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"A previous sale to WILL REGAN's RC MEDIA PARTNERS, INC. for $352,500 failed to close as REGAN pulled the plug on a short-lived News-Talk format in MARCH.
The seller bought WTZA for $1.1 million in 2015."
As far as I know it's on 102.1 but I've never actually heard it.
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alleo
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$300,000 dollars is all for 50 Kw am ,and a translator DAM. the seller of this paid 1.1 million in I be-leave 2015.see to be with up with a station like WBIN ,full power days for a competing in a big market
What did you mean to say there?
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Will Regan had repeatedly claimed the seller failed to disclose xmiter issues. Also cited damage to the WTZA tower that would’ve cost "well into the six figures" to repair.
I believe Radio Punjab started airing well before the sale.
I believe Radio Punjab started airing well before the sale.
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alleo
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Davis was asked if he wanted to buy WTZA ,he passed maybe that will have been a great idea yet we don't know,He still has an FM translator in west Stone mt to build,weave been looking for a great tower,but Stone mt didn't work for the translator even using 10 watts in the radio room on top.
I've heard that granite has the WORST ground conductivity (and, of course, Stone Mt has so much granite that it just pokes right up through the ground
. I know the type of ground affects AM signals, but didn't ch.8 have a lot of problems when it had its tower on top of Stone Mt? (If it affected VHF, it would affect FM.)Are there any broadcast towers left on Stone Mountain?
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alleo
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The rock on the trail west going towards Atlanta,It sloops down and that seems to pull fm single down instead of out .We try translator 101.1 W266BW there a week and didn't get over the 285 west ,no single north past I-285,so while high and save loss on long transmision line it dosn't seem to work like a regular earth mountain,as the WGTV there still up there but there now DTV so that a uhf feq post repack
The TV repack put WGTV virtual channel 8 on RF channel 7, not a UHF channel. But yes, it's on Stone Mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGTV
AFAIK there are no ground conductivity effects with FM (including VHF).
KEC80, the NOAA weather radio station, is also on Stone Mountain.
Are you saying that the rock material on the west side of Stone Mountain actually causes the FM signal from the tower on top to be drawn to it instead of having a normal straight-out line-of-sight signal? And, you tried transmitting 101.1 for a week and couldn’t get its signal west or north of I-285? And, even if the mountain was high and you didn’t have a lot of signal loss by not having a long transmission line, the granite mountain affected the signal in a way a regular mountain wouldn’t? And, even though WGTV is still there, it is a UHF digital signal now that is not harmed as much? Is that what you’re saying?
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Alleo, when are you going to get a real PC? Those tablets are just awful for this type of thing.
It is true that VHF freqs have virtually no ground wave mode as MF (AM) stations use. However, if the antenna is close to the top of the mountain, AND the top of the mountain has enough surface area, I'm wondering if Fresnel zone interference (from the top of the mountain) could become an issue. Basically if the re-radiation from the mountain top (that is strongly illuminated) could create multipath. If the transmit antenna is located far above the mountain peak (as on top of the channel 8 tower) or the area of the mountain peak is small, this would not be a problem. There are several propagation programs (Longley-Rice method) that should be able to model this effect. I don't remember reading any technical papers that treat this topic.
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First off we were inside a fiberglass dome the second floor of the gift shop building (green roof )in Google earth pic .We couldn't be on the WGTV 300 foot tower cause only non com broadcasting is allowed.So driving test proved we had to move to get into Atlanta.We are now at 950 feet on the American tower (used to be Richland) off Briacliff Rd
Local tech "legend" is that nothing has worked well from Stone mountain. Despite a <apparent> clean path into the city. WABE was there for a time, but moved back into the city because the multipath apparently ate the WABE signal. Channel 8 is one of the most problematic signals in the DTV era.
I have never really looked at what might be the cause, but Fresnel zone clearance(s) makes a lot of sense.
Because of the "legend", Stone mountain is generally thought of as a bad location in the RF broadcast community.
I have never really looked at what might be the cause, but Fresnel zone clearance(s) makes a lot of sense.
Because of the "legend", Stone mountain is generally thought of as a bad location in the RF broadcast community.
Who is "we?"
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alleo
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Well its I and the station owner had he,s station antenna inside a ..............
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