The FCC Applications list includes a License To Cover for WUMB-FM 91.9 in Boston to operate from a new tower site. I realize they reduced ERP while increasing height above average terrain and moving a couple of miles inland, but I haven't seen any change in the signal, which was minimal before.
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WUMB-FM 91.9 Boston License To Cover
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This was more of a signal preservation move than a signal improvement move. WUMB's longtime tower site atop the stone water tower in Quincy wasn't going to be available much longer due to a renovation there and the end of the lease, and the frequency is congested enough that there really wasn't any room for significant expansion. Just maintaining the status quo was triumph enough. (And even that required WUMB to make some minor adjustments to its co-channel signals in Worcester and Falmouth to allow for the slight move of the Boston/Quincy signal.)
As you'll see in tomorrow's NERW, the new bay is in place and operating from the Industrial Communications tower and the old bays are gone from the water tower - so yes, the signal you're hearing is the new one. If there's no difference noted at your distance, it means everything's working just as designed.
>>the signal you're hearing is the new one
On Sat night from my home receiver here in Beverly I went to try out the new Holly Harris blues show on WUMB and found that I couldn't quite pick it up due to my own WMWM, 91.7. In the past and still now, WUMB 91.9 (and the 91.7 in Amesbury) has posed
problems for WMWM in some areas...and it didn't help that for some time WMWM was maybe putting out only 66 per cent of
our 130 watts due to an old transmitter, etc. On Sep. 11 we finally re-installed another transmitter that had been repaired and I
noted the signal improvement (really, there were some areas of Beverly, one town away from Salem, that had trouble
picking up WMWM before) immediately.
So...maybe WMWM's more powerful signal vs. WUMB had a second factor--the relocation of the WUMB tower. Yes more height (with lower power) but at a different location. The maps on radio-locator showed it a bit further to the west or southwest. That may have
helped WMWM trump 'UMB here in downtown Beverly (I wound up hearing part of Holly's show online). It's still true though that if you head north from Beverly, you soon wind up picking up WNEF Newburyport (stick in Amesbury) but WMWM is now more solid. Again,
better transmitter--and a WUMB move...
original WUMB
http://radio-locator.com/pats/WUMB_FM_LU.gif
new ("CP" on the page), now running
http://radio-locator.com/pats/WUMB_FM_CU.gif
Going back and forth between the two, it seems the TL of UMB is a bit to the southwest comp. to the old one.
I've been told WUMB has moved "29.65kM away to 31.38kM" away from WMWM (Mike F. on
facebook, thank you). Not that much of a distance admittedly. About 1.1 MILES
On Sat night from my home receiver here in Beverly I went to try out the new Holly Harris blues show on WUMB and found that I couldn't quite pick it up due to my own WMWM, 91.7. In the past and still now, WUMB 91.9 (and the 91.7 in Amesbury) has posed
problems for WMWM in some areas...and it didn't help that for some time WMWM was maybe putting out only 66 per cent of
our 130 watts due to an old transmitter, etc. On Sep. 11 we finally re-installed another transmitter that had been repaired and I
noted the signal improvement (really, there were some areas of Beverly, one town away from Salem, that had trouble
picking up WMWM before) immediately.
So...maybe WMWM's more powerful signal vs. WUMB had a second factor--the relocation of the WUMB tower. Yes more height (with lower power) but at a different location. The maps on radio-locator showed it a bit further to the west or southwest. That may have
helped WMWM trump 'UMB here in downtown Beverly (I wound up hearing part of Holly's show online). It's still true though that if you head north from Beverly, you soon wind up picking up WNEF Newburyport (stick in Amesbury) but WMWM is now more solid. Again,
better transmitter--and a WUMB move...
original WUMB
http://radio-locator.com/pats/WUMB_FM_LU.gif
new ("CP" on the page), now running
http://radio-locator.com/pats/WUMB_FM_CU.gif
Going back and forth between the two, it seems the TL of UMB is a bit to the southwest comp. to the old one.
I've been told WUMB has moved "29.65kM away to 31.38kM" away from WMWM (Mike F. on
facebook, thank you). Not that much of a distance admittedly. About 1.1 MILES
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There is a very slight improvement in WUMB's reception where I live in Somerville. It's not quite as difficult to get it to kick into HD as it was before.
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