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[DToTheJ]

If they are going "AAAAAAAAAARRRRGH", it would be Murdoch property

Then it would simulcast 92.5 out of Fort Myers. ;D

Does your comment mean you like or dislike 92.5 Fort Myers?

Do you mean 92.5 WFSX in Estero? What does this commercial FM have to do with the non-comms of RTN?

Fox News... Rupert Murdoch... Get it? Doesn't hurt to be a little less serious every once in awhile.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

It seems the majority of these repeaters are faith based. In Pittsburgh, suburban "Froggy 104.3" has one at 105.5 in downtown. Why don't stations like 94.5 in Orlando ,for example, have one here. Nobody here plays what they do. WJQB should have one in Tampa and Pinellas so 'True Oldies" are available to everybody.

 

[Nostalgia]

It seems the majority of these repeaters are faith based. In Pittsburgh, suburban "Froggy 104.3" has one at 105.5 in downtown. Why don't stations like 94.5 in Orlando ,for example, have one here. Nobody here plays what they do. WJQB should have one in Tampa and Pinellas so 'True Oldies" are available to everybody.

Translators are funny things, different rules for commercial and non-commercial stations. Commercial stations can only use them for fill ins, holes in existing coverage and cannot use them to extend their existing coverage. However, non-commercial translators, courtesy of the religious broadcasters lobby, can have them all over the place spreading the word and pretty much keeping anyone else from getting one. And dont get me started on ownership restrictions! Check recnet.com, a very vocal critic of translators owned or filed for by religious broadcasters. They call it the Great Translator Invasion! My biggest heartburn with this is that NCE stations can file for translators out in the commercial part of the band, but of course the opposite is not available. So religious broadcasters filed literally thousands of applications during the last window all over the band gobbleing up every available allocation.

Of course we now have the new ruling allowing AM stations to have FM translators but that is a different story.

And DToTheJ, dont listen to Fox News, I know who Rupert Murdoch is but still miss the joke. Sorry but I am just an old AM rock and roll DJ burnout longing for the good old days, hence my screen name.

 

[sbe1]

AM's with flea power authorizations, (usually PSSA on a class D station), are buying up a lot of these translators. 1220 here in Sarasota now has one. Its funny they bury the ID of the translator and call themselves AM and FM. They also recently moved their transmitter to east of I75 and are supposed to be operating with 159 watts ND with a single tower under a STA, but their construction permit is a 2 tower DA at 1KW. They are much too powerful daytimes to be only 250 watts. Their translator has a lot of co channel interference, but if you are near it, it gives them FM presence.

 

[Nostalgia]

AM's with flea power authorizations, (usually PSSA on a class D station), are buying up a lot of these translators. 1220 here in Sarasota now has one. Its funny they bury the ID of the translator and call themselves AM and FM. They also recently moved their transmitter to east of I75 and are supposed to be operating with 159 watts ND with a single tower under a STA, but their construction permit is a 2 tower DA at 1KW. They are much too powerful daytimes to be only 250 watts. Their translator has a lot of co channel interference, but if you are near it, it gives them FM presence.

They are buying them IF they can find them, move them, and they qualify under the new AM rules. WSRQ I think had theirs before the ruling took effect and was running it under an STA like some others were. Sad to hear about their interferance problems. I was actually talking to someone today about them and we agreed that they probably would be in no great hurry to build the new AM towers as long as they have decent coverage on FM. If thats not the case then they have to move forward I guess.

Typically translators ID via FSK which you cannot hear without a special decoder so I guess as long as they do their legal ID with the call and COL, then throw in AM and FM afterward it would be OK.

 

[TerryKay]

Nostalgia: how far out can you hear the WSRQ translator?

I was at Bok Tower, Lake Wales last Saturday, and on the drive over on SR-60, I noticed a signal fading up on 1510 a the Hillsborough-Polk county line. It was WWBC, Cocoa (Southern gospel and brokered), 50 kW D, 25 critical. One of their top-of-hour ID's included translator W234BI, Cocoa on 94.7. FCC dB has different ownerships. Surprised they qualified for a translator with that much flame, though if you look at their pattern, much of the signal is thrown up the coast and into the Atlantic, I suppose to protect WLAC, Nashville.

No joy hearing it from that distance, only WSYR-FM, Vero Beach (COL = Gifford) "Star 94-7" was audible till a little past Bartow on the return drive.

 

[Nostalgia]

Nostalgia: how far out can you hear the WSRQ translator?

I was at Bok Tower, Lake Wales last Saturday, and on the drive over on SR-60, I noticed a signal fading up on 1510 a the Hillsborough-Polk county line. It was WWBC, Cocoa (Southern gospel and brokered), 50 kW D, 25 critical. One of their top-of-hour ID's included translator W234BI, Cocoa on 94.7. FCC dB has different ownerships. Surprised they qualified for a translator with that much flame, though if you look at their pattern, much of the signal is thrown up the coast and into the Atlantic, I suppose to protect WLAC, Nashville.

No joy hearing it from that distance, only WSYR-FM, Vero Beach (COL = Gifford) "Star 94-7" was audible till a little past Bartow on the return drive.

TerryKay,
Actually I have never heard either their station or the translator. I very rarely get south of the Skyway bridge!

As for WWBC they get the translator because they are a daytimer, the primary reason the AM translator rule was created. They do have some PSSA power, about enough to light a lightbulb, but NO PSRA except in June with 10 big watts at 6am- whoo hoo! But I think they got short changed on the translator with only 30 watts covering a very small part of their daytime footprint.

Not familiar with WSYR. I love to DX when driving but it drives my wife nuts, so unless she has her iPOD plugged in (I bought her a very nice set of headphones to help block out the noise) I cant tune the dial on road trips. BTW love Bok Tower.