100.3

[JH_Radio]

There as a time in the 70's and early 80's i believe when 100.3/Media was off the air, correct?
Did WHTZ, or in the case of earlier WVNJ-FM come in from NYC all the way till you got to ware WJRZ would beat it up?
Basicly my question is when 100.3/Media was off the air, how far did the NYC freq stretch?
John

 

[eyg2181]

john, the NYC stations are nearly impossible to hear any further than bristol. for stations in the big apple, their signals are horrible. from what i notices, K Rock is NYC's strongest station, now back to your questionb, a good DX set could get 1003 from NYC with phillys 1003 off the air, but in the car, nearly all nyc stations are unaudible. the jersey shore stations on the other hand, different story, wchr, wsjo, and wbbo all reach up in bucks county as far as hew hope and buckingham areas at the least.

 

[JH_Radio]

With IBOC i can only get WXRK.
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Before IBOC with my DX setup i could get
92.3 WXRK
103.5 WKTU
98.7 WRKS
107.5 WBLS
95.5 WPLJ
102.7 WNEW
93.1 WPAT
106.7 WLTW

All as if they were local, and in clear stereo.

Now with IBOC on, i can get WXRK with lots of hiss from IBOC, KTU and BLS were never effected because i dont think PRB uses IBOC, and Frank is on the same freq as BLS so all I need do is turn my roter.
I can't get PLJ, RKS, PAT, or WWFS anymore.
WLTW comes in wel though.
John
Bensalem, PA

 

[nd2023]

I got KTU just west of Philly in King of Prussia

 

[Play Freebird]

There as a time in the 70's and early 80's i believe when 100.3/Media was off the air, correct?
Did WHTZ, or in the case of earlier WVNJ-FM come in from NYC all the way till you got to ware WJRZ would beat it up?
Basicly my question is when 100.3/Media was off the air, how far did the NYC freq stretch?
John

WVNJ-FM was required to use a directional antenna until the WKSZ construction permit was granted in 1982.

WVNJ's original site was next to WFME, the old DA was required to provide at least 7 dB of protection towards Media. The short-spacing rule at that time required co-channel stations in that distance bracket to operate at 10 kW/500 feet towards one another. I think WVNJ-FM had a maximum ERP of 24 kW at that time, so the reduction to the southwest would have been to below 5 kW. In reality, the "null" was probably deeper than legally necessary, so at best, the power was probably 2 or 3 kW.

Before its license was revoked, Carl McIntyre's WXUR offered mutual protection simply because it was only a 4 kW facility.

In 1982, the licensee of WVNJ and Dan Lerner, permittee of WKSZ, signed a mutual upgrade agreement allowing both stations to operate with full Class B facilities towards each other. Surprisingly, WVNJ-FM had no other short-spacings close enough to require a reduction below 50 kW and was clear to move to Empire, so the owner filed for a CP to use the nondirectional Alford master antenna. Once granted, he sold the station license to Malrite; they built the new facility, launched Z-100, and the rest is history.

When the move occured, I recall WHTZ took over the former WPIX-FM combiner port on the Alford antenna. The filters required some retuning to shift from 101.9 down to 100.3 but very few other modifications due to their central position in the band.

By the way, WPIX-FM was one of the original Alford stations, but left Empire for WTC in the '70s, only to learn that their Midtown signal had suffered, and the coverage became worse a few years later due to intermod between newcomer WHTZ and WCBS-FM. After the ERI master antenna was installed, 101.9 was able to move back to Empire.

 

[8638]

Great little history lesson on the 100.3 freq! Thanks.

Where I live, on the shore, sideband hash from IBuzz isn't a problem, so I can still DX fairly easily.

 

[GSP163]

On the flip side up here in NE New Jersey before IBOC I was able to get WYSP quite clearly as far north as Morristown on I-287.....Heading south the rest of the Philly stations would quickly follow (even 103.9 Jenkintown would be a 50/50 mix with WFAS-FM)......Today I get nothing from Philly in Morristown and I now have to drive a good 10+ miles south before I get any listenable signal.

As far as 100.3 during the 2003 NE Blackout I was able to get a nice listenable signal from WPLY (it was Y-100 at the time) way up here in Bergen County just NW of NYC.