Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Re: WTIC Off Again

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One more thought on this - if you're interested in pictures of the WTIC 
site, there are lots (and lots and lots) of them here:

http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-050930.html
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-051007.html
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2005-06/conn/
http://www.necrat.com/wtic_proam.html

s

Scott Fybush wrote:
> Patrick Martin wrote:
>> Is WTIC IBOC? If not, they might be installing it. KEX/KPOJ were off
>> night after night for weeks. Now we know why!
> 
> Because of WTIC's unusual setup, they shouldn't ever have to sign off to 
> make transmitter changes.
> 
> At the WTIC transmitter site in Avon, there are three transmitters - a 
> Harris DX50 and a Continental 317C, which are both 50 kW units, feeding 
> the main antenna system - and a Harris Gates Five (5 kW), which feeds a 
> completely separate ND antenna (actually the tower of former sister 
> station WFSB-TV). If it were simply a matter of having to take the 
> Harris offline to install an IBOC exciter, WTIC could easily keep 
> running on the Continental, and if it were a matter of minor antenna 
> system adjustments, WTIC could switch to the Gates Five and the aux 
> antenna and take the main transmitter and antenna system completely 
> offline.
> 
> It's more likely that they were taking field strength measurements, 
> which would explain the station coming on and off the air, sometimes 
> with different field strengths (possibly ND).
> 
> There's a third possibility as well, but until I hear back from WTIC's 
> CE, I'm not going to shoot my mouth off about it.
> 
> s
> 
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