I was driving into work this morning from Old Hickory and while I don't normally receive 88.7 clearly until Lebanon Road, it wasn't even listenable as I approached Fesslers Lane. I drive that way daily listening to 88.7 with little issues under the 89.1 tower, however today it was splattering bad. Even now in my office near 100 Oaks, but LOS with the 89.1 tower, 88.7 is nothing but splatter. Same on 89.5, which is an even stronger signal. This is on a Boston Receptor radio that I've never had issues with bleeding before. Not even when I had it at home on 93.9 sandwiched between the more powerful Fish. This had better not be the new signal. It took some finagling to finally pull in 88.7 in the office. 88.7 and 89.5 are only a few miles from 89.1: I don't see how the FCC would allow such.
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89.1 Cranked up the Power!?
- Thread starter NashvilleNative
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Sorry for the repost. Apparently Firefox had some issues.
89.1 installed their new antenna on Wednesday. If they're testing, they should only be at 50% of their directional power. Assuming that they operating according to Hoyle, which is doubtful, they are at 11,000 watts. If they're blowing 88.7 out of the water now, I wouldn't hold out much hope for WAY-FM once WECV turns up the juice.
FM directionals are theoretical at best and only work on paper. The only engineers who believe they actually "protect" co-channels are the ones at the FCC.
The engineers at WAY-FM could file an opposition to the WECV license application, but, ultimately, it would be a waste of WAY-FM's time and money.
FM directionals are theoretical at best and only work on paper. The only engineers who believe they actually "protect" co-channels are the ones at the FCC.
The engineers at WAY-FM could file an opposition to the WECV license application, but, ultimately, it would be a waste of WAY-FM's time and money.
They must have some fine tuning to do. Not only is 88.7 and 89.5 completely covered up, but I can listed to 89.1 on every frequency from 88.3 to 89.9.
same for me driving home at 5:30p...splatter from Bott @ 89.1 from 88.3 all the way up to 90.1...completely covering
WMOT 89.5 and WAY-FM 88.7 at times...and this continued as far east as Elm Hill and Briley. That's a lot of spectrum to abuse selling
creationism DVD's...("we all know there are no fossils older than 4000 years old")... we do? really?
No way they can stay this out of tolerance for very long.
WMOT 89.5 and WAY-FM 88.7 at times...and this continued as far east as Elm Hill and Briley. That's a lot of spectrum to abuse selling
creationism DVD's...("we all know there are no fossils older than 4000 years old")... we do? really?
No way they can stay this out of tolerance for very long.
Maybe that is the same problem with 88.5. I could not listen to WVCP yesterday morning on my drive to work due to interference. I tried listening on Briley Parkway from Elm Hill Pike to I-65/Briley. I tuned back and forth between 88.5 and 102.9 at various times, but had no luck in hearing Volunteer State very well. I thought it was 88.7 interfering with it. And, the worse part is I could not hear my favorite big band station at 89.9.
If 89.1 has ratcheted up the power, then I suppose they can turn off all their translators now! 
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