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Lenoir Rhyne University FM Station

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Seems that everyone has gone for the holiday, and left the transmitter on with dead air.

Is that legal under current regulations? I have been out of radio long enough that I don't know what has changed and what has not.

I don't know where their transmitter actually is located, but I picked up the dead air this morning all the way to Statesville, so I am sure it is not just the exciter left on.

I listened across the top of an hour and of course there also was not a station ID either. Is that also legal?

I discovered it since they are on on 99.3 same as WBT-FM, and I have a preset on that since I use it a lot at night when I am not in Hickory.
 
60 views and no replies?

Does that mean nobody knows, or nobody cares?

I guess nobody cares ???
 
No TOH ID - rule violation no. 1.
No operator on duty - rule violation no. 2.
Makes one wonder if they are at the licensed power, on frequency, EAS operating correctly, public file in order, tower lit, .............

You are right - nobody cares.
 
ncradioeng said:
You are right - nobody cares.
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Not to mention this is the sorriest excuse for a radio station I have ever heard. Total lack of any professionalism

One night last spring for over 20 minutes all they had on the air was a play by play wannabe doing a mike check and making small talk with the board op. Whatever was supposed to be on the air was not there.
 
Jim said:
I care! I just did not know the answer. Here is the supposed tower location. If you hit streetview, all you see is a bunch of houses. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=35.74250,+-81.33444+(WLRZ-FM)&om=1
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That location is either on or very close to the campus. To the right and south of the marker is the football field and other college buildings. I suspected the tower location was on campus and probably not very high because their signal does not go very far, and even where you can hear it, it constantly drops out as you pass buildings or go over the top or a hill.

Still it is mainly designed to serve the campus I presume, so that probably does not matter to them, they probably have a good signal over the whole campus.
 
It's an LPFM station. These are licensed to have an effective coverage area reaching out 3-1/2 miles. (Your Mileage May Vary.)

They have a tower that puts the antenna 82 feet above ground, but they are on high ground so the antenna is assumed to be 228 feet above the average terrain that surrounds them. This antenna height limits them to 18 watts of radiated power.

The current MAXIMUM power for an LPFM is 100 watts and your antenna cannot be more than 100 feet above average terrain at that power output.
 
Perhaps they could team up with WHKY TV. Sounds like a good fit.
 
vchimpanzee said:
They must not have been on very long.

In the 1980s I remember hearing what is now WBT-FM in Hickory.
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They CAN'T have been on very long. They are LPFM... a program which was approved maybe 8 years ago. Most LPFMS have only been operatiing about 3 to 5 years now.

It would be intereting to know what date the FIRST LPFM actually went on the air.
 
Anybody remember the LPFM Calvin had on in Charlotte? I think it was 98.7. He had several transmitters around town. One of them was on a building on Sharon Amity near Randolph Rd.

He ran business news and once in awhile some music. I guess he couldn't get sponsors to keep it going or maybe that's when he started having some health issues?
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Anybody remember the LPFM Calvin had on in Charlotte? I think it was 98.7. He had several transmitters around town. One of them was on a building on Sharon Amity near Randolph Rd.

He ran business news and once in awhile some music. I guess he couldn't get sponsors to keep it going or maybe that's when he started having some health issues?
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I think that is where WNCW has their translator antenna today.
 
Jim said:
Mike Sheridan said:
Anybody remember the LPFM Calvin had on in Charlotte? I think it was 98.7. He had several transmitters around town. One of them was on a building on Sharon Amity near Randolph Rd.

He ran business news and once in awhile some music. I guess he couldn't get sponsors to keep it going or maybe that's when he started having some health issues?
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I think that is where WNCW has their translator antenna today.
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WNCW no longer has a translator in Charlotte. Mike, are you referring to "Cotswold Community Radio?"
 
wncc said:
Jim said:
Mike Sheridan said:
Anybody remember the LPFM Calvin had on in Charlotte? I think it was 98.7. He had several transmitters around town. One of them was on a building on Sharon Amity near Randolph Rd.

He ran business news and once in awhile some music. I guess he couldn't get sponsors to keep it going or maybe that's when he started having some health issues?
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I think that is where WNCW has their translator antenna today.
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WNCW no longer has a translator in Charlotte. Mike, are you referring to "Cotswold Community Radio?"
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When did they shut it off? I know they had moved it from 100.7 to 100.3 when Praise 100.9 moved in. Both translators were useless IMHO.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
vchimpanzee said:
They must not have been on very long.

In the 1980s I remember hearing what is now WBT-FM in Hickory.
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They CAN'T have been on very long. They are LPFM... a program which was approved maybe 8 years ago. Most LPFMS have only been operatiing about 3 to 5 years now.

It would be intereting to know what date the FIRST LPFM actually went on the air.
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I remember listening to a Christian station for Christmas music and losing its signal to an LFPM way back in 1995 or so. No, wait, I was listening to a new station on the same frequency as the LPFM. The Christian station hadn't even signed on because I was hearing another station on THAT frequency.

There was a daytime-only AM in another location airing the same programming as the LFPM.

There was another LFPM in the town, a college station. It's off the air now. And it was NOT on one of the public radio frequencies. In fact, there was an LFPM college station on one of the regular frequencies way back in the 1980s. It kept me from listening to a station I wanted to hear.
 
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