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WMEX-1510 noted with pop mx //WATD-95.9 at 1640 EDT.  Decent signal at north facing Corporation Beach in Dennis.  A bit weaker here at home.  Signal sounds about right for 1kw from the 1260 towers near the SE X-Way in Milton.
 
Marc D
South Dennis
 
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Posted by: Marc DeLorenzo <midcapemarc@xxxxxxx> 
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1510 WMEX signal strength here indicates sub-1kW power.  1300 WJDA, 1 kW, nearby site, is about 10 dB better.  1360 WLYN, 1 kW, farther (but via lower loss path), must be at least 20 dB stronger.  Ditto 1230 WESX, co-located with WLYN.

Paralleling with 95.9 WATD was not a milk run either.  The classical station in RI (WCRI) was kicking the stuffing out of WATD about two-thirds of the time.  In no respect can 95.9 WATD be considered a station adequately covering the Cape & Islands market.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION - South Yarmouth, MA

Text below consists of recent Boston Radio Interest posts about the WMEX operation.

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: WMEX lives (Rob Landry)
2. Re: WMEX lives (Eli Polonsky)
3. Re: WMEX lives (Scott Fybush)
4. RE: WMEX lives (Jim Hall)
5. RE: WMEX lives (Garrett Wollman)
6. Re: WMEX lives (A Joseph Ross)
7. Re: WMEX lives (A Joseph Ross)
8. Re: WMEX lives (Bob Nelson)
9. RE: WMEX lives (Dale H. Cook)
Attached Message
>From     Rob Landry <011010001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To     Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc     Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject     Re: WMEX lives
Date     Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:23:42 -0400 (EDT)

That's strange. The FCC database dosn't show a CP, but only an
application, for the new WMEX site. How are they able to get on the air?


Rob

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Bob Nelson wrote:

> Word from Eli Polonsky that WMEX 1510 made it back on air today, with low
> power testing simulcasting WATD.This just beat the FCC deadline to get on
> or lose the license.
>
> Oldies DJ Jimmy Jay says they'll resume regular broadcasting around Sept 18
> and he will have a late morning show.
>

Attached Message
>From     Eli Polonsky <elipolo881@xxxxxxxxx>
To     boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject     Re: WMEX lives
Date     Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:30:48 -0400
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:12:59 -0400
> From: A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: WMEX lives
>
> Are they still on?? I was in Waltham today, where I would have expected
> a good signal, and got what sounded like a distant station, which didn't
> sound like WATD either.
>

âWMEX 1510 came on with the WATD simulcast âSaturday morning through the
day Sunday. Sometime Sunday evening it sounded like it lost the audio feed
from WATD and there was a blank carrier (with some spurious noise) on 1510
through Sunday night. I didn't check earlier today (Monday) but now as of 3
PM WMEX is simulcasting WATD again.

I would not expect a good, or necessarily even audible, signal in Waltham
from the current WMEX transmitter site. It is no longer transmitting from
the Waltham site that 1510 moved to in the early 1980's. WATD owner Ed
Perry did not include that site (or use of it) in his purchase of WMEX, and
those towers were taken down about a month ago.

Ed has WMEX transmitting from the 1260 WBIX site at the Milton/North Quincy
line (very near where the original 1510 WMEX transmitter was before its
move to Waltham) on a temporary low power transmitter just to get the
station on the air before the FCC would have deleted the license after June
30. The signal is very weak to non-existent due west and northwest of
Boston.

I don't know the current power but it may be just a hundred watts or so. A
10,000 watt daytime signal is planned from that site by this fall but still
down to 100 watts at night (all non-directional).

It is very weak where I live in Somerville. In my travels over the weekend
it was very weak in Cambridge, Allston/Brighton and Brookline, and I
couldn't hear much of it farther west or northwest that that, though it did
put a fair signal southwest, I heard it in Dedham, Westwood, Norwood.

