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1110 WTIS Application

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David Sharp

Noticed on the FCC website an application for WTIS:

1. New transmitter site just east of D/T Tampa and just NW of Palm River...

2. Change C-O-L from Tampa to St. Pete (a little ironic...station now licensed to Tampa with xmtr in St. Pete may move xmtr to Tampa and change C-O-L)...

3. 10kW day AND 4.2 kW "critical hours."

If approved, and if it means WTIS can go full-time...good luck to 'em with WBT co-channel.
 
I looked at their application. They are trying to go non-directional rather than using the existing three towers.
They will never get nighttime. Perhaps they are going to use one of the WTMP towers.
 
This will be less facilities than they currently have. I agree, they will never get nite authorization as they are too close to Charlotte. Ever listen to them when they sign off? WBT is there just as loud as WTIS was
 
Less facilities, yes. It will save them tower and phasor maintenance costs.
Also, they won't need to take monthly field strength measurements.
 
David Sharp said:
Noticed on the FCC website an application for WTIS:
...
3. 10kW day AND 4.2 kW "critical hours."
...
If approved, and if it means WTIS can go full-time...good luck to 'em with WBT co-channel.
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It doesn't mean WTIS can go full-time. "Critical hours" are the two hours following sunrise and the two hours preceding sunset. (see FCC regulation 73.14)
 
Looks to me like they're trying to get out of the site off 4th street in St. Pete... are they about to sell the land? If not, 1040 should try to grab the site -- since its Lake Seminole haunt is so precarious.
 
Wasnt this station WALT at one time years ago? WQYK AM also if I'm not mistaken. Who's 3 tower inline site is about a mile north of Hillsborough and East of Dale Mabry inside an apartment complex?
 
If memory serves, that was the old WDAE (when DAE was on 1250) site. WTMP is now at that site.
 
WTIS has already sold their transmitter site, thats why they are moving.

Critical Hours are two hours after Sunrise and two hours before sunset. They are not adding any hours.
 
Yeah that "east of Dale mabry" site is Egypt Lake. 1250 was there with only two towers as I remember when they were 5KW..the third stick must have come along when TMP went there.

Can WTIS move to 1100 or 1130? and why can't 1550 get a power increase? and DA-N?
 
Can WTIS operate critical hours now? I seem to remember at one time, they couldn't. It seems "critical hours" operation is actually part of the application. Even so, I think WBT will give them real dramas.
 
David Sharp said:
Can WTIS operate critical hours now? I seem to remember at one time, they couldn't. It seems "critical hours" operation is actually part of the application. Even so, I think WBT will give them real dramas.
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All stations (with the possible exception of a tiny number of sharetimers) are allowed to operate during critical hours - they're part of "FCC daytime".

However, some stations are required to reduce power (or, on rare occasions, go directional, or both) during these hours.

If I were to venture a guess, I would guess WTIS was required to use a directional antenna in order to avoid interfering with WBT (Charlotte NC) during critical hours. They could obtain the same protection by reducing power to 4.2kw rather than going directional. Doing it that way they could get away with only one tower, making it easier to find a new site after selling the old one.

But that's only a guess.
 
Yes....back in the good ole days...long before FUn Radio for Great Tampa Bay..WLCY, 1110 was W A L T...as miss that too. And you could enjoy WBT when WALT signed off
 
1130 would not be a frequency WTIS 1110 could switch to since there is an 1130 a.m. in Bartow,Fl about 40 miles from downtown Tampa; but I don't know why 1100 would not be viable; although since this station seems to be running on the cheap (I don't think they have any live and local programming at all, I've never even heard traffic or weather or even a time check on WTIX), I don't think they're looking for a 24 hour operation, unless they want to sell and then the 1100 dial poition might increase the value of the station since that freqency would probably be granted night time operation at a reduced power of course, but WTAM 1100 out of Cleaveland is a lot further away than Charlotte.
 
I'm not an expert on this, but wouldn't 1100 still cause problems seeing that WWWE/Atlanta is a daytimer because of WTAM? Heck, speaking of Atlanta, KFI/LA keeps WGST from upping above 1kW nights.
 
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