Legend becomes fact when there is a history of failures from The Rock. I call it the Venable curse.
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Legend becomes fact when there is a history of failures from The Rock. I call it the Venable curse.
“Stone Mountain Radio Coverage Curse”
The weird part of the “Stone Mountain Radio Coverage Curse” is in the winter when the trees have lost their leaves there are many places west of I 75 you can see Stone Mountain without binoculars. At Kennestone Hospital in Marietta you use to see both Kennesaw and Stone mountains, until all the building were built. Thus the name (Kenne)saw (Stone) Mountain . Stone Mountain is around 20 miles away. Channel 8’s change to RF Channel 7 should answer a few questions. Is there some kind of “interference” to channel 8 or is there really is something wrong with Stone Mountain as a transmitter site.
IMHO with circular polarization FM should work line of site. The only exceptions I can think of are thermal inversions, and tropo ducting. Either doesn’t happen all the time.
The weird part of the “Stone Mountain Radio Coverage Curse” is in the winter when the trees have lost their leaves there are many places west of I 75 you can see Stone Mountain without binoculars. At Kennestone Hospital in Marietta you use to see both Kennesaw and Stone mountains, until all the building were built. Thus the name (Kenne)saw (Stone) Mountain . Stone Mountain is around 20 miles away. Channel 8’s change to RF Channel 7 should answer a few questions. Is there some kind of “interference” to channel 8 or is there really is something wrong with Stone Mountain as a transmitter site.
IMHO with circular polarization FM should work line of site. The only exceptions I can think of are thermal inversions, and tropo ducting. Either doesn’t happen all the time.
WGTV also tripled their power with the move to RF channel 7. That said, VHF stations (the only two in ATL being WXIA on RF 10 and WGTV on RF 7, not counting the WTBS Franken-FM on channel 6) don't transmit as well digitally as UHF stations do. They are also the only two stations I have difficulty getting in with an antenna. However, most small contemporary TV antennas are optimized for UHF, not VHF, which makes matters worse.
I guess I have a weakness for AM stations which need a little “love”. Without actually visiting the transmitter site, from want I can gather, there is a cell “array” on the 1010 tower that’s making the old series feed system inoperable. According to reputable sources on this board, shunt antennas are used on high powered AM’s. Not to beat a dead horse but the antenna should be fixable for less than 6 figures installation included. You might not get the “whole” coverage they use to have but I believe 1010’s only real use is to “program” a translator. Unless the translator goes father than “25 mile” rule, I personally don’t see what the big deal was. The FCC most likely would have allowed some kind of technical STA with 2 poles and a wire “clothes line” rig. The FCC is very liberal with AM stations that have “lost use of their tower” whether thru storms or stupidity (selling their antenna site without a site to move their AM to). Cell tower rent can be an excellent source of income. Who is getting the “rent”?
IMHO it was the actual programming that could not be sold that caused Mr. Regan to pull the plug. Anybody that buys any radio station without an engineer doing "due diligence" is a fool.
There are alternatives for grounded towers that allow their use for mobile, cellular and two-way systems. The most common is the folded unipole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folded_unipole_antenna There are even some nice pictures.
IIRC (Wow has it been 50+ years?) WDBL AM had a skirt style shunt fed AM system in the late 1960's. They had their FM (94.3) on the same tower. Subsequent owners sold the FM and it got moved next to Ft. Campbell. KIUL used a folded unipole . The tower was also a relay for their KWKR microwave system which was not line of site due to cross ownership issues with the local newspaper. Both systems worked well.
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