It's spotty in downtown Boston proper, listenable in places. Of course,
it's strong in the southerly Boston neighborhoods including Dorchester,
South Boston, Mattapan, Hyde Park, W. Roxbury, etc... and the closer you
are to the water, the better it is. It's fair at Logan Airport, East Boston
and Charlestown, and can be heard on the lower North Shore such as Revere,
Lynn, etc... I saw someone else post that it came in well down the South
Shore through Braintree but was fading by Weymouth Landing.

EP

Attached Message
>From     Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
To     Rob Landry <011010001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc     Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@xxxxxxxxx>; Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject     Re: WMEX lives
Date     Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:46:51 -0400
STA for 1000 watts daytime only from the 1260 site... granted June 6, on
the air June 29-30. That reset the one-year silent clock.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 4:01 PM Rob Landry <011010001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> That's strange. The FCC database dosn't show a CP, but only an
> application, for the new WMEX site. How are they able to get on the air?
>
>
> Rob
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Bob Nelson wrote:
>
> > Word from Eli Polonsky that WMEX 1510 made it back on air today, with low
> > power testing simulcasting WATD.This just beat the FCC deadline to get on
> > or lose the license.
> >
> > Oldies DJ Jimmy Jay says they'll resume regular broadcasting around Sept
> 18
> > and he will have a late morning show.
> >
>

Attached Message
>From     Jim Hall <aerie.ma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To     Boston Radio Mailing List <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject     RE: WMEX lives
Date     Mon, 2 Jul 2018 20:56:01 -0400
This is probably a dumb question, but since 1510 is using one of the 1260 towers, which are very close to where 1510's towers were before the move to Waltham, could 1510 use additional WBIX towers and develop a pattern similar to what WMEX had in the good ol' days? Even with the 5kW WMEX had from Quincy, it very easily served cities/towns up and down the coast at night, including Boston. My parents used to listen to Jerry Williams and Steve Fredericks in coastal NH and Maine. Inland was another matter of course, but 5kW up and down the coast sounds like a more sustainable proposition than flea power at night covering Quincy and not much else. I think WBIX has 3 not quite inline towers, whereas I think WMEX from Quincy only used two towers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Scott Fybush
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2018 4:47 PM
To: Rob Landry <011010001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: WMEX lives

STA for 1000 watts daytime only from the 1260 site... granted June 6, on the air June 29-30. That reset the one-year silent clock.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 4:01 PM Rob Landry <011010001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> That's strange. The FCC database dosn't show a CP, but only an
> application, for the new WMEX site. How are they able to get on the air?
>
>
> Rob
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Bob Nelson wrote:
>
> > Word from Eli Polonsky that WMEX 1510 made it back on air today,
> > with low power testing simulcasting WATD.This just beat the FCC
> > deadline to get on or lose the license.
> >
> > Oldies DJ Jimmy Jay says they'll resume regular broadcasting around
> > Sept
> 18
> > and he will have a late morning show.
> >
>



Attached Message
>From     Garrett Wollman <wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To     Jim Hall <aerie.ma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc     Boston Radio Mailing List <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject     RE: WMEX lives
Date     Mon, 2 Jul 2018 21:47:58 -0400
<<On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 20:56:01 -0400, "Jim Hall" <aerie.ma@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> This is probably a dumb question, but since 1510 is using one of the
> 1260 towers, which are very close to where 1510's towers were before
> the move to Waltham, could 1510 use additional WBIX towers and
> develop a pattern similar to what WMEX had in the good ol' days?

Plausible, but given the business model of this purchase (basically,
to have a facility that will serve as a parent for a translator and
whose programming will be directed at the translator listenership) it
doesn't necessarily make economic sense. If you're Perry, you want to
get a licenseable facility on the air so it can be a parent to your
translator -- not replicate the "good old days".

