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why cant the london corbin area recieve any lex radio stations is it power limits and could this change ??<P ID="signature">______________
Shawn Cowden</P>
Shawn Cowden</P>
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> why cant the london corbin area recieve any lex radio
> stations is it power limits and could this change ??
Lexington and Louisville stations must protect each other, as well as stations in Cincinnati, Elizabethtown, Nashville, Bowling Green, Indianapolis, Knoxville, etc. Lexington is just simply too close to too many other cities for everything to be a flamethrower. The 50kw & 100kw stations (WLXX, WBUL, WMXL) can reach points that far south, but that's still 60 to 75 miles away as the crow files.
The only way for this to change would be for a station to re-license itself to a place between Lexington and London with a very strong signal (25,000 watts minimum, probably 50,000 to have a good signal. A station in Berea or Stanford running 50,000 watts would put a good signal in both Lexington and London.
WUKY (whose tower is in Garrard County) comes close to covering Lexington, Louisville, Somerset, and London, but the tower needs to be further west to properly cover Louisville and further south to cover London with a local or distant-grade signal.<P ID="signature">______________
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> stations is it power limits and could this change ??
Lexington and Louisville stations must protect each other, as well as stations in Cincinnati, Elizabethtown, Nashville, Bowling Green, Indianapolis, Knoxville, etc. Lexington is just simply too close to too many other cities for everything to be a flamethrower. The 50kw & 100kw stations (WLXX, WBUL, WMXL) can reach points that far south, but that's still 60 to 75 miles away as the crow files.
The only way for this to change would be for a station to re-license itself to a place between Lexington and London with a very strong signal (25,000 watts minimum, probably 50,000 to have a good signal. A station in Berea or Stanford running 50,000 watts would put a good signal in both Lexington and London.
WUKY (whose tower is in Garrard County) comes close to covering Lexington, Louisville, Somerset, and London, but the tower needs to be further west to properly cover Louisville and further south to cover London with a local or distant-grade signal.<P ID="signature">______________
I think people in London listened to the old WLAP-FM Lexington when it was top 40, after whatever top 40 station they had in Corbin got ruined in the '80s. I think Corbin did have its own top 40 up until about 1989.
(Also, I don't know what happened with my previous message here. Somehow I ended up posting a blank message.)
(Also, I don't know what happened with my previous message here. Somehow I ended up posting a blank message.)
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> why cant the london corbin area recieve any lex radio
> stations is it power limits and could this change ??
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hello shawn.. its what they said. its got to do with it being to close to other stations. you can listen to lexington stuff in london. here in manchester, i have gotten 98.1, and 100.1, and 92.9 but 100.1 is a little harder to pick up without a decent antenna. another factor, is where you live at in the london corbin, manchester area... its harder to receive some stations in manchester due to the mountains. in london and corbin, its a little more open. so it may be a little easier to hear them there with the right antenna. 73 shawn, hope that answers your question.
> stations is it power limits and could this change ??
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hello shawn.. its what they said. its got to do with it being to close to other stations. you can listen to lexington stuff in london. here in manchester, i have gotten 98.1, and 100.1, and 92.9 but 100.1 is a little harder to pick up without a decent antenna. another factor, is where you live at in the london corbin, manchester area... its harder to receive some stations in manchester due to the mountains. in london and corbin, its a little more open. so it may be a little easier to hear them there with the right antenna. 73 shawn, hope that answers your question.
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KG4KBU
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do i know u jack ??? u a ham ?<P ID="signature">______________
Shawn Cowden
http://www.radioreference.com</P>
Shawn Cowden
http://www.radioreference.com</P>
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dudekind_jack
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> do i know u jack ??? u a ham ?
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yep, im a ham.
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yep, im a ham.
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