I would have to tune to 94.94 or 94.95 to hear WJJF during an opening. Friday night, there was tropo conditions from South Jersey. B98.5 came in with RDS. I received SOJO 104.9 but on 104.86 with the TEF6686 to drown out IBOC from Power 105.1. That's my favorite part of the radio, tuning .04 away from the frequency and capturing extra stations I wouldn't get on their main channel due to IBOC
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FM Frequency of the Week: 94.9
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I was able to receive WSJO without having to off it on my XHDATA D-808. I used some rather creative ways to get a recording of it, such as this one, to null out the HD hash of 105.1.
They used to refer to that as the "Eye-full" Tower
Indeed they did. Later, different colors of lights were strung on the tower to indicate different weather conditions.
Driving past the tower on East 31st Street is always an unforgettable sight. The base of that thing is huge.
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It's a beautiful tower. I worked in KC in 2015 and the USN Blue Angels were in town for an airshow. The Friday before the airshow, I had a job at the Bellerive Apartments on E Armour and I was parked behind the building. They flew practice maneuvers over that tower for over an hour and I was just in awe. Got some amazing pictures as well.
What is the situation with the shorter self-supporter that is right next to it? I assume it's an older tower that never got taken down?
The shorter tower is used by KTBG-FM. 90.9 The Bridge. An awesome public broadcasting station that plays alternative music. It's COL is Warrensburg, MO.
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Yeah, you won't be able to DX on that frequency. WiLD's signal is way too strong.
Actually, the studios are at 125 East 31st Street along with KCPT, which owns KTBG. The transmitting tower is south of Oak Grove just on the Lafayette County side of the Lafayette-Jackson county line. The station is limited by having to put city-grade coverage over Warrensburg. I'm surprised they managed to get that far west of Warrensburg. I can't tell that it's got co-channel limits to the west. There was a CP on that frequency near Manhattan, Kansas but that's been deleted. Possibly 90.7 KJHK Lawrence, KS and/or 91.1 KSJI St. Joseph are limiting KTBG's ability to improve its signal over parts of the metropolitan area. Just as with 107.3 when it had its tower near Odessa, KTBG's coverage in the Kansas City urban core is spotty. Last time I was in Kansas City, I was near Southwest Boulevard and Broadway and tried to pick up KTBG there. It wasn't a strong signal in that location.
I suspect KTBG's main "competition", as it were, would be KKFI, though KTBG definitely has a more professional sound.
Also: the KCPT tower is at 2100 Stark near Blue Summit. It was built before KCMO radio and TV sold the studio building to KCPT and moved to Fairway, Kansas. People get mixed up about this all the time.
The shorter tower at 125 East 31st is the first KCMO-TV (now KCTV) tower. It was never actually licensed; the station operated for nearly three years on STAs until the big tower was built and then the station's license was officially issued. KCTV occasionally used the little tower - in the 1990s it was on when the station replaced its antenna on the big tower - and even where I lived in Brookside, the difference was noticeable. I guess no one ever bothered to take down the little tower once it was no longer in regular use. Might be a good place for a KTBG booster.
That was the first KCMO-TV tower, used for almost three years until the big tower was completed. More on that in post #29.
I know that the studio is in the KCPT building but I thought for sure that they used the smaller tower to transmit. But you are indeed correct, their tower is out in the pastures. I always picked up KTBG very well all over KC, maybe that's why I thought they were on the small tower next to the studio.
In the 1990s, what was still Central Missouri State University owned it; the transmitter then was about halfway between Interstate 70 and US 50 north of Warrensburg. I don't recall ever receiving it at my KC house. The big problem in those days at my house were all the high-power FMs located close-in: KYYS, KCMO-FM, KQRC, plus those on the East 63rd Street Trafficway tower that KMXV's predecessor built. The only clear shot I had was to the west. Fortunately, that's where Lawrence was, so I could pick up KJHK and KLZR on an outdoor antenna, and often the Topeka stations at 106.9 and 107.7.
CMSU's real head-scratcher, though, was accepting the donation for KMOS-TV, channel 6. They managed to get a tower up north of Sedalia in 1979 with the idea of being Columbia and Jefferson City's PBS station. But Columbia was full of interference, too, including an FM station on 88.1 that managed to be licensed when KMOS was run at low power by KRCG in Jefferson City. (Long story.) Finally, with digital TV in view, they built the state's tallest tower near Syracuse. I've wondered if the expense involved made them open to selling the FM station.
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