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LPFM in Atlanta metro area

MRFLASHPORT

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haven't seen much lately, but noticed quite a few new applications on the ULS for LPFM's in the metro. heard an LPFM in Kennesaw going up 41 the other night on 102.1 that was playing some very old country, local sponsorship mentioned a computer store downtown. Signal got pretty weak and swapped out to an A/C station coming from Athens? maybe once I made it to Jim Owens road. So it got me to thinking, where are some other LP's in Atlanta (and no, not those translators owned by Moody Bible or whoever they are now, talking about REAL locally programmed LPFM) area and anyone listen regularly?

there are some fine examples of LPFM at it's best like http://www.roseradio.org in some parts of the country, amazed it has taken off, especially in some of our "outer" suburbs that aren't served by local radio anymore.
 
I applied for a LPFM, but have sinced divorced ,moved and such. I was told to make a change to the app, but havent done so yet.. Living in a Apartment(The sign of failure in today's society)and dont have the room to do what one would require. I have been wondering just how many Lpfm's we will have in Atlanta if any?
 
Didn't Kennesaw State University just apply for a license a while back? I think I remember a poster some six months ago mention that they were a student there and the school was working on setting up its own radio station.
 
Does Southern Polytechnic still have a LPFM station? I worked there back in '73-74.
 
see WHLE-LP. Licenced to Atlanta, owned by a church on Godby Rd (off Old National Hwy).

Drive down to Tyrone and try to listen to it. Worst audio I've ever heard, when it's not plain old dead air. I think it's only one channel going to both left and right, also.
 
FloydB said:
Didn't Kennesaw State University just apply for a license a while back? I think I remember a poster some six months ago mention that they were a student there and the school was working on setting up its own radio station.
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KSU is not applying for a license. The station will be Internet-only. Red tape keeps holding it up. It should be online in February.

I think the WGHR situation at Southern Polytechnic burnt everyone out. (WGHR 102.5 lost it's license intially when WAMJ signed on at 102.5 in 2000, then again when WGHR was at 100.7 when Q100 complained. WGHR had a class D license, which meant anyone else could shut them down. They are Internet-only now.)

The 102.1 station in Kennesaw is Part-15, not LPFM. It transmits from South Main Street at Sardis Street (below the railroad overpass), at the computer store. If you can hear it on 41 (Cobb Parkway), it may be illegal (putting out too-much power).

Thanks to our bible-thumping friends, there is a freeze on new LPFM's
 
jal41 said:
FloydB said:
Didn't Kennesaw State University just apply for a license a while back? I think I remember a poster some six months ago mention that they were a student there and the school was working on setting up its own radio station.
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KSU is not applying for a license. The station will be Internet-only. Red tape keeps holding it up. It should be online in February.
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Thanks for the update, jal. I appreciate it.
 
jal41 said:
I think the WGHR situation at Southern Polytechnic burnt everyone out. (WGHR 102.5 lost it's license intially when WAMJ signed on at 102.5 in 2000, then again when WGHR was at 100.7 when Q100 complained. WGHR had a class D license, which meant anyone else could shut them down. They are Internet-only now.)
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WGHR merely had legal threats from Q100; they still had an FCC license. All they had to do to maintain the license was to broadcast for a short period once a year, notify the FCC, then go back off the air. Maybe the FCC would have acted on their application for 101.1 by now.

Higher education administrators tend not to be very competent in overseeing FCC paperwork. For example, WUOG.
 
I was the GM for WGHR when we signed the FM on the air in 1981.. maybe 1980.. many years ago. At the time we were running a carrier current AM station at 1280 AM along with the FM signal at 16.5 watts ERP... using a 10 watt exciter as our transmitter.

ssnake is right about the admin folks. When I was at Southern Tech, Dean Smith was over the station and was wonderful about keeping up with paperwork and filing deadlines. After he retired, things were not handled so well.
 
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