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WUMB simulcasting on WAVM Maynard started

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Eli Polonsky

I'm guessing this is the case because WUMB is now including 91.7 WAVM, Maynard in their TOH ID.

I'm not getting WAVM here in Somerville. I (faintly) get WMWM from Salem State College on 91.7. I don't know whether WAVM's proposed new 500 watt signal is actually on the air now, or if they've begun the simulcast on their old Class D ~ten watt signal. I'll be driving around the west suburbs during the next few days, I'll see if I can get it there.

The stipulation of the WAVM/WUMB deal was that WUMB is simulcast on WAVM whenever Maynard High School students aren't doing radio. The current schedule for High School programming on WAVM is 2:00 PM - 9:00 PM, on school days only. That gives WUMB morning drive and mid-day weekdays during the school year, all weeknight late evenings and overnights, and full-time on all weekends, holidays, school vacations/breaks, and the entire summer.
 
At least WAVM wasn't totally knocked off...UMass coveted the frequency (and got it as a sharing deal) as did a religious broadcaster, if I remember right.

WMWM is staying on through the Christmas/New Year's break with automation; DJs aren't allowed in campus
ctr from 12/23 till 1/4. However a few shows (Sat night oldies block and poss. Doug Mascott tomorrow
morning) may be done via a remote studio. There will be jazz/holidays music (followed by a gradual easing
of Christmas/Han. tunes after Christmas Day), maybe some novelties, etc. before DJs resume broadcasting.
Can only wonder how far WMWM could go if not for other stations on or near frequency.

I did pick it up faintly once in Pembroke on Rt 3. Jack Smith was filling in for Juke Joint and I heard him
close out his show.

Info on WAVM CP?

http://wavm.org/

>>As part of the new agreement, WAVM would be allowed to operate at five hundred watts while Living Proof would reduce its power and not interfere with the WAVM broadcast area. We will also now broadcast largely to the east rather than in all directions.

They may be still raising $ for it? CP signal, approx, for them via radio-locator

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WAVM&service=FM&status=C&hours=U
 
raccoonradio said:
At least WAVM wasn't totally knocked off...UMass coveted the frequency (and got it as a sharing deal) as did a religious broadcaster, if I remember right.
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The proposed religious broadcaster "Living Proof" is farther northwest out in Lunenburg. They agreed to a directional pattern nulled to the east-southeast to minimize interference to the new WAVM 500 watt application, which is directional away from them toward the east.

There was also another religious application for Lexington, which I understand was completely eliminated by the new WAVM application. If the Lexington one had been granted, it would have severely messed up WUMB's Boston signal with first-adjacent interference in the northwest suburbs where, despite being just outside of its protected coverage contour, much of WUMB's listenership is.

WUMB previously had another application for a station in adjacent Stow, which would have completely knocked WAVM off the air if it had ever been granted. Dropping their competing Stow application and turning around and partnering with Maynard High School was the only way that WUMB/WAVM could present a strong enough application with enough support to stave off the religious applicants, resulting in the elimination of the one in Lexington and a directional signal away from them from Lunenburg.

raccoonradio said:
Can only wonder how far WMWM could go if not for other stations on or near frequency.

I did pick it up faintly once in Pembroke on Rt 3. Jack Smith was filling in for Juke Joint and I heard him
close out his show.
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I've heard WMWM in many unexpected areas on good selective digital car tuners. There are many spots in Newton and other west suburbs where I've heard it. Even once out on Route 135 out by Wellesley College (when their WZLY 91.5 was off the air), which is almost out to Natick. I also heard it faintly on the high, open road on Route 95 south down around Sharon/Foxborough back in the '90s.
 
WUML on 91.5 is the dominant signal that stops a lot of stuff from being heard on 91.3 and 91.7 in a lot of southern NH/northern MA. It also seems to me that at times WUML is over-modulated and splattering all over the place.
 
I didn't hear a trace of WAVM//WUMB in my travels in the Boston west suburbs over the past couple of days, which took me as far west as East Natick just over the Weston line. I'd think that if WAVM was operating at 500 watts directional east from Maynard that I'd at least hear it faintly by there, so I'm assuming that WUMB must have started simulcasting on the old Class D (~10w) WAVM signal for now.
 
WUML was off the air yesterday (Fri 1/1) and at least early today. I wonder how long that will last?
 
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