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Is Beasley gearing 99.5 for a move in with the new antenna/tower

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Just passed the WJBR antenna site on Naamans Road, there is a new tower, much higher than the 500' old one, that had the 5 bay on the top. Now there stands in its place a new tower, looks around 700' or so, not painted, the new type with the silver look, no red beacons, just white strobes. Their is a new antenna for WJBR, a large six bay, with large ball shapped bays, just like WMGM's, about half way up, so I would imagine they are at 400', there are also many antennas and microwaves on the new tower. Was this improvement planned by the old owners or is Beasley waiting to launch some new format and boost the signal into the Philly metro. These bays can be moved to the top of the tower which would make the signal ease into Philly. I checked Radio Info and this change is not listed, its the same 50kw 499'. Does anyone see a difference in signal strength or know whats going on, I would bet on a signal increase into Philly.
 
The new tower was built to accommodate new land mobile tenants at the top. WJBR's main antenna remains at the same elevation, that's why you've seen no change in power or HAAT in the FCC database. The pattern may have improved slightly towards Philadelphia as a result of a change in the antenna bay mounting, but Beasley is still focusing on Delaware as the primary market.

By the way, the tower site is still owned by one of the previous licensees, Beasley only leases space there.
 
There still should of been a coordinate change, ever so slightly, only if the new tower was built on the exact same spot as the old one there would be no change, which could of not been possible. When WURD erected the two stand alones on the same spot as the former three tower array which fell down the coordinates changed a degree and was documented on the FCC data base.
 
If the new tower was installed within a second of the previous coordinates (and I believe it was, at about 20 feet away) then the licensed lat/lon would probably not need correction. However, Beasley should still file a 302 to show the increase in overall tower height and reference the new Antenna Structure Registration number. As far as I can tell, this hasn't been filed yet.

AM coordinates are usually based on the center point of the array -- so in WURD's case, this would have shifted significantly when they dropped one tower from the original three in-line array.
 
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