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Former 97 WFOX jocks.

Wide 107 was also a lot easier to pick up (vs. FOX) back in the day...there was really nothing on the ATL dial north of V-103 (104.1 was still in LaGrange, 104.7 was still in Athens, 105.7 was still in Canton on 105.5 (although IIRC the old AJC radio dial log at the time reported WCHK 105.5 as the highest-frequency FM in ATL, you were lucky to pick it up south or east of Cobb) , 106.1 was still in Toccoa, 105.3 didn't exist, and I don't think either of the Radio One 107.x stations existed either (107.9 might have on the southside).

97 Fox, OTOH, was next to impossible to pick up without a good differentiating tuner (such as an analog car radio or digital tuner). A cheaper set with AFC would smear 96 Rock over Fox every time unless you had a good antenna or made mods to it.
 
I guess I will ride around Gainesville and see if I can find this Junkyard with the FOX tower in it on the southside of town. Maybe Jay Andrews Will read this and be able to tell me exactly where the tower was or is.
I also Found Darlene Evans of WFOX and Power 99. She is @99.9 WKIS in MIAMI.
 
Somewhere back around 1972 while working at WRFC Athens we bought WFOX and I got to help out with their original sign on. I pulled a few airshifts and remembering driving up to Gainesville. No way could I ever find that small building which housed WFOX. Glad someone reminded me it was near that little college.
Yes, there was a small production room at WRFC was used to make the original reel to reel tapes used on WFOX. I even delivered some of these reel to reel tapes up to Gainesville as the format was sort of an automated live-assist in the very early days.

For some reason I do not believe the station originally had 100,000 watts. I thought maybe 25kw or 40kw when WRFC bought it. Once again it has been quite a while, but the station's signal did respectfully come into Athens.
 
Amazing, the amount of interest in where that old tower propagated from...

OK, starting north on 129 (Athens Highway) up that long, slow and steady grade past the 185 Pendergrass exit, the tower location was/is about 3-4 miles before you cross 985. It's to the right and down the hill just as you start to come to the peak of the ridge, at most a 1/2 mile off 129. Once you level out and see all the industrial/trucking type old line businesses adjacent to 129 you've gone too far.

Looking at Google Earth, Gaines Mill Rd and Shady Lane (which ring a bell) would have been the approximate location... looks like the junkyard has been cleared and it's turned into sub division city... I can't find a current, standing tower there today on the GE map, so it may well be gone and lost to history.
 
*Update: Looking closer at Google Earth.... On Gaines Mill Rd I see the two towers that I remember. They are indeed still standing, just to the right of Gaines Mill Rd. The first (34.275014,-83.777618) if memory serves was/is used by one of those trucking companies for two way and the second was the WFOX tower. Zoom in on GE and you'll see that one near Dennis Lane right beside Gaines Mill.
 
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