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For Sale Atlanta GA Market AM Station with FM Translator For Sale

For sale: AM radio station and FM translator that serve the Atlanta market (from the east side of Atlanta). The AM is a 50 kw nondirectional that puts a 0.5 mV/m protected contour over all of Atlanta, and east as far as Athens, and the transmitter site and tower are owned. For more details, please contact [email protected].
 
For sale: AM radio station and FM translator that serve the Atlanta market (from the east side of Atlanta). The AM is a 50 kw nondirectional that puts a 0.5 mV/m protected contour over all of Atlanta, and east as far as Athens, and the transmitter site and tower are owned. For more details, please contact [email protected].
With today's man made noise levels on AM, it takes a 10 mV/m signal to be listenable in a populated metro area. In fact, the IBU in Europe thinks that you need 15 mV/m to overcome the noise.

So tell us the population inside the 10 mV/m contour is?
 
With today's man made noise levels on AM, it takes a 10 mV/m signal to be listenable in a populated metro area. In fact, the IBU in Europe thinks that you need 15 mV/m to overcome the noise.

Either he doesn't know that or he failed to realize that there are people here who do ...
 
How much of the audience is listening on the translator, though?

You tell me.

Presuming Kat is correct about which station it is: Blue line is the daytime 2 mV/m contour of the AM, red is the translator.

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One comment on the 'supposed' noise levels with AM. Other than when I was working in rooms with multiple computers (both at HFS and ASU), I have had, and still have, few problems receiving AM stations on my portable receivers either at home or in motor vehicles. Now I realize that most people listen online at their work places, but, from my personal experience, the claims about AM being noisy in general are really overblown. And I suspect that many of these claims are coming from groups that are trying their damndest (and possibly succeeding) to stop people from listening to free over-the-air radio in favor of radio that comes with a monthly service fee.
 
As long as there is free over-the-air radio, I will advocate for it/listen to it, over payed over-the-internet radio. Don't get me wrong, I do listen to some stations online, but there's still nothing like over-the-air and free local, regional, etc, broadcast radio.
 


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