[BC] Negativity

[Sid Schweiger]

>>I did do my homework and I do know what I am saying. Do you see the 
tree growing at the base of a tower at Clear Channel's WKOX? 
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/miscellany/100-01124-med.html I wonder 
it this was included in their pattern calculations. Here is another 
view of the all too typical Clear Channel transmitter site. 
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/miscellany/100-01122-med.html Just 
like I said, just satellite dishes and weeds. Note that tree is 
between the towers!<<

I was one of the engineers that built the WKOX site, and two utterly
deceptive photos don't prove a damn thing.  The first was taken with an
extremely long lens (the photographer had to have used a tripod,
otherwise zooming in at that distance would have blurred the photo); in
reality that tree is nowhere near the fence or the tower base.  The
second photo shows some trees and shrubs, but again, they're nowhere
near the tower bases.  (And as for the boom-box trailer that shows in
the second photo, that was not originally WJLT's, as another photo in
the series claims.  It was originally purchased and outfitted for WKOX
and the old WVBF.  I know.  I and another engineer were working there
when it was purchased, and we installed all the equipment in it.)

Finally:  Before you come into a publicly accessible forum and accuse an
entire company of shoddy engineering practices, you need to show us some
proof.  Two photos of one site doesn't cut it.  I know a few CC
engineers, and have seen their transmitter sites.  Those sites do not
fit the description of "dishes and weeds," not by a long shot.  As far
as I'm concerned, this is yet another unwarranted slam against CC, right
up there with the Minot EAS story and the Dixie Chicks boycott.  Prove
me wrong.



Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom New England
WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WKAF
WMKK - WRKO - WVEI AM/FM
20 Guest St / 3d Floor
Boston MA  02135-2040
Phone: 617-779-5369
Fax: 617-779-5379
E-Mail: sid at wrko.com