Posted by Steve Green on August 27, 2009 at 10:44:13:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Receiving 105.9 in Suffolk County posted by Bobby Middlebrooks on August 27, 2009 at 10:22:06:
How long has WHBI-WCAA been broadcasting from their current stick? Have they always been from it or was there one closer to Newark?
Afai recall, WBLI originally broadcast from one of the two WSUF towers in Medford -- not much height on a 1580 stick -- before moving to their own in Farmingville. Maybe the early-mid Seventies came that tower move? They may have upped their power at the same time.
Where was WCAA's tower at the time of WBLI's move?
That Nassau-Suffolk border always has been a veritable wall regardless of power uppages and position-jockeying and tower re-locations. As you said, Bobby, there can't be that many average listeners along that DMZ who wanted to hear WCAA in the first place, and perhaps not detectably too many more who want WBLI. Classical listeners into fidelity and orchestration along that reception membrane (who are willing to put up with sideband slop) have to number even fewer.