The transmitter is supposedly in Center Point near the Civitan Park. I can't hear anything but bleed over from Alt 94.9 at my QTH on Red Mountain. Can anyone confirm this station is on?
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LPFMDatabase reports WSYP-LP 95.1 is on the air as of Jan. 30
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I can confirm with reasonable certainty that WSYP-LP is on the air, though in the 90 minutes I listened, there was no station ID or announcements of any type. Just an automated, roughly 50-50 mix of R&B and reggae.
I can also reasonably state that the transmitter is not near the Civitan Park in Center Point, as I stood right in that spot. It may be further south, near Polly Reed Road.
I managed to hear the signal all the way down the Parkway, down I-59 to US-31, and finally losing it to Alt-94.9 bleedover near the Vulcan Statue.
I can also reasonably state that the transmitter is not near the Civitan Park in Center Point, as I stood right in that spot. It may be further south, near Polly Reed Road.
I managed to hear the signal all the way down the Parkway, down I-59 to US-31, and finally losing it to Alt-94.9 bleedover near the Vulcan Statue.
Well... ;-)
I'm just going by RecNet's information. They have the tower pinpointed to the middle of 23rd Avenue. I can't get the FCC's FM Query to load right now. While I can assume those coordinates may be a little bit off, there is simply no tower near there.
The signal on a fairly sensitive MP3 player with a FM radio (I was trying to record a TOH ID) was weak and fluttered at the park but stabilized further south.
Rats… I had the same problem with the FCC's databases, none of them work at the moment.
Why do I have this silly feeling that when they applied for the station