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RadioDoogie · Oct 17, 2013

What is the set of towers I always see going west on I-20 before approaching downtown close to Moreland and I-20?

max100 · Oct 18, 2013

If they are right on the interstate I think they are AM 860 and 1100?

RoddyFreeman · Oct 18, 2013

You are correct that 860 and 1100 diplex from a site right on I-20 just west of Flat Shoals Rd. But I think he's referring to the 3 high towers just west of Moreland. The one that sits by itself is WXIA-TV. The tall one with the black antenna near the top was the original Channel 30/WPBA-TV tower until the digital conversion. It has housed and still does house the antennas of WSB-FM, WVEE-FM and WSTR-FM (the black fixture) and, at the very top, WABE-FM. The shorter tower next to it is WPBA-TV.

RadioDoogie · Oct 18, 2013

Thanks guys! I frequent the Starlite Six Drive In and Zoo Atlanta quite often and always see it when I turn onto Moreland Avenue/Hill Street exits. I can see the Fish Stick and WPLO from my backyard.

AMFMRadFan · Oct 19, 2013

RoddyFreeman said:
You are correct that 860 and 1100 diplex from a site right on I-20 just west of Flat Shoals Rd. But I think he's referring to the 3 high towers just west of Moreland. The one that sits by itself is WXIA-TV. The tall one with the black antenna near the top was the original Channel 30/WPBA-TV tower until the digital conversion. It has housed and still does house the antennas of WSB-FM, WVEE-FM and WSTR-FM (the black fixture) and, at the very top, WABE-FM. The shorter tower next to it is WPBA-TV.

RadioDoogie said:
Thanks guys! I frequent the Starlite Six Drive In and Zoo Atlanta quite often and always see it when I turn onto Moreland Avenue/Hill Street exits. I can see the Fish Stick and WPLO from my backyard.

RoddyFreeman · Oct 19, 2013

RoddyFreeman said:
You are correct that 860 and 1100 diplex from a site right on I-20 just west of Flat Shoals Rd. But I think he's referring to the 3 high towers just west of Moreland. The one that sits by itself is WXIA-TV. The tall one with the black antenna near the top was the original Channel 30/WPBA-TV tower until the digital conversion. It has housed and still does house the antennas of WSB-FM, WVEE-FM and WSTR-FM (the black fixture) and, at the very top, WABE-FM. The shorter tower next to it is WPBA-TV.

That should be just east (and not west) of Moreland Ave.

AMFMRadFan · Oct 22, 2013

AMFMRadFan said:
Actually, the towers west of Moreland Ave. consist of a smaill cell site tower and the big one I assume is also a cell site tower. I say this because the WXIA-TV, WPBA-TV, WABE-FM, WSB-FM, WVEE-FM, & WSTR-FM transmitters are all located just south of the intersection at DeKalb Ave. & Clifton Rd.

WXIA-TV https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.756639,-84.331861&q=loc:33.756639,-84.331861&hl=en&t=m&z=18
WPBA-TV https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.759056,-84.334917&q=loc:33.759056,-84.334917&hl=en&t=m&z=18
WABE-FM https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.758889,-84.335278&q=loc:33.758889,-84.335278&hl=en&t=m&z=15
WSB-FM https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=33.759167,+-84.334722+(WSB-FM)&om=1
WVEE-FM https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.759,-84.335&q=loc:33.759,-84.335&hl=en&t=m&z=15
WSTR-FM https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.7593,-84.3346&q=loc:33.7593,-84.3346&hl=en&t=m&z=15

As for WFSH-FM The FISH, its transmitter is still in Loganville on the same tower All News 106.7 WYAY-FM is on.

https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=33.867222,+-83.828888+(WFSH-FM)&om=1
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=33.867222,+-83.828888+(WYAY-FM)&om=1

As for WPLO (which is licensed in Grayson), its transmitter is located just east of downtown Lawrenceville.

https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=33.953056,+-83.970833+(WPLO-AM)&om=1

Anyway, that is all.

There's one correction I would like to make. The big tower is a combination of both a cell site tower and a TV transmitter. The TV transmitter transmits the signal of a LPTV station. The station being WYGA-LD 16. It's an affiliate to a Mexican-based Spanish-language television Network known as Mexicanal. More information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYGA-LD, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicanal, and at http://www.mexicanal.com/. As for the smaller tower, it's considered to be a second cell site tower in addition to the big combined cell site/TV tower. That is all.

RoddyFreeman · Oct 22, 2013

AMFMRadFan said:
There's one correction I would like to make. The big tower is a combination of both a cell site tower and a TV transmitter. The TV transmitter transmits the signal of a LPTV station. The station being WYGA-LD 16. It's an affiliate to a Mexican-based Spanish-language television Network known as Mexicanal. More information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYGA-LD, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicanal, and at http://www.mexicanal.com/. As for the smaller tower, it's considered to be a second cell site tower in addition to the big combined cell site/TV tower. That is all.

You appear to be talking about the towers on I-20 just east of downtown. That's farther west than the ones the poster asked about. The tall one there is the American Tower tower, and when it first went up, it was used by WUPA-TV (CW69). Since WUPA moved to Richland, that tower has held a couple of backup antennas for Clear Channel and 94.5. I believe those 2 towers are on city property, and the small one is used by the city.