[BC] Radio station ignoring rules

[Rich Wood]

------ At 03:31 PM 7/6/2009, Sid Schweiger wrote: -------

>Still at 5 kW, DA-2, two towers.  No CP's showing up in the AM Query 
>section of the FCC's web site.  Daytime pattern has a major lobe to 
>the north, facing east of Nashua.  Major lobe nighttime is to the 
>southeast, grazing Boston's northern suburbs.

If I recall correctly WKOX got a power increase with a new pattern 
that shot right into Boston and all the ships at sea. When I worked 
there the AM was 1Kw days at 1190. Now 1200 at 50Kw. Better luck than 
the FM when we went from 15 to 50Kw. We put up a 400 or 500 ft. tower 
with 12 bays and would warn each other not to bump our heads on the 
bottom bay. I'm told the tower fell down. I notice the COL is Newton, 
not Framingham.

I would assume that 50Kw for WCAP would further tighten their pattern 
to completely avoid Boston. We all know that Boston is very 
interested in the Lowell local programming (wink, wink). Is this even 
worth the electricity it'll waste?

Rich