Alabama applications for translators in the latest auction

[Groove1670]

The bigger issue for the WBHY AM translator that's back on the air from Daphne is going to be WRBE from Lucedale. It's just a class A but I've heard it obliterating the translator several times back when it was still on the old WABF tower in Fairhope. So I guess if conditions were right the same could happen for a similarly powered station from FWB.

Even when it's just mildly enhanced conditions at night, the dial here in central Baldwin County often gets full of competing stations. 103.1 is a good example frequency, with the Supertalk station from Pascagoula fighting it out with WZLB. It just seems to be dependent on "which way the wind blows" whether one or the other dominates. On those nights, 106.9 here is either WRNE or WRBE, never the Daphne translator.

Another translator that I think is going to be really hurt by its dial position is the one applied for WJNZ on 107.7. WFXX Georgiana really booms in here when conditions are the least bit good and I could see it really hurting reception for that station. They really need an FM outlet, though, being just a daytimer.

As I said in earlier posts. You will serve The Eastern Shore or the Mobile Metro if you have a single translator, not both. Atmospheric conditions limit coverage, and the population is too spread out.