Where would be the best place on the dial to place a powerful FM on in the Myrtle Beach market? As Myrtle Beach market seems to lack powerful signals besides 92.1, 97.7 ,104.1, 107.9
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If Myrtle Beach Got A Stronger Signal
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It would be near-impossible to add another 100KW stick in the Myrtle Beach area. The projected contour path on any "vacant frequency" would easily impede upon another station. For example, a 100KW signal on 93.9 would likely interfere with the distant or fringe contour path from WKSL - Cary, NC and WSCZ - Winnsboro. Sure, the signal could be nulled in any direction, but it would be an exercise in futility. The same could be said, for example, for 101.5 with WRAL - Raleigh's fringe coverage area as far south as Tabor City. Why have a big stick if you can't use it?
Yep. Myrtle Beach being between two markets with signals established for 50-60 years (Charleston and Wilmington) greatly hampered the growth of good FM signals. 101.5 also has the first-adjacent of 101.7 in Charleston which blasts in on a good radio almost to Myrtle Beach.
101.7 was already there and I thought it was 100,000 watts. Someone told me no.charlestondxman said:
Noticed that the 98.5 signal in Myrtle Beach, Florence, and Columbia are owned by Cumulus. Could that signal get powerful depending on what 98.5 signal Cumulus picked to make stronger?
Found a good video off you tube of a band scan for Myrtle Beach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYoQpZMk3I
Great bandscan. Shows you how many signals come through into Myrtle Beach at night. Must have been some skip because 105.5 and 98 Rock were coming in.
myb will need a class c when ocean life get diaries.
The answer to that question would be no, due the following reasons:
WLXC/Lexington can't increase power at its current site due to 98.3 WHHD/Clearwater (Augusta, GA), 98.3 WLJI/Summerton, and 98.7 WLCZ/Lincolnton, GA being on first adjacent channels. They may be able to move their tower closer to Columbia, but may have to drop their power down from 6kW in the process to avoid interference with WLJI, as well as their sister co-channel WBZF/Hartsville. WBZF is in a similar situation, since WLJI is on a first adjacent and can't move their tower closer to Florence due to spacing issues and interference with WDAI/Pawley Island.
Robyn
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The original WKZQ was 3kW when it signed on. Over time, it increased its power until it became a C1 in the early 90s. That station went to Hanahan several years ago during the great signal swap, still as a C1 under the WAVF call-sign.
Robyn
With the new tower site, that's actually a big signal decrease.
I could pick up Chuck FM in Marion.
It's actually WOMG that can't do this. WLXC is on 103.1.
My bad on that! That's what happens when you leave the market and forget things that had happened recently, like the 2008 WOMG-WLXC call letter/format swap.
Robyn
Robyn
And that led to a complicated series of events for me on Wikipedia. It seems the articles on those two stations now cover the frequency, not the call letters, though for WOMG there were several call letter changes over the years. I was told to do it the other way, but I found myself in a situation a few years ago where keeping the history with the frequency for two stations was the only option, since yet another station moved to a frequency that had gone through a swap. I ended up finding a second swap where someone had moved the history around so it went with the frequency.
I just did the proper documentation a year after the fact and let it go.
I just did the proper documentation a year after the fact and let it go.
On documenting a station's history, I'd go by the FCC's facility ID number since it would list the call letter changes, as well as technical information changes that was made at the facility over the years. Some of the information on the FCC's site is incomplete or inaccurate as some of the older data is missing, so it's best to check a second source (older editions of "Broadcasting And Cable Yearbook" is one).
If it was up to me, I would had kept the older historic info on WLXC on Magic 98.5's and WOMG on Kiss 103.1's current pages since their original facility numbers were not swapped around when the stations performed the call letter/format swap back on April 1st, 2008 and add hyperlinks to both pages so that one can review the previous histories of both facilities at their old frequencies.
But, this is Wikipedia we're talking about.....
Robyn
If it was up to me, I would had kept the older historic info on WLXC on Magic 98.5's and WOMG on Kiss 103.1's current pages since their original facility numbers were not swapped around when the stations performed the call letter/format swap back on April 1st, 2008 and add hyperlinks to both pages so that one can review the previous histories of both facilities at their old frequencies.
But, this is Wikipedia we're talking about.....
Robyn
That is how it is now. I don't like it because 99 percent of the hisoric information on each station is not in the obvious place.
Somewhere I saw a link to a person in Myrtle Beach seeing what radio stations could be picked up. 93.5 was missing (no surprise) but so were 93.7 and 93.9. I had read here those two stations were off the air, but they are still streaming online. 103.1 was missing too.
I was thinking about going to the beach this week. There were reasons I didn't go. Now I think it will be next week, though the weather will be an important factor. It turns out the weather was fine this week.
So if I'm missing from here next week, I'll have experiences to post here the next week. I guess I'll know the truth about WJXY and Sunny by then.
So if I'm missing from here next week, I'll have experiences to post here the next week. I guess I'll know the truth about WJXY and Sunny by then.
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