In front of Lorain City Hall right at Broadway and West Erie Ave. is a sign directing people to tune their radios to 107.1 FM to hear music that goes along with their Christmas light display the city has along West Erie Ave. in front of City Hall and across the street by Veterans Park. My question is why are they using this frequency? Even while driving in front of the light displays, the 107.1 signal gets chewed up by WNWV's HD. Wouldn't an open frequency such as 93.5 or 101.7 or 100.3 have been much better for this?
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107.1 in Lorain for Christmas Light Display Music?
- Thread starter Buckeyes2001
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You never know what's in the mind of, or lack of what's in the mind of those who make decisions like this. I'm hard pressed to think that there is actually somebody there who has no idea about one of the best FM signals in the market at 107.3. But, then again, somebody might have been foolish enough to think... "Hey, with the WAVE coming back, lots of people who might like our Christmas music will be tuning in to 107.3 and possibly hear us"... not understanding the perils of first adjacant interference. In a restaurant in the Galleria, some genius put their in-house audio system on 100.7 FM (WMMS' actual frequency). So in the restaurant, if you have a radio, and you tune in 100.7, you don't get WMMS.
Akron mayoral candidate Mike Williams used those "talking billboards" on trucks, and used 107.1.
It's not quite as bad as using 107.1 in Lorain - of all places! - but he did get some adjacent channel slop from WNWV even in Akron.
It's not quite as bad as using 107.1 in Lorain - of all places! - but he did get some adjacent channel slop from WNWV even in Akron.
OhioMediaWatch said:
Did he also get some slop from WRQK 106.9?
Buckeyes2001 said:
Oh, that, too. I just had 107.3 in mind because of this thread.
Most people running Low Flea Power Transmitters don't understand freq selection... I have this problem in the car often listening to a local translator on 88.3 here in Columbus... I will come upon a car in traffic and hear "sirus XM" instead while behind them when 88.3 is not a clear frequency at all.
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