Anyone remember WJVS 88.3?

[microbob]

Did Scarlet Oaks Vocational school turn in the stations license? They used to broadcast between 8AM and 3.45PM.

 

[88.9 Miracle]

They are still on the air.

 

[microbob]

It seems like when I try to hear them, they are not broadcasting.

 

[techie2]

Did they shut it down? The tower used to be next to the building but it seems to be missing from the Google sat photos and street view.

 

[microbob]

Google maps is showing no tower just a Parking lot were their tower is

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=39.28917,+-84.41444+(WJVS-FM)&om=1

Bing shows a tower on Aerial view.

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=39.28917%2c+-84.41444+(WJVS-FM)&mkt=en-US&FORM=BYFD#

 

[FRR]

I talked with Great Oaks today, about another matter, and happened to ask if they were still broadcasting. Yes, during school hours only. The tower was actually moved to the roof. Apparently with the new technology the big tower was no longer needed.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

I left there in 1977 but did JVS stand for Joint Vocational School at the time?

 

[exradio]

Not that Bing Maps Photos are the clearest, but I don't see anything on the roof, no matter how hard I squint.

When I go to the FCC website, I don't see an application for a facilities change, no matter how hard I squint.

I also don't see them on the silent stations list.

FCC plot based on being 30 meters on top of tower already shows a severely warped signal pattern due to failure to top nearby hills. Lower antenna faces the additional challenge of clearing nearby buildings.

Going silent w/o notifying the FCC OR changing facilities without applying were both violations, I thought. Perhaps these were done but not reflected on FCC site.

Why isn't the co-channel station applying for fulltime use of the channel?

Kind of disturbing that this tower is knocked down, replaced with parking, and this happens long enough ago that it is currently reflected in Google Street View and Bing aerial maps, yet no one seems to have made note of it on the internet until this thread.

 

[almaniac27]

Kind of disturbing that this tower is knocked down, replaced with parking, and this happens long enough ago that it is currently reflected in Google Street View and Bing aerial maps, yet no one seems to have made note of it on the internet until this thread.

I'm trying to come up with the general timeframe for when the tower was dismantled. My best guess is summer or fall 2007. I used to drive on that stretch of 275 on my way to school and I think it was around then I noticed it wasn't there anymore.

 

[ToddyO]

WJVS is a sharetime. It shares the assigned frequency with station WAIF (almost 8 years of that disclaimer is wedged/engrained into my head).

It saddened me to see the tower missing. When the exciter was replaced in the late 80's, the signal strength reduced by 2/3rd. As I recall, the signal was more north-south, protecting WMUB and whatever station was on 88.1. The signal, using an old WGUC exciter, could be heard from Dry Ridge to Middletown, from Milford to Colerain. Now, it's lucky you can hear it on Reed Hartman. Very sad! They did go stereo. I wonder what transmitter they are using. The Collins (??) model they had, from day one, was serial number 1.

 

[blindowl1234]

I think the Collins was replaced some years ago something to do with PCB's...I was a student there from 75-77. I remember the day JVS went on the air like it was yesterday. Had a decent signal back then too. Earl Forste the instructor of the broadcast arts class passed away a number of years ago I believe.....Blind

 

[Tri-State Media]

Not that Bing Maps Photos are the clearest, but I don't see anything on the roof, no matter how hard I squint. 

When I go to the FCC website, I don't see an application for a facilities change, no matter how hard I squint.

I also don't see them on the silent stations list.

FCC plot based on being 30 meters on top of tower already shows a severely warped signal pattern due to failure to top nearby hills.  Lower antenna faces the additional challenge of clearing nearby buildings.

Going silent w/o notifying the FCC OR changing facilities without applying were both violations, I thought.  Perhaps these were done but not reflected on FCC site.

Why isn't the co-channel station applying for fulltime use of the channel?

Kind of disturbing that this tower is knocked down, replaced with parking, and this happens long enough ago that it is currently reflected in Google Street View and Bing aerial maps, yet no one seems to have made note of it on the internet until this thread.

That's very interesting. I don't see a facility change application. And I looked. I don't even remember a tower being there last time I was in the area, late last year.

I have to wonder if they're using some sort of STL at Great Oaks, to then feed WAIF's transmitter in Walnut Hills? (It's located at Taft and Victory Parkway, on the apartment complex there.) It wouldn't surprise me. It's still illegal if Great Oaks didn't file the application, but that's likely what they're doing.