Noticed last night around midnight 99.3 was completely off the air. By early morning, the signal was clear and strong here in the Stone Mountain / Lithonia area. Traveled to the South side to Southlake Mall and Stockbridge today and still no static, all clear!
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99.3 Now Covers The East and South Side!
- Thread starter ShawtyBlack_ATL
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They had a CP to move to the American Tower site off I-20 so they must have completed the move.
oh oh, static and 99.3 WCON cutting in and out around the Stone Mountain, Tucker area. Also noticed 94.5 and 102.9 getting static too.
WCON-FM on 99.3 got their permit to increase to 100KW a week or so ago. There was an article in the Cornelia newspaper last week about the power increase and the owners stating they plan to have it on air by mid 2015. If you think there is interference between WDUN-FM on 102.9 and the 102.9 translator in Atlanta, you ain't heard nothing yet. I'd expect the owners of WCON-FM to be a lot more aggressive about having that interference on their signal than WDUN-FM may have been.
99.3 would match up well with one of the southwestern stations (105.3, 93.3, or 104.1). 100kW will get WCON into north Fulton, north DeKalb, and north Atlanta, and that station will be worth too much to put up with any translator interference.
How far south could they move their tower without having to deal with 99.7's third adjacent? Except for a bunch of translators (which are not protected) and WKCN Fort Benning South GA and WDEN 99.1 Macon there doesn't seem to be a lot of stations southwest of the present tower site on 99.1, 99.3 or 99.5.
99.7 would be a second-adjacent.
There is WWGA on 98.9, a class A out of Tallapoosa which is too far out of range for any reasonably possible tower move given 99.7, and C3 WNGH Chatsworth which might actually benefit from a WCON move towards ATL, depending on how far south they go. Other than that, really the only constraints of a tower move would be WWWQ and maybe WDEN, not counting the translators that don't count.
The current CP is to go to 100k on the existing tower, and move from a C2 to a C1. That alone may knock some translators off the air.
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