> Even with the 5kW WMEX had from Quincy, it very easily served
> cities/towns up and down the coast at night, including Boston. My
> parents used to listen to Jerry Williams and Steve Fredericks in
> coastal NH and Maine. Inland was another matter of course, but 5kW
> up and down the coast sounds like a more sustainable proposition
> than flea power at night covering Quincy and not much else. I think
> WBIX has 3 not quite inline towers, whereas I think WMEX from Quincy
> only used two towers.

The old 5-kW 1510 facility only had to protect one station, WLAC in
Nashville.[1] (Because it was That Old -- WLAC has a big null in the
direction of Boston.) Any new 1510 facility has to protect not only
WLAC but all the other stations left on 1510 (including those dead
Canadian stations), because it's now junior to them.

-GAWollman

[1] The 50-kW 1510 facility *also* protected KGA Spokane, which it
wouldn't have to today, but I'm not sure if it actually had to so then
or it was just a design convenience to get symmetric nulls with modest
backfill out of the old four-tower rhombus array.

Attached Message
>From     A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To     Eli Polonsky <elipolo881@xxxxxxxxx>; boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject     Re: WMEX lives
Date     Mon, 2 Jul 2018 23:17:51 -0400
I guess Ed Perry was smart enough not to want that Waltham facility. 
Does he intend to continue simulcasting WATD or does he have some other
plan for the station?  Or don't we know?

On 7/2/2018 3:30 PM, Eli Polonsky wrote:
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:12:59 -0400
> From: A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> To: boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: WMEX lives
>
> Are they still on?? I was in Waltham today, where I would have
> expected
> a good signal, and got what sounded like a distant station, which
> didn't
> sound like WATD either.
>
> âWMEX 1510 came on with the WATD simulcast âSaturday morning through
> the day Sunday. Sometime Sunday evening it sounded like it lost the
> audio feed from WATD and there was a blank carrier (with some spurious
> noise) on 1510 through Sunday night. I didn't check earlier today
> (Monday) but now as of 3 PM WMEX is simulcasting WATD again.
>
> I would not expect a good, or necessarily even audible, signal in
> Waltham from the current WMEX transmitter site. It is no longer
> transmitting from the Waltham site that 1510 moved to in the early
> 1980's. WATD owner Ed Perry did not include that site (or use of it)
> in his purchase of WMEX, and those towers were taken down about a
> month ago.
>
> Ed has WMEX transmitting from the 1260 WBIX site at the Milton/North
> Quincy line (very near where the original 1510 WMEX transmitter was
> before its move to Waltham) on a temporary low power transmitter just
> to get the station on the air before the FCC would have deleted the
> license after June 30. The signal is very weak to non-existent due
> west and northwest of Boston.
>
> I don't know the current power but it may be just a hundred watts or
> so. A 10,000 watt daytime signal is planned from that site by this
> fall but still down to 100 watts at night (all non-directional).
>
> It is very weak where I live in Somerville. In my travels over the
> weekend it was very weak in Cambridge, Allston/Brighton and Brookline,
> and I couldn't hear much of it farther west or northwest that that,
> though it did put a fair signal southwest, I heard it in Dedham,
> Westwood, Norwood.
>
> It's spotty in downtown Boston proper, listenable in places. Of
> course, it's strong in the southerly Boston neighborhoods including
> Dorchester, South Boston, Mattapan, Hyde Park, W. Roxbury, etc... and
> the closer you are to the water, the better it is. It's fair at Logan
> Airport, East Boston and Charlestown, and can be heard on the lower
> North Shore such as Revere, Lynn, etc... I saw someone else post that
> it came in well down the South Shore through Braintree but was fading
> by Weymouth Landing.
>
> EP
>
>

-- 
A. Joseph Ross, J.D. Â 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 Â Newton, MA 02459
617.367.0468 Â Fax:617.507.7856 Â http://www.attorneyross.com

Attached Message
>From     A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To     boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject     Re: WMEX lives
Date     Mon, 2 Jul 2018 23:21:42 -0400
I used to be able to listen to WMEX in Bedford, with good reception in
the daytime, but night reception was sometimes hard.  A few years later,
when I was in law school, I was driving home one night after dark and
found that, on the car radio, WMEX reception was fine until I turned off
the main road into the neighborhood where we lived.

