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FM Bandscan - Gaffney SC

Wow, I can't believe the beautiful music/religious station at 94.5 is gone! I guess it went ownership change...? (Of course, I am not a fan of such format.)
 
ddsparxx said:
Wow, I can't believe the beautiful music/religious station at 94.5 is gone! I guess it went ownership change...? (Of course, I am not a fan of such format.)
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Yes, Salem Communications took over the former 94.5 WMUU from Bob Jones University.
It's now conservative talk radio, competing with the local 106.3 WYRD over here.

In the bandscan I'm surprised I was able to hear 90.3 WRBK so well,
usually it doesn't make it up here at all due to 90.1 WEPR in Greenville...
100.9 also doesn't usually make it here at all.

It can be a toss up on 91.9, I can get either WKRI Cokesbury or WRCM near Charlotte.
Also I didn't get 97.1 W246BU Spartanburg on the bandscan
but usually that makes it here good as well.

I'm about 5 miles west of Gaffney SC.
 
Upstate South Carolina is also home to one of the few (if not the only) examples of grandfathered short spacing in Zone II. WTPT (93.3) and WFBC (93.7) are both maximum Class C facilities and are less than 25 miles apart. Normally, second adjacent Class C stations have to be close to 70 miles apart.
 
We also have a close third-adjacent pair with WSSL 100.5 and WROQ 101.1 at less than 15 miles. Up the road in Charlotte co-sited 95.1 and 96.1 are only 10-15 miles from 95.7. All are C, C0, or C1 stations.
 
My favorite example of short spacing around here is the 104.7s in Charlotte (WKQC)
and Columbia (WNOK) at only about75 miles apart (Class C0 & C1) and both stations run HD.
At my house WNOK can easily mess up WKQC even with little or no tropo.
 
I didn't know about the two 100kW 104.7s within 80 miles of each other.
Some favorite short spacings of mine:
The 94.5s in Milwaukee (B), Holland (B), and Mt. Pleasant (C1). Milwaukee and Mt. Pleasant are barely spaced legally, and yet they managed to squeeze in a full power 94.5 between the two in Holland/Grand Rapids
The 105.7s in Baltimore and York (both Class B) located less than 50 miles from each other.
The 96.1s in Holland (B) and Bay City (C0)
106.9 in Milwaukee being shoehorned in between a 106.9 in Muskegon and a 106.7 north of Chicago
Detroit and Cleveland sharing several frequencies despite being less than 100 miles from each other
97.9 in Grand Rapids being shoehorned in between Chicago and Detroit
 
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