'd expect from a 90-watt wonder.

 

[Neggy]

WLYN has it's studios in Woburn, and very rarely does anyone from MRBI wander onto the transmitter site.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

If WROL was operating with more than its licensed power, then we would
definitely be concerned...

 

[Neggy]

They are the spansh language flagship for the red sox so I thik they have some incentive to get to full power.

 

[flatcar]

WROL only carries the night games in spanish. They are currently doing transmitter maintentance.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

WROL only carries the night games in spanish. They are currently doing transmitter maintentance.

WROL hardly ever shows up in the ratings, but it has a following on weekends with the Irish Hit Parade and programming for religious whackos. So it HAS to be at full power on weekends, and voila, as of now it IS generating its 5K signal.