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Is WKRP the Cincinnati radio station that covers Dayton but not Cincinnati?

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Steveb1

Haven’t lived there for a long time, but looking at the signal contours for the three stations it looks like it would have trouble downtown and likely directly west and east. The marginal contours of WKRP and WNKR touch around downtown, and the effects of the valley, the buildings, and the Mt Auburn transmitters would probably chew up the rest of the signal. However, Dayton has a significant overlap.

Looks like the station’s website exaggerates the coverage.

Was wondering from someone that lives there how is the coverage.
 
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I was wondering about this issue myself looking at their maps a while back.
I know I had my choice of 97.7 and 94.5 when I was in Mason on a work trip at the end of May. 97.7 was stronger but I had very few issues with 94.5.
Both faded almost simultaneously around Jeffersonville.
 
Steveb1 said:
Haven’t lived there for a long time, but looking at the signal contours for the three stations it looks like it would have trouble downtown and likely directly west and east. The marginal contours of WKRP and WNKR touch around downtown, and the effects of the valley, the buildings, and the Mt Auburn transmitters would probably chew up the rest of the signal. However, Dayton has a significant overlap.

Looks like the station’s website exaggerates the coverage.

Was wondering from someone that lives there how is the coverage.
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What’s funny about this is 94.5 is one of their stations, and that is the downtown Cincinnati translator frequency for WLW.
 
The WLW translator also jams WMXL Lexington. WMXL used to be audible in Highland Heights almost like it was next door, but not anymore. But the last time it was anything interesting was when it was WLAP-FM.
 
Directional Ray said:
The Longley Rice maps clearly show that neither signal actually covers Cincinnati well at all. Terrain in this market is not friendly to FM and these maps reflect my experience with these signals. 97.7 is north of the hills and 106.7 is south of them.

97.7: https://www.rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=cdae96d646bc461ea7adc1b6063ebeb7&map=Y
106.7: https://www.rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=c76ce5692b9a4ef1b000c1b6063ebeb7&map=Y
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How difficult would it be to add a repeater for 97.7 in order to cover Cincinnati? Would it even be possible?
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
Not on 97.7, due to WYGY.
They might be able to buy a translator, but a translator that covered Cincy could not just use WKRP as the originating station due to rules about how far away translators can be from their parent station.
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WYGY would have nothing to do with it. There are several translators in the market that are two channels away from full power FMs. 94.5, 96.9, 100.7, 101.5, 102.3, 103.1 all come to mind. It would really be prevented by 97.7 itself. It's too close and would cause interference to the main signal. That's not allowed.
 


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