103.9

[MsMusicRadio]

WSMR really sounds not much better in Tampa even at full power. Any news about the translator?

 

[rfrus]

Buy an HD radio and listen to 89.7-2 and stop complaining about 89.1 and 103.9.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

OK---------Its just the idea that us liberals are supposed to be NPR groupies and seems like WUSF was not on the level

 

[Ai4i]

And we have to live in the only market on the Florida peninsula where the fullltime classical station is all analogue!
Fort Myers WGCU-2
Fort Pierce: WQCS-1 & 2
Gainesville: WUFT-2
Jacksonville: WJCT-2
Miami: WKCP analogue
Orlando: WMFE-2
Sarasota: (too small, nobody cares)
Tallahassee: (not on the peninsula)
Tampa / St.Pete: WUSF-2
West Palm Beach: WXEL-2

 

[MsMusicRadio]

I am not the biggest fan of Classical music and would prefer the DelVikings, Jones,Haggard, or Bob Wills given a choice, but I do like to listen in the car as I drive around Tampa looking for Rose Ferlita signs. The signal stinks except sometimes at night. It would be very expensive to buy a new car radio and if I did, I'd get Sirius/XM for the Bluegrass and Classic Country. As a consumer of standard FM, I was hoping the repeater would arrive. Pirates seem to get on faster.

 

[daw]

I was told in October that there would be a translator signal 103.9 coming on the air in Hillsborough County and if necessary a translator for Pinellas County near the USF St.Petersburg campus if necessary. It sure sounded good at WUSF booth at the St.Petersburg Times Festival of Reading. Maybe the WUSF senior volunteer at that booth who told me that didn't want me to think that nothing could be done.

 

[Ai4i]

W280DW should still be on the table.
That map being very generous, we would expect the realistic coverage to be good in southern Pasco and northern Hillsborough counties.

 

[Ai4i]

That map being very generous...

Here is a more believable one (give it time to load).

 

[badjef]

And we have to live in the only market on the Florida peninsula where the fullltime classical station is all analogue!
Fort Myers WGCU-2
Fort Pierce: WQCS-1 & 2
Gainesville: WUFT-2
Jacksonville: WJCT-2
Miami: WKCP analogue
Orlando: WMFE-2
Sarasota: (too small, nobody cares)
Tallahassee: (not on the peninsula)
Tampa / St.Pete: WUSF-2
West Palm Beach: WXEL-2

Technically, Fort Myers and Miami are not on the peninsula.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[Ai4i]

Technically, Fort Myers and Miami are not on the peninsula.

No ???
Maybe the glans ;D

 

[jmtillery]

Technically, Fort Myers and Miami are not on the peninsula.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

Realizing I may be missing something relevant, I have to ask "Am I missing something?" When were the communities of Miami and Fort Myers moved off the mainland Florida peninsula? The last time I checked, each community was still geographically located on the Florida peninsula mainland while Miami Beach and Fort Myers Beach have always been geographically located on respective islands just slightly off the mainland coast. Hence, Miami Beach and Fort Myers Beach are not geograpically situated on the Florida Peninisula mainland and, instead, qualify as islands.

Considering the entire state, excluding the Panhandle, beginning at the Florida / Georgia line North of Jacksonville, ranging South to the beginning of the Florida Keys, heading towards Marco Island / Naples and back North towards Fort Myers, Tampa Bay Crystal River and ending just past Taylor County on the West Coast, this part of the state qualifies as the mainland Peninsula with the exceptions of any islands along the way, such as Cedar Key, which are technically not a part of the Peninsula itself as they are islands.

Again, if I am missing something, please explain how Miami and Fort Myers are not a part of the Peninsula? I'm looking forward to your response.

 

[badjef]

Technically, Fort Myers and Miami are not on the peninsula.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

Realizing I may be missing something relevant, I have to ask "Am I missing something?" When were the communities of Miami and Fort Myers moved off the mainland Florida peninsula? The last time I checked, each community was still geographically located on the Florida peninsula mainland while Miami Beach and Fort Myers Beach have always been geographically located on respective islands just slightly off the mainland coast. Hence, Miami Beach and Fort Myers Beach are not geograpically situated on the Florida Peninisula mainland and, instead, qualify as islands.

Considering the entire state, excluding the Panhandle, beginning at the Florida / Georgia line North of Jacksonville, ranging South to the beginning of the Florida Keys, heading towards Marco Island / Naples and back North towards Fort Myers, Tampa Bay Crystal River and ending just past Taylor County on the West Coast, this part of the state qualifies as the mainland Peninsula with the exceptions of any islands along the way, such as Cedar Key, which are technically not a part of the Peninsula itself as they are islands.

Again, if I am missing something, please explain how Miami and Fort Myers are not a part of the Peninsula? I'm looking forward to your response.

Yes, you are missing the Okeechobee Waterway. As a result of it, anything (or place) south is not on the peninsula.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[jmtillery]

I thought about the waterway; However, I was unaware it crossed the entire state, literally severing the Southern portion from the mainland. Apparently I must have a "defective" Florida atlas which I will take a much closer look. This literaly makes the most Southern portion of Florida an island which, again, I was unaware.

Thank you for the explanation as your statement got the better part of my curiosity.

 

[badjef]

I thought about the waterway; However, I was unaware it crossed the entire state, literally severing the Southern portion from the mainland. Apparently I must have a "defective" Florida atlas which I will take a much closer look. This literaly makes the most Southern portion of Florida an island which, again, I was unaware.

Thank you for the explanation as your statement got the better part of my curiosity.

It was, of course, designed that way.

What is the most southern town on the peninsula of Florida?

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[Ai4i]

What is the most southern town on the peninsula of Florida?

If we do not count all that undocumented wilderness to the southwest, it would have to be this tree at the end of SW 1'st Ct (give the whole thing time to fully load) although Cape Coral is a full city, not a town!

 

[badjef]

What is the most southern town on the peninsula of Florida?

If we do not count all that undocumented wilderness to the southwest, it would have to be this tree at the end of SW 1'st Ct (give the whole thing time to fully load) although Cape Coral is a full city, not a town!

Cape Coral is correct!

It wasn't always a city. It is, of course, a City of License for radio & TV stations.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[Ai4i]

So, you are saying all of Florida south of this waterway is one big island and a bunch of small islands?

 

[badjef]

So, you are saying all of Florida south of this waterway is one big island and a bunch of small islands?

Pretty much.

Include, in your discussion, one of the widest rivers in the world separate the two large Islands, and there you have it.

...now back to the post.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[Ai4i]

WSMR's local voices are seasoned professionals and Classical 24's overnight staff is even more so, however, we would suggest to WSMR that they stop purchasing overnight service from Classical 24 and make this time available to interns from USF's school of music in their college of arts and from their school of mass communications.
It puts big ;D's on faces to hear young voices correctly pronounce Chopin, Dvořák, Mozart, Wagner, and of course, Yevgény Onégin,

 

[daw]

If 89.1 signal is not heard very well at night in Hillsborough County what difference does it make where they get their programming? I don't know when the last USF students were allowed to have a show on 89.7, so what makes anyone think that will happen on the NEW 89.1......