Kiss and the fox are just awful!!!

[greg.hahn]

Didn't somebody go through a bunch of RF calculations about how the CP negatively affects all of WZKF's competitors, especially DJX?

Not that I'm aware of, but I pointed out that the co-location of 98.9 and 100.5 at the same site will create intermodulation products at 97.3 and 102.1, which are very close to WAMZ and WXMA. And since both 98.9 and 100.5 are HD, that intermodulation will spill over into 97.5 and 102.3.

It'll be interesting to see if it causes a big problem in reality, or if it's only on paper.

Having 100.5 and 970 on the same tower spells trouble for DJX out there as it is (100.5-.970=99.53). DJX was constantly getting complaints from listeners out there, however both 100.5 and 970 were operating legally. Let's hope these problems just show up on paper.

You mean 100.5 and 790. That would be 99.71.

I know you know 970 is in Jeffersonville.

 

[Bengalsfan]

I know you know 970 is in Jeffersonville.

Yep. I'm always getting those stations reversed. :

My flight instructor didn't know what those towers were, so I told him and showed him the trick that if, for whatever reason, you get totally lost, you can always dial up 970 and that will get you in the vicinity of Clark County.

 

[greg.hahn]

I know you know 970 is in Jeffersonville.

Yep. I'm always getting those stations reversed. :

My flight instructor didn't know what those towers were, so I told him and showed him the trick that if, for whatever reason, you get totally lost, you can always dial up 970 and that will get you in the vicinity of Clark County.

I don't know much about what's in an airplane, but I'm guessing there's more to it than just an AM radio receiver? Some kind of signal level meter and a directional antenna perhaps?

 

[Bengalsfan]

I don't know much about what's in an airplane, but I'm guessing there's more to it than just an AM radio receiver? Some kind of signal level meter and a directional antenna perhaps?

There is an instrument called the automatic direction finder (or ADF). It can operate in the AM broadcast band. The ADF shows the station location in relation to the aircraft. You can dial up 970kHz and it will point you to the direction of their transmitter. Or you can dial up 840kHz and it will take you to Eastwood.

It's pretty surreal flying to Lexington at night listening to the Braves on WSB (back when they were still on WSB) through the ADF.

 

[radiorob2.0]

I don't know much about what's in an airplane, but I'm guessing there's more to it than just an AM radio receiver? Some kind of signal level meter and a directional antenna perhaps?

There is an instrument called the automatic direction finder (or ADF). It can operate in the AM broadcast band. The ADF shows the station location in relation to the aircraft. You can dial up 970kHz and it will point you to the direction of their transmitter. Or you can dial up 840kHz and it will take you to Eastwood.

It's pretty surreal flying to Lexington at night listening to the Braves on WSB (back when they were still on WSB) through the ADF.

The same method was used by the Japanese to find Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. They followed the signal of KGU and/or KGMB. The Conelrad system was put in place to deter the use of an AM signal as a "beacon". The advent of ICBM's made Conelrad outdated giving way to the Emergency Broadcast System and then the Emergency Alert System.

 

[greg.hahn]

WZKF is now broadcasting from it's CP and is back on in HD.

The problem with that station has always been that their tower was 10 miles from the edge of Floyd's Knobs, and almost all of Louisville was "shadowed" by the terrain. Basically everything inside the Watterson Expressway loop was shadowed. This move fixes that. (Nobody cares about the change of city of license to Prospect, that was only done because it was necessary to have a city of license that was covered by the new site. Salem, Indiana is too far from the new site to work as the City of License.

This made a big difference for them. My antenna downtown has them about 15 dB stronger. That's about 31 times the power of what they had before- so it would have taken about 1.5 million watts from their old site to accomplish that.

They are now at about the same level downtown as DJX and the rest of the bigger signals. That's a pretty big deal.

 

[WildcatGuy]

They are now at about the same level downtown as DJX and the rest of the bigger signals. That's a pretty big deal.

Even if the ratings don't pop immediately, it looks like they have already improved the asset value of the 98.9 facility.