Elizabethtown translator

[toddalcorn]

I'm perplexed at the translator at 92.9. The station in Lexington has PLENTY of signal until the translator overtakes it. It's a simulcast of 98.3 by the way. Traveling around Etown, the Lexington station causes problems with the translator in certain areas of town and actually takes back over as I headed away from town toward Louisville. The whole thing seems a waste to me and ruins WVLK in a very listenable area.

 

[lanceventa]

Elizabethtown is way beyond WVLK-FM's protected contour. Stations only have protection from translators up to their 45 dbu contour and that ends about 20 miles east of there.

 

[KYradioJake]

Elizabethtown is way beyond WVLK-FM's protected contour. Stations only have protection from translators up to their 45 dbu contour and that ends about 20 miles east of there.

I think the OP's point was that the translator for WQXE on 92.9 in E-town has been a waste of a signal since it signed on. He simply pointed out that WVLK used to be listenable in that area of the state until the translator signed on, which is true. WQXE's 70 dBu contour encompasses the W225BS 70 dBu ENTIRELY and almost completely encompasses its 60 dBu. I've always found the existence of certain translators to be quite comical, but this one in particular has been the only one that has truly baffled me. There's also one on 104.5 in E-town that simulcasts WULF, which also has no problem covering the area the translator is meant to "fill in".

 

[gr8oldies]

I think the OP's point was that the translator for WQXE on 92.9 in E-town has been a waste of a signal since it signed on. He simply pointed out that WVLK used to be listenable in that area of the state until the translator signed on, which is true. WQXE's 70 dBu contour encompasses the W225BS 70 dBu ENTIRELY and almost completely encompasses its 60 dBu. I've always found the existence of certain translators to be quite comical, but this one in particular has been the only one that has truly baffled me. There's also one on 104.5 in E-town that simulcasts WULF, which also has no problem covering the area the translator is meant to "fill in".

Some translators work on paper but not in the real world. Our Knoxville TN situation with translators on 101.5 sounds like your E-Town situation. WQUT Johnson City had been listenable all over the market, a translator was approved. Unless you were literally under the tower you would get interference from WQUT. After a couple of years, the translator owner found somewhere else to play.

 

[jb_ky]

92.9 WVLK is a blow torch. Sounds like when WSGS was coming into Lexington pretty well on 101.1 and WVLK-AM put an FM translator on 101.1. They ended up moving to 97.3 but living on the south side of Lexington I hear WJSN 97.3 trying to take over the WVLK translator.

Guess that is why WLAP-AM decided to abandon the 101.1 translators as well. Sorry got off topic.

 

[gr8oldies]

92.9 WVLK is a blow torch. Sounds like when WSGS was coming into Lexington pretty well on 101.1 and WVLK-AM put an FM translator on 101.1. They ended up moving to 97.3 but living on the south side of Lexington I hear WJSN 97.3 trying to take over the WVLK translator.

Guess that is why WLAP-AM decided to abandon the 101.1 translators as well. Sorry got off topic.

That was because of WSGS distant listener complaints (apparently that doesn't work anymore)

 

[toddalcorn]

92.9 WVLK is a blow torch. Sounds like when WSGS was coming into Lexington pretty well on 101.1 and WVLK-AM put an FM translator on 101.1. They ended up moving to 97.3 but living on the south side of Lexington I hear WJSN 97.3 trying to take over the WVLK translator.
Guess that is why WLAP-AM decided to abandon the 101.1 translators as well. Sorry got off topic.