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REV 935 - Am I Crazy?

johntherogger

johntherogger

I feel like I'm losing my mind....but didn't Revolution have 2 translators on 93.5, one in Miami on Y100's HD2 and another one they traded iHeart 104.7 for?
Why does radio locator only list the 1 93.5 translator now, did they get rid of the other one and boost the existing one? Or have I been wrong all along? I feel crazy but I swear they had 2 93.5 translators in SFL.
 
Last I heard Revolution 93.5FM was when they still have their translator in Belle Glade, which I could pick up when I got to SR29 from SR27 on my drive to & from SWFL. Not sure if that changed the past few months. Last trip was in October.
I just checked Radio-Locator, & it shows they now have a 50K watt signal in Key West (WZFL?). If this is true, & they got rid of their signal in Belle Glade, then I don't have much to listen to on my drive to & from SWFL anymore.
 
DJ Mo said:
Last I heard Revolution 93.5FM was when they still have their translator in Belle Glade, which I could pick up when I got to SR29 from SR27 on my drive to & from SWFL. Not sure if that changed the past few months. Last trip was in October.
I just checked Radio-Locator, & it shows they now have a 50K watt signal in Key West (WZFL?). If this is true, & they got rid of their signal in Belle Glade, then I don't have much to listen to on my drive to & from SWFL anymore.
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They still have the Belle Glade signal. But it is full license, not a translater. So you will still have Revolution 93.5 to listen to on your travels!
 
They have RDS on the signals and at least with the two full power signals, you know which signal youre hearing by what call letters show up on RDS.

I've had both WZFL and WBGF when i lived in PA and both times, only one set of call letters showed on RDS
 
W228BV used to be at the County Line site. W228BY is in downtown Miami. They got rid of W228BV because it was causing more interference than it was helping to expand the reach of Revolution 93.5. It used to be possible to hear all four signals in some places.
 
W228BY has an OK signal in Oakland Park. It is fine in the car, but difficult on an inside radio. Revolution radio on WMIA-hd2 comes in very well inside.
 
CentralFL said:
W228BY has an OK signal in Oakland Park. It is fine in the car, but difficult on an inside radio. Revolution radio on WMIA-hd2 comes in very well inside.
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You’re most likely hearing WBGF in Oakland Park. W228BY doesn’t come in that far.
 
NickD said:
You’re most likely hearing WBGF in Oakland Park. W228BY doesn’t come in that far.
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I'm pretty sure it actually is W228BY. You lose WBGF heading in south in Palm Beach County. 93.5 is solid in the car driving north from Miami into the Fort Lauderdale area.
 
I drove down to Oakland Park (just north of Fort Lauderdale) from the Orlando area today. The Revolution 93.5 this area is definitely the translator out of Miami as opposed to WBGF Belle Glade. The RDS display is different (although neither has the actual call letters indicated). 93.5 is definitely stronger in the Fort Lauderdale than the the Belle Glade signal is in the West Palm area.

Interestingly Revolution does mention their hd2 signal fairly regularly in the liners. The hd-2 recently moved from WHYI 100.7 hd-2 to WMIA 93.9 hd-2.
 
Same here, I had lots of trouble hearing 93.5 in parts of Boynton Beach, and only near Wellington / Royal Palm Beach did it come in ok in that area. 93.5 was also solid near the FLL airport.

I had extra trouble getting 93.5 in WPB
because of the translator on 93.3 (W227CX)
 
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KyleAndMelissa22 said:
Same here, I had lots of trouble hearing 93.5 in parts of Boynton Beach, and only near Wellington / Royal Palm Beach did it come in ok in that area. 93.5 was also solid near the FLL airport.

I had extra trouble getting 93.5 in WPB
because of the translator on 93.3 (W227CX)
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In Palm Beach County, in general, the 93.5 signal is decent only west of 441. It’s OK at the mall in Wellington or in Royal Palm. And it’s great at Lion Country Safari. But that’s not where the population center of Palm Beach County is.
 
Other than WGYL in Vero Beach, is there anything from keeping WBGF from moving east a few miles?

They can downgrade to a class A signal near Wellington FL with a directional null NE towards Stuart/Port St Lucie and signal would improve very well over much of Palm Beach County.
Perhaps from the same tower as WRMF or WRMB or 107.9 WEAT and still be legal and do quite well.

Or even better 640 AM's site (WMEN) is closer to Belle Glade and right near Wellington / Lion County Safari, surely they can move there with little or no issues.

2nd Adjacents 93.1 and 93.9 wouldn't be much of a factor here and 93.3's translator in North Palm Beach would need to move or decrease their power.
 
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KyleAndMelissa22 said:
Other than WGYL in Vero Beach, is there anything from keeping WBGF from moving east a few miles?

They can downgrade to a class A signal near Wellington FL with a directional null NE towards Stuart/Port St Lucie and signal would improve very well over much of Palm Beach County.
Perhaps from the same tower as WRMF or WRMB or 107.9 WEAT and still be legal and do quite well.

Or even better 640 AM's site (WMEN) is closer to Belle Glade and right near Wellington / Lion County Safari, surely they can move there with little or no issues.

2nd Adjacents 93.1 and 93.9 wouldn't be much of a factor here and 93.3's translator in North Palm Beach would need to move or decrease their power.
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It's extraordinarily rare for a translator to be 1st adjacent to a city-grade signal. I'm doubtful that would work. There's also a Country outlet on 93.7 in Fort Myers, but that is farther away than the WGYL.
 
ScottBurns said:
It's extraordinarily rare for a translator to be 1st adjacent to a city-grade signal. I'm doubtful that would work. There's also a Country outlet on 93.7 in Fort Myers, but that is farther away than the WGYL.
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The worst example I've seen of 2 adjacent channels / translators in use is was in Anniston and Oxford Alabama, 95.1 (W236CQ - for WDNG-AM - 230 watts) covering the same area as 95.3 WHMA (400 watts) and both towers being only a mile apart from each other. Surprisingly they didn't interfere with each other, last time I was in that area and checked this out.

Even tho 95.1 W236CQ has less power, about half, its non-directional so it reaches much further to the SE than 95.3 WHMA. Both stations co-exist quite well from what I saw.
 
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