Was driving around today and heard a new signal on 92.7 fm They're stunting with a new format, it's licensed to Beverly Beach north of Flagler Beach. It's loud and clear here in Daytona Beach and is like a Variety Hits format.
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NO. They are NOT Stunting. Their doing radio propagation testing and asking for e-mails from anyone who can hear the station. Although I was able to pick up this station in Daytona Beach & Holly Hill it is NOT a City Grade signal.They do however include Ormond Beach in their ID (which is WISHFUL THINKING if you check the link to the contour map). This 92.7 is the former WROO.pocket-radio said:
Their only real comptition is probably WHOG (Ormond by the sea).
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM1287274.html
Probably testing at low wattage. Others on radio info say they'll be up and running with full power within a week.
Coverage map doesn't really mean much!
Coverage map doesn't really mean much!
pocket-radio said:
They are directional and under the rules, program test authority is not automatic. Therefore, they have to run at half power until they receive program test authority from the FCC which can take up to two weeks. Only with PTA can a station start regular programming. Until then, a station can be run under engineering test authority which is half power, no commercials and, I believe, a legal ID every 15 minutes.
As far as the FCC 60 dbu (1 mv/m) contour map referenced above, stations in Florida typically outplay their contours by about 20% because the FCC 50/50 curves used to produce the contour are based on a terrain roughness of 90 feet in a tenth of a mile. Terrain roughness in coastal Florida is probably closer to 20 feet, if that-- However, being directional, the patterned is measured at peak value of the envelope and one can never manufacture an antenna that will completely fill the envelope without exceeding it somewhere along the arc. Long story short, directional FM and TV's generally under perform any predicted coverage and I wouldn't look for much of an improvement of 92.7 at full power over what they have running currently.
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Parttimer said:
Why?
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$7.24 an hour is the going pay rate.radioman148 said:
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MN Maniac
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I'm guessing the directional pattern is due to required protection to WMFQ-92.9-Ocala (?)
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jaguar922
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Anyone know where the tower is located? How tall is it and what power will they be running? Just curious
MN Maniac said:
WMFQ-FM 92.9 C2 and its 50kw ND signal is exactly why WBHQ-FM 92.7 A is operating with a directional antenna pattern... In fact WMFQ and WBHQ, when it was WKKJ, were slightly short spaced when WMFQ was on co-channel 92.7 A...
Mark Tillery
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WELE-AM 1380
Ormond Beach - Daytona
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Probably not a big deal, though, since the overlap fell out in the middle of the national forest
When I worked at WOCA/WMFQ, Bob Hauck told me the story about how the FM came to be. How 102.3 was originally allocated to Ocala, then moved to Dunnellon. So, Bob petitioned the FCC for 92.7 as a replacement allocation to Ocala.
WMFQ has to be at or near minimum spacing to Valdosta. Anytime there's a good band opening from the north, WMFQ gets taken out of Gainesville by WAAC.
When I worked at WOCA/WMFQ, Bob Hauck told me the story about how the FM came to be. How 102.3 was originally allocated to Ocala, then moved to Dunnellon. So, Bob petitioned the FCC for 92.7 as a replacement allocation to Ocala.
WMFQ has to be at or near minimum spacing to Valdosta. Anytime there's a good band opening from the north, WMFQ gets taken out of Gainesville by WAAC.
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Not as good a signal even in Ormond I hear from some guys I know there nevermind Daytona Beach. The buyers were hoping for much better I'm sure. But, now the owner has two stations in Flagler, this one and NZF the AM, which will probably go Spanish soon.
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