On 7/2/2018 8:56 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> This is probably a dumb question, but since 1510 is using one of the 1260 towers, which are very close to where 1510's towers were before the move to Waltham, could 1510 use additional WBIX towers and develop a pattern similar to what WMEX had in the good ol' days? Even with the 5kW WMEX had from Quincy, it very easily served cities/towns up and down the coast at night, including Boston. My parents used to listen to Jerry Williams and Steve Fredericks in coastal NH and Maine. Inland was another matter of course, but 5kW up and down the coast sounds like a more sustainable proposition than flea power at night covering Quincy and not much else. I think WBIX has 3 not quite inline towers, whereas I think WMEX from Quincy only used two towers..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Scott Fybush
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2018 4:47 PM
> To: Rob Landry <011010001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: WMEX lives
>
> STA for 1000 watts daytime only from the 1260 site... granted June 6, on the air June 29-30. That reset the one-year silent clock.
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 4:01 PM Rob Landry <011010001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That's strange. The FCC database dosn't show a CP, but only an
>> application, for the new WMEX site. How are they able to get on the air?
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Bob Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> Word from Eli Polonsky that WMEX 1510 made it back on air today,
>>> with low power testing simulcasting WATD.This just beat the FCC
>>> deadline to get on or lose the license.
>>>
>>> Oldies DJ Jimmy Jay says they'll resume regular broadcasting around
>>> Sept
>> 18
>>> and he will have a late morning show.
>>>
>
>

-- 
A. Joseph Ross, J.D. Â 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 Â Newton, MA 02459
617.367.0468 Â Fax:617.507.7856 Â http://www.attorneyross.com

Attached Message
>From     Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@xxxxxxxxx>
To     A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc     Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject     Re: WMEX lives
Date     Tue, 3 Jul 2018 02:29:10 -0400
Perry has said oldies and news and sports with a South Shore focus. DJ
Jimmy James says they plan to return in Sept and he will be on 9 am-1 pm
with oldies. It won't simply repeat WATD and will have an FM
translator.Maybe it can also broadcast on his AM 1460 in Brockton when that
goes on and that too will have an FM translator on same frequency (100.1
IIRC or was it 101.1...)

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 11:19 PM A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess Ed Perry was smart enough not to want that Waltham facility.
> Does he intend to continue simulcasting WATD or does he have some other
> plan for the station? Or don't we know?
>
> On 7/2/2018 3:30 PM, Eli Polonsky wrote:
> >
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:12:59 -0400
> > From: A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > To: boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: WMEX lives
> >
> > Are they still on?? I was in Waltham today, where I would have
> > expected
> > a good signal, and got what sounded like a distant station, which
> > didn't
> > sound like WATD either.
> >
> > âWMEX 1510 came on with the WATD simulcast âSaturday morning through
> > the day Sunday. Sometime Sunday evening it sounded like it lost the
> > audio feed from WATD and there was a blank carrier (with some spurious
> > noise) on 1510 through Sunday night. I didn't check earlier today
> > (Monday) but now as of 3 PM WMEX is simulcasting WATD again.
> >
> > I would not expect a good, or necessarily even audible, signal in
> > Waltham from the current WMEX transmitter site. It is no longer
> > transmitting from the Waltham site that 1510 moved to in the early
> > 1980's. WATD owner Ed Perry did not include that site (or use of it)
> > in his purchase of WMEX, and those towers were taken down about a
> > month ago.
> >
> > Ed has WMEX transmitting from the 1260 WBIX site at the Milton/North
> > Quincy line (very near where the original 1510 WMEX transmitter was
> > before its move to Waltham) on a temporary low power transmitter just
> > to get the station on the air before the FCC would have deleted the
> > license after June 30. The signal is very weak to non-existent due
> > west and northwest of Boston.
> >
> > I don't know the current power but it may be just a hundred watts or
> > so. A 10,000 watt daytime signal is planned from that site by this
> > fall but still down to 100 watts at night (all non-directional).
> >
> > It is very weak where I live in Somerville. In my travels over the
> > weekend it was very weak in Cambridge, Allston/Brighton and Brookline,
> > and I couldn't hear much of it farther west or northwest that that,
> > though it did put a fair signal southwest, I heard it in Dedham,
> > Westwood, Norwood.
> >
> > It's spotty in downtown Boston proper, listenable in places. Of
> > course, it's strong in the southerly Boston neighborhoods including
> > Dorchester, South Boston, Mattapan, Hyde Park, W. Roxbury, etc... and
> > the closer you are to the water, the better it is. It's fair at Logan
> > Airport, East Boston and Charlestown, and can be heard on the lower
> > North Shore such as Revere, Lynn, etc... I saw someone else post that
> > it came in well down the South Shore through Braintree but was fading
> > by Weymouth Landing.
> >
> > EP
> >
> >
>
> --
> A. Joseph Ross, J.D. Â 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 Â Newton, MA 02459
> 617.367.0468 Â Fax:617.507.7856 Â http://www.attorneyross.com
>

