102.7 IN NWA

[wxman76]

Here in Northwest Arkansas, I can't figure out the mixed programming on the translater located west of Springdale at FM 102.7

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=K274BJ&service=FX&status=L&hours=U

Sometimes it is godcasting, sometimes it is long stretches of dead air, sometimes it is a simulcast of KRMG (AM 740/FM 102.3) out of Tulsa. Anybody know what is going here? Is this even legal? ???

 

[jjryan]

I have this frequency on my presets because it's one of our Ft Smith stations and I always recieved static on it in NWA unless I was south of Fayetteville where I could barely pick it up. I noticed about 2-3 months ago (if my memory is correct) that random programming was appearing on this frequency. I've heard sports play by play and talk anytime I've tuned in. I've never listened long enough to hear station IDs though. I keep meaning to ask our engineer about it but never do.

 

[Media Mogul]

The station the translator is supposed to be rebroadcasting is KSSQ-LP which is at 102.3 FM in Siloam Springs. They are a radio ministry of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. So that accounts for the religious programming on there.

I would guess that the translator in Harmon is using an over the air reception to feed their transmitter. So when originating station KSSQ goes off the air (which they are apparently prone to do quite often), the over-the-air receiver is getting KRMG-FM, which like KSSQ is on 102.3 FM, beaming Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and University of Tulsa sports directly into NW Arkansas.

Hope that answers your question.

 

[wxman76]

The station the translator is supposed to be rebroadcasting is KSSQ-LP which is at 102.3 FM in Siloam Springs. They are a radio ministry of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. So that accounts for the religious programming on there.

I would guess that the translator in Harmon is using an over the air reception to feed their transmitter. So when originating station KSSQ goes off the air (which they are apparently prone to do quite often), the over-the-air receiver is getting KRMG-FM, which like KSSQ is on 102.3 FM, beaming Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and University of Tulsa sports directly into NW Arkansas.

Hope that answers your question.

Thanks. It makes more sense now. I have noticed that the simulcast of KRMG tends to happen more when there is tropo coming in from Tulsa. At first, I thought it might be another KRMG translater somewhere in Oklahoma (say out of Muskogee, for example), but it was no where to be found in the database. With even stronger tropo, I have also heard on a couple of occasions when KXBL 99.5 out of Tulsa will bleed into the 105.3 translator of KAKS 99.5 out of Huntsville.

 

[Kent]

With even stronger tropo, I have also heard on a couple of occasions when KXBL 99.5 out of Tulsa will bleed into the 105.3 translator of KAKS 99.5 out of Huntsville.

This has always been a bit of a problem in Fayetteville. In the mid-90's, not long after the former KFAY-FM signed back on at 99.5 after what seemed like years off-air at 95.9, if I was at the stoplight at Sycamore and Gregg, KCKI 99.5 from Tulsa would come in almost every time. That was the reason for the 96.7 translator. The Power Radio Group had originally intended to use 99.5 to target Springdale, and that was why they selected the rockin' country format of "The Rebel" for it at first. They knew it wasn't going to be overly competitive in Fayetteville because of the transmitter location and the terrain.