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Augusta FCC cancels Warrenton FM

Oh heck... This thread is like a dumping ground for CSRA radio activity. Back to WACG...

MediaMan said:
Speaking of WACG-FM now owned by GPB Radio. Their transmitter site is actually on one of the Augusta TV towers across the river in SC so at least half the signal is over SC. Back in 2009, WACG moved to the GPB TV tower near Wrens. While it placed most of the signal inside the state of Georgia and despite maps showing city grade coverage across Augusta, they got so many signal complaints in Augusta, the signal was moved back to the TV tower. A lot of the upper income residential and commercial office areas of Augusta where GPB probably has its listener base sit down in the Savannah River valley and a FM signal tends to "ride over" the city if it is coming in from the west.

Recently GPB filed to move back to the Wrens TV tower. This time the signal will be directional to protect a FM permit near Vidalia and another permit at Lincolnton filed the same day to move closer to Augusta making both moves mutually exclusive to each other so for either to be built, the two parties will have to reach some sort of settlement or find a technical flaw in the applications to have it dismissed.
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WACG filed the License To Cover today on their GPB TV Wrens tower move. I guess GPB wanted everything on Georgia soil with its lower rent. I bet listener complaints will follow along with that planned WILH move-in/upgrade.

More interesting though is the WACG Digital Notification paperwork. Asymmetric!

Analog (kW): 5.10 Digital (kW): 0.383 Digital upper sideband (kW): 0.256 Digital lower sideband (kW): 0.128
Digital sideband power relative to analog upper sideband (dBc): -13 Digital sideband power relative to analog lower sideband (dBc): -16
 


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