Attached Message
>From     Dale H. Cook <radiotest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To     Boston Radio Mailing List <boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject     RE: WMEX lives
Date     Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:53:28 -0400
At 08:56 PM 7/2/2018, Jim Hall wrote:

>... could 1510 use additional WBIX towers and develop a pattern similar to what WMEX had in the good ol' days?

That is not likely, as the bearings of the station(s) protected by WBIX are not likely to be the same as the bearings of the station(s) protected by WMEX. It is almost always the case that, when adding an additional directional station to an existing DA site, at least one additional new tower (and sometimes more) have to be added to the array.

Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html


Attached Message
>From     Eli Polonsky <elipolo881@xxxxxxxxx>
To     boston-radio-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject     Re: WMEX lives
Date     Tue, 3 Jul 2018 04:09:13 -0400
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:17 PM, A Joseph Ross <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess Ed Perry was smart enough not to want that Waltham facility. Does
> he intend to continue simulcasting WATD or does he have some other plan for
> the station? Or don't we know?
>

âThe plan I've seen posted by some people involved, beginning in
mid-September with the upgrade to 10,000 watts daytime (and the signing on
of an FM translator on 101.1 based in Weymouth), is to simulcast the WATD
South Shore Morning News magazine show during weekday morning drive until 9
AM, then break away for a 1960s/1970s Pop/Rock'n'Roll âOldies format,
paying some homage to the Top 40 heyday of the original WMEX (probably with
some unearthed vintage jingles and retro sounding production, etc...) and
also evolving the format with a bit of later music that fits from the '80s
and beyond sprinkled in.

As Ed does with WATD, this music format will be frequently cut in to with
local news updates and community service elements. Longtime New England DJ
on various stations (plus host of his own syndicated oldies show run Sunday
nights on WATD) Jimmy Jay, who hosted a Saturday evening oldies show on the
last incarnation of WMEX, claims to be scheduled for the 9 AM - 1 PM
weekday slot.

Though I don't have any further information, I'd speculate on some evening
public affairs programming more specific to the South Shore (like WATD)
with the nighttime signal downgrade and the FM translator that will be
mainly a South Shore signal, and perhaps some "deeper" oldies specialty
shows on weekends similar to WATD.

Ed is also reportedly planning some separate programming later this year
for a revived 1460 AM in Brockton called WATD (AM), and has an FM
translator applied for that as well, also on 101.1. His two FM translators
will be directionally nulled toward each other to minimize mutual
interference.

EP
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