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Dose anyone have a clue when the K97.5 move from South Boston to Carrboro will be? Just a update.
 
It's always a bad idea to downgrade a station. WQOK will be downgraded from 100,000 watts at 1000 feet to 50,000 watts at 500 feet. It will move closer to the area but still will not have full market coverage. Big mistake. I wonder what idiot came up with that idea?
 
EncSpy said:
dunno..when I stumbled upon WFXC's tower in durham over the summer it looked like nothing was going on
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Uh...K97.5 and WFXC (107.1) are two different stations. Are they going to be sharing the same stick?
 
Is WQOK tower just west of Oxford?
 
The current WQOK tower is kind of west-northwest of Oxford in the community of Berea. The WFXC tower is off Wake Forest Highway (NC 98 East) near Durham's Grove Park subdivision. The two Radio One properties will indeed be on the current WFXC tower, at which time I assume WQOK will commence HD broadcasting.
 
Dose anyone know what will Radio One do with WQOK old tower once they make the move?
 
I remember either reading or hearing somewhere that the current WQOK tower is either leased or sits on leased land. If this is true, I doubt they are retaining it as a back-up site like Clear Channel did with the tall towers at Terrell's Mountain that once supported WKSL and WDCG.
 
sam1 said:
It's always a bad idea to downgrade a station. WQOK will be downgraded from 100,000 watts at 1000 feet to 50,000 watts at 500 feet. It will move closer to the area but still will not have full market coverage. Big mistake. I wonder what idiot came up with that idea?
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Well they are trying to provide a better city grade coverage into Raleigh pretty much. Since most of that signal gose into VA and points north instead of the Triangle.
 
RadioDze said:
I remember either reading or hearing somewhere that the current WQOK tower is either leased or sits on leased land. If this is true, I doubt they are retaining it as a back-up site like Clear Channel did with the tall towers at Terrell's Mountain that once supported WKSL and WDCG. 
[/quote I've always wondered if their was a repeater on top of WQOK tower? If they do dose Radio Once own it?
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Hopefully, Radio One has come to their senses and will not downgrade WQOK. As Sam1 said, it is a bad idea. Probably, R-1 is trying to save some money, but it is still a bad idea. When CC fips one of it's sticks to urban they'll wish they had that 100K..... Of course, and I know this means nothing to R-1, its unfair for southside VA to lose it's only urban (and 97.5 has always been licensed to South Boston VA.
 
It's not a real bad ieda really. They want to make sure they get a better HD radio coverage for K97.5. Thats's pretty much why they are moveing the antenna from near Oxford to Durham.
 
I drove by the WFXC tower off Wake Forest Highway (NC 98) today and noticed a new antenna at the top, one with multiple bays unlike the two-bay antenna up there for many years. There were also two bays about half way up the structure that I've never noticed before (likely a back-up). Looks as if the WQOK move is getting under way.
 
Good luck with the folks up in VA and points north, once they make the move.
 
Can anyone give me an update with the WQOK move to the WFXC tower site in Durham?  I was wondering if they are going to make the move at anytime now?
 
It seems like they have made the move. The signal seems very weak in Wilson County area, where it use to be half-way decent.
 
I've notice that hear in johnston county myself.
 
Judging by their signal strength at my location, approximately 2-3 statute miles from the WFXC tower to which WQOK is to move, I don't think they've made the move yet. They are probably operating at reduced power from their current Berea site, which "may" signal the beginning of their big move.
 
Being a native of Southside Virginia I can say that 97.5 will be missed if the signal doesn't reach the region. People on the southside can however pick up 97.1 WQMG and 102.1 WJMH out of Greensboro to serve the Urban audience.
 
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