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Radio El Gallo in North Myrtle Beach

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Patrick 29582

The former soft sounds form the 80s on 900 AM is now WNMB Radio El Gallo, Spanish music. The translators on 102.3 and 103.5 have been active since the station's inception but the parent 900 AM has been off the air for several years pending equipment. Just within the last weeks a faint and unlistenable 'temporary' signal transmitted with five or ten watts from a long wire antenna (per FCC) was heard. I am about five miles from the site.


Equipment is being installed according to the latest extension files by Gorilla Bcstng. Will be a shock but nice to have another AM if nothing else for old times sake.
 
Patrick 29582 said:
The former soft sounds form the 80s on 900 AM is now WNMB Radio El Gallo, Spanish music. The translators on 102.3 and 103.5 have been active since the station's inception but the parent 900 AM has been off the air for several years pending equipment. Just within the last weeks a faint and unlistenable 'temporary' signal transmitted with five or ten watts from a long wire antenna (per FCC) was heard. I am about five miles from the site.


Equipment is being installed according to the latest extension files by Gorilla Bcstng. Will be a shock but nice to have another AM if nothing else for old times sake.
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Have they gotten in trouble with the FCC for running the translators without the parent signal being on the air? If you say yes, I’ll fall off my chair…
 
It's so hard to find documents but I did reach out to the station on their social media and ask about the AM signal, feigning luddism. Soon soon hopefully they said. I'm all fairness when they bought the station the previous owners also had 900 khz quiet. FCC is willing to work with them as they get the equipment, there is a paper trail.

Long wire antenna, good gracious..
 
What soft sounds from the 80s? WEZV comes closer to that description but it's on FM. I'm not aware of 900 AM ever playing anything like that. Last I heard it was classic rock. And when 102.3 stopped playing classical music I came to this site and was told it was now a translator for 900 AM.
 
vchimpanzee said:
102.3 is now WMIR. Wikipedia still had the old logo with that frequency but I checked the web site and added the current logo without that frequency.
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im sure lots of people are clamoring for a logo of an also ran am and translator
 
102.3 is El Gallo, but not sure about the actual calls. They are branding as 102.3 Radio El Gallo locally. And the flea powered 900 is still there. Truly my estimate from where I am to the xmtr is maybe ten watts.
 
Patrick 29582 said:
102.3 is El Gallo, but not sure about the actual calls. They are branding as 102.3 Radio El Gallo locally. And the flea powered 900 is still there. Truly my estimate from where I am to the xmtr is maybe ten watts.
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I plan to go to Myrtle Beach next week. If the weather forecast stays like it is now or gets better (I actually hope it will get better than it is right now, but if I wait it might get worse). If I can remember to listen I will.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I plan to go to Myrtle Beach next week. If the weather forecast stays like it is now or gets better (I actually hope it will get better than it is right now, but if I wait it might get worse).
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Let's try harder to stay on a radio topic.

vchimpanzee said:
If I can remember to listen I will.
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And that is what this site is about.
 
El Gallo is WNMB 900, Myrtle Beach on FM translator 103.7, W279EH in Conway. W272EV, 102.3, is currently assigned to WMIR (a different AM) but is owned by the company El Gallo (Gorilla Broadcasting) bought 900 from, so maybe there is a plan to swap translators. It would make sense as 102.3 has a better signal that covers MB.
 
I didn't check to see if I would hear anything when I went to Dunes Golf Course. That's as far north as I ever go any more. However, I heard nothing when I checked in Conway, where I remember being able to hear WNMB during the Bill Norman era.

I'll tell you what I did pick up. Switching from one FM to another in the car sometimes means ending up on AM. I had switched the AM to 105.5 Hank and decided classic country is something I only want to hear in the mountains, and I was jumping around from 94.9 the Surf to Carolina Gold to WEZV. I put the AM back on WIOZ 550 (America's Best Music in the Fayetteville area, and by the way I heard no standards except "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker if that counts). There was a station there! I investigated and found out it was likely WAYR Jacksonville FL. I guess that's not so amazing since WOKV used to be the only Top 40 station in Myrtle Beach (during the day) and I've heard Rush Limbaugh there too.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I didn't check to see if I would hear anything when I went to Dunes Golf Course. That's as far north as I ever go any more. However, I heard nothing when I checked in Conway, where I remember being able to hear WNMB during the Bill Norman era.

I'll tell you what I did pick up. Switching from one FM to another in the car sometimes means ending up on AM. I had switched the AM to 105.5 Hank and decided classic country is something I only want to hear in the mountains, and I was jumping around from 94.9 the Surf to Carolina Gold to WEZV. I put the AM back on WIOZ 550 (America's Best Music in the Fayetteville area, and by the way I heard no standards except "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker if that counts). There was a station there! I investigated and found out it was likely WAYR Jacksonville FL. I guess that's not so amazing since WOKV used to be the only Top 40 station in Myrtle Beach (during the day) and I've heard Rush Limbaugh there too.
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The AM dial is weird here like that. Florida and Columbia come in but no Wilmington or Charleston. And of the few local AMs, one or two are always silent.
 
I don't remember ever hearing WNMB in a motel room but we always stayed on the south end.

WJXY 1050 was pretty clear (then) unless the AC was on. Not much of a signal at night.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't remember ever hearing WNMB in a motel room but we always stayed on the south end.

WJXY 1050 was pretty clear (then) unless the AC was on. Not much of a signal at night.
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1050 is now sports radio but as for it being the advertised 5 kw.. I beg to differ. I'm ten miles from Conway and can null it to the point it's gone with a PL 880 radio.
 
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