99.3 WHB translator in KC

[AnyHuman]

WHB only has about 2 months left for this one to build or lose it.

https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=k257gt&ccode=1&city=&state=&country=US&zip=&arn=&party=&lmspf=&lmspl=&party_type=LICEN&latd=&lond=&lang=en

Any status updates? I can hear KCTO's FM Spanish translator at 99.3 here right now, not sure how the new one will do with this Spanish one on.

 

[Kent]

You won’t likely hear it where you are.

810 is noisy at night in that area, which is why KCMO wanted to swap with 710 almost a quarter century ago. That translator is likely designed to help with those nighttime signal problems. Also possible is that WHB won’t build it at all. That area is growing, but hardly anybody lives there. The two largest cities in that translator's 60 dBu signal contour don’t even have 13,000 people combined.

 

[AnyHuman]

They ended up not getting it on. It's been deleted by the FCC.

https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=202955

 

[kfbkfb]

IIRC, 810 AM lowered their night power from 10kW to 5kW some time ago, could they raise it to 10kW again to (help?) night reception?


Kirk Bayne

 

[Kent]

IIRC, 810 AM lowered their night power from 10kW to 5kW some time ago, could they raise it to 10kW again to (help?) night reception?

Pretty sure it’s been 5kw for at least the last 30 years.

You probably already know its nighttime pattern essentially looks like a peanut. I was listening to the Alabama/Cincinnati game yesterday on WHB in Columbia, and it was gone when it shifted to its nighttime signal. I heard a country station and what I assume was WGY battling it out on 810 when it switched. My understanding is that it has to protect WGY to the east, but I don’t know who it protects out west. Hard to say if it could make any changes to improve the nighttime signal, but it would still have to protect WGY at least.

 

[Kent]

BTW - I'm guessing WHB protects KGO to the west. Don’t know why that slipped my mind earlier.

 

[ArizonaBossJock]

Pretty sure it’s been 5kw for at least the last 30 years.

You probably already know its nighttime pattern essentially looks like a peanut. I was listening to the Alabama/Cincinnati game yesterday on WHB in Columbia, and it was gone when it shifted to its nighttime signal. I heard a country station and what I assume was WGY battling it out on 810 when it switched. My understanding is that it has to protect WGY to the east, but I don’t know who it protects out west. Hard to say if it could make any changes to improve the nighttime signal, but it would still have to protect WGY at least.

I worked at KCMO when the night pattern and power were changed (1979). The original tower array was 5 in line towers which directed the southern lobe to the south-southeast and placed a serious null in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. The two western most towers were repositioned to the north slightly. This swung the null and filled it to provide better western coverage. The original pattern was nulled to the south and west and was protecting WGY and KGO in addition to a border blaster on 800 in Juarez and an 820 in Dallas. The power was reduced to 5kW at night After the modification. Before the pattern mod, you couldn’t hear the station at night in Olathe.