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101.1 FM Warsaw ... it's back

Juan Bodley said:
Scott I can say this: 106.3 DOES cover Columbia City decently. By Wikipedia's info (if you believe it) the transmitter for 106.3) is up by Huntertown off Hathaway Road. At this location and 5600 watts ERP they hit CC just fine, if anybody here listens. (I think the "wild bunch" are listening to Wild 96.3 or Hot 107.9.)

I stick to the little bug on the wall 91.5 FM for my local station...I just hope that if the 101.1 group does local coverage they DON'T go after Columbia City sports...then again I think they'd have to get permission from the Whitley County Consolidated School board to cover CC sports and I'm going to bet they will say NAY.
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"Just fine," of course, is a little less specific than what the FCC wants to see... ;D

I went back to the 2003 application for 106.3 (then WSHI) to move from the county line site up to the new tower in Huntertown that's shared with WBTU, and it looks like they had to do some fancy footwork with the FCC just to demonstrate that the 70 dBu city-grade contour for 106.3 would barely clear the west side of Columbia City. Page 8 is the important one here:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=100682754&qnum=5260&copynum=1&exhcnum=1

There's no way at all that they can demonstrate the needed 70 dBu coverage of South Whitley with the current 106.3 signal, and they're certainly not moving it back from Huntertown.

(I even looked to see if WBTU could work as a "South Whitley" license, and it falls a bit short, too - but then, it can't move from "Kendallville" either, because WAWK isn't a full-time license there and thus wouldn't count as "first local service" if it's the last signal left there. The WAWK translator doesn't count, either; it's "secondary service.")

Bottom line: unless someone's got something even more creative up their sleeve, 101.1 is good and stuck where it is.
 
I will say this: Scott you understand the contours and license requirements A LOT BETTER THAN ME. My last comment was based on reception only, not by measurement. So naturally I look the fool for saying it.
 
Nothing foolish at all! Just pointing out that the FCC's rules don't always reflect the reality on the ground...
 
A group of Ohio investors has apparently revived Q101. Inside information (second hand) indicates that the format on the air now may not be final. Country, perhaps? May be an LMA. RIP Chris Larko. You are now a Fort Wayne Legend.
 
With all this speculation and banter, Who are these Ohio investors that you claim to know of??? and format changes, along with people moving the tower site, Russ Osais, Really? Chris Larko's untimely passing, he would be laughing if he could read all these posts!
 
Scott, wouldn't even one watt of nighttime flea power make WAWK a "full time signal" for purposes of being a remaining local service in Kendallville? It worked in Connersville, IN whose only remaining local service after their FM moved to Cincinnati is an AM with 4 watts at night. Number one in the transmitter parking lot!
 
That's a very good question. I know that the FCC's rules at one time required true full-time protected service - i.e., not a class D facility like WAWK. In going back to the 2004 Rodgers petition to move 100.3 out of Connersville, it appears that the FCC might have erred, since its report and order even refers to "full-time" service.

The point is moot anyway - WBTU doesn't quite get 70 dBu over South Whitley, either. (Very few signals do!)
 
Hopefully before anybody thinks about moving transmitter sites, or even considering it, they'll fix the 96kb (at best) audio on the air.
 
Kwlz993 must be an insider as to the sound, I was in that area today and tuned in, actually thought it sounded pretty good. I really like the fact of hearing local news, sports and local weather in both cities of Columbia City and Warsaw. So what does your crystal ball tell you.
 
Ummm, how does it make me an insider when the audio on the air has no frequency response above about 10khz? However, this is an MP3-smashed to hell in the studio age, so I guess I shouldn't expect somebody to hear the difference between a 96 kb Mp3 on the FM band, versus somebody feeding the transmitter with clean uncompressed linear audio.
 
borderblaster said:
Scott, wouldn't even one watt of nighttime flea power make WAWK a "full time signal" for purposes of being a remaining local service in Kendallville? It worked in Connersville, IN whose only remaining local service after their FM moved to Cincinnati is an AM with 4 watts at night. Number one in the transmitter parking lot!
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I apologize for straying of-topic: Surprisingly, 1580 WIFE Connersville's 4.6-watt post-PSSA night power does VERY WELL. Its useable overnight signal hikes well-beyond "the parking lot" and covers nearly all of the city and central Fayette County. 'A bit amazing given the high-dial position!
My parents' home is 3.5 miles west of their tower, and they are robust-sounding and free of any interference—on a 15 khz wide Meduci PRO1k handmade C-QuAM-capable AM tuner. When they first launched their commendable Oldies format [and before they streamed on the internet], I positioned a Carver TX-11b [set to a 10 kHz bandwidth] at my brother's business at the north city limits [about 7.5-miles from them], and fed a 64k ACC+ VPN stream to the net so I could enjoy them from many states away. The reception was near-perfect at that location thru the first two hours of their higher-power PSSA, but suffered varied co-channel QRM late in the evening – still, it was listenable. No-doubt the situation is aided by their exceptional modulation and audio quality—the BEST I have heard on a small market stand-alone AM station! Miracles do exist, and and I'll bet a fair amount of money that THEY DON'T "cheat" to get that one!!! ;)
 
kb9wsl said:
Has anyone noticed the FM band is getting very crowded these days....kind of like the AM band.
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YES kb9wsl, the FM band has become so-crowded that my 1982 Mac MR-78 tuner with its distinguished I.F. stage NOW has useful merit. I'm amazed that a post about a Class A FM in the home of hip replacement appliances has merited six pages of comment here on R-I.
For the record, I rarely engage the power switch on that classic tuner – as there is SO-LITTLE worth listening-to on the FM band today. I'll enjoy my R>R tapes of Indy's WNAP from my youth, and enjoy—as I shed a tear!
 
i no what you mean but, we bang it load and proud. i know you don't listen to christian radio brother. but listen to it for 30 days there are christian artists that sound like the music you most likey listen to
Your bro in Christ
tsherck
 
Sorry but too much of the bible-bangers are full of it.
That's my sentiment and I'll say it out loud, on line and anywhere I can be heard.
Saturation leads to distaste, turning off, and someday somebody's going to get it and maybe the overcrowding will stop.

It can't come soon enough for me.
If you don't like what I'm saying, too damn bad. It's my personal opinion and I'll say it.
 
If I were them (Hot 107.9) or WMEE, or even WAJI, I wouldn't even blink about it being on the air. I'm not trying to rag on this station, but I'm sorry, there is nothing at all special about it at all. They're using Dial's Hot AC in a box format, no local jocks, and Dial's network jocks are weak to say the least.

I've always thought when you put a new station on the air, come out with guns a blazin'. They have done none of that on any level. Totally disappointed in this station.
 
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