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I was on the far east side of Cleveland today, punched up on my car radio 1460 AM. Nothing was there. The station is in Painsville, Ohio. From around E. 152nd street, I would think that I'd hear something if it was on the air. Looking at the radio locator site, they have two technical details. One for 2 directional patterns using 2 towers during the day and 4 at night. Daytime power is 1,000 watts and 500 watts at night. This is the supposedly currently active Class B station.

Their Construction Permit is to downgrade to a Class D station that will be non-Directional, with one tower, at 550 watts day, 54 watts at night. Maybe they were broadcasting with this.
 
The new tower is to be just north of I-90 in Mentor. At 550 watts you should have heard them in Collinwood like gangbusters. At 44 night it will cover enough of it's col to feed the translator. Likely it's not on now.
That first site was the original Fobes street site south of route 2 40 plus years ago when it was a real radio station where a young DJ named Johnnie B. held sway on weekends!
 
Santa fe said:
The new tower is to be just north of I-90 in Mentor. At 550 watts you should have heard them in Collinwood like gangbusters. At 44 night it will cover enough of it's col to feed the translator. Likely it's not on now.
That first site was the original Fobes street site south of route 2 40 plus years ago when it was a real radio station where a young DJ named Johnnie B. held sway on weekends!
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as a Class D it has no city of license coverage requirements and nothing is needed at night to "feed" the translator" .. it couldc go off air at night, and as long as it comes back the next day, the translator can stay on.. the AM could be 5 watts at night.. whatever, that has no bearing.. night coverage.. on the fm translator
 
Santa fe said:
The new tower is to be just north of I-90 in Mentor. At 550 watts you should have heard them in Collinwood like gangbusters. At 44 night it will cover enough of it's col to feed the translator. Likely it's not on now.
That first site was the original Fobes street site south of route 2 40 plus years ago when it was a real radio station where a young DJ named Johnnie B. held sway on weekends!
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WOW! Great memory of my time at then, WQLS-AM. Thank you! I enjoyed my year, or little over a year there. Maybe, someday, I'll tell the story of how I got the job. It's different than normal. Mid 1980s was the time-frame.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
as a Class D it has no city of license coverage requirements and nothing is needed at night to "feed" the translator" .. it couldc go off air at night, and as long as it comes back the next day, the translator can stay on.. the AM could be 5 watts at night.. whatever, that has no bearing.. night coverage.. on the fm translator
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I tuned in during daytime, sometime before noon.
 
I'm not sure I see the point in downgrading this facility. The transmitter site is in a residential area, but it's older, and semi rural...not exactly the "high rent district" by any means, and borders a limited access highway.
 
The original studio building and transmitter site has probably deteriorated to the point where it is not worth saving.
Likely the land alone is more valuable than the station, a typical AM situation these days.
With the switch at 1300, the AM urban gospel audience is left to the 1460/1000 combo. Now as a non profit, with limited real estate exposure and operating expenses, he could be able to make it work.
 
So I assume they sold the land where the old facilities were located.

Did 1300 change call letters with the new format or is it still WJMO?
 
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