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jabba17 said:
IIRC There was a rumor that now the ownership of WGUN is settled they were to be working on getting 25KW at night. The 1010 in Ashville ( COL Black Mountian NC) going Class D, might allow a 3 tower array near Cartersville to cover most of the market at night, but with the poor soil conductivity it might take 50 KW for an "city grade" to cover Atlanta at night (if that would even work).
It might work but I doubt that would be a signal only covering the southern half of the market. IMHO to make it worth the money involved, the nighttime signal has to cover the Cartersville I 75 corridor, Canton, Douglas county, least Sugar Hill if not Gainsville. This is a Canadian Channel at night so very limited wattage north will be allowed and you have to protect 1010 WINS in New York City, WJXL Jacksonville FL:
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WJXL-AM
Looking to the FCC data on this channel:
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/a...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9
I can not find any stations in SC, so the signal most likely will have to go east at night. There are Atlanta AM signals at night covering south of Roswell. Besides WSB there are not a strong Atlanta signals covering the northern suburbs at night. It would be cheaper to acquire a good translator (if one is available). I am assuming all the really good ones are gone so with land prices depressed in Atlanta I sure they could find some bank owned property wet of town that will would work. While we are spending other people's money could 1060 WKNG be improved. Could they avoid 1060 KWY Philly, Titusville FL and New Orleans at night.
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WJXL-AM
Looking to the FCC data on this channel:
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/a...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9
I can not find any stations in SC, so the signal most likely will have to go east at night. There are Atlanta AM signals at night covering south of Roswell. Besides WSB there are not a strong Atlanta signals covering the northern suburbs at night. It would be cheaper to acquire a good translator (if one is available). I am assuming all the really good ones are gone so with land prices depressed in Atlanta I sure they could find some bank owned property wet of town that will would work. While we are spending other people's money could 1060 WKNG be improved. Could they avoid 1060 KWY Philly, Titusville FL and New Orleans at night.
BarryATL said:
I wonder if they were running the 5 KW (critical hours) instead of 50 KW, buy mistake or to repair something?
secondchoice said:
When I was listening it was not during critical hours. My thoughts were what kind of tower efficiency they had. Feeding 50 kw into a quarter wave tower at 1060 does not produce much of a signal... but, I am too lazy to read through all of the FCC applications to figure out what they have.
When I was there, they had a 500 watt 6 AM presunrise. According to the FCC website they have a 91 meter 114 degree electrical height antenna not great but at least 90 degrees. They upgraded around 2007 to 50 KW. Their grounding system must have seriously deteriorated, or the feed-line / ATU has serious issues to not have a signal in Bremen.
How many markets are there without a station carrying Coast To Coast AM?!?
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trusty said:
Chicago doesn't carry C2C
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