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FM antenna on a short tower near Southaven?

tomservo

tomservo

The last time I was going to Memphis up I-55 from Batesville, I noticed a short tower on the west side of the interstate that appeared to have a 3-bay FM antenna on it. Can anyone tell me who's using this, if anyone?

I did a search on Radio-Locator, but there's no one whose site is that close to the interstate. It's somewhere south of Southaven, north of Hernado. I think it's north of the new I-69 interchange, and south of the big weather radar "golf ball" on the same side of the highway...
 
about 2 miles south of the Hernando Exit is the former TX site of WVIM located just off the interstate 2 the west shadowing a little white house on a hill.

The tower is only a few years old as the raised it up some from the previous 300ft tower that was there.....

WVIM was 2700 watts on the 300 foot tower and I think 3400 at just under 400ft on the newer tower... The site they now occupy is 2 miles NW of the old off site... just off HWY 51 on the south side of Hernando
 
That's it exactly. :)

I was wonderin' why it wasn't showing up on any of my searches! Today I actually drove down to the little house since I was in the area (unexpectedly). Sure enough, it says "FM 95" on the front.

I've found a few more of these "mystery towers" since I've been living here. One's not too far from the two WVIM towers off Ranch Road, and one's at the Grenada/Carroll County line off Hwy 8.

That second one had me pretty perplexed because a tower search site I found and lost a while back listed it as being owned by T-Mobile, who doesn't have towers in that area. It's just an empty tower with poor lighting. The FCC shows a CP for WGNL/104.3 from Greenwood to move here, though.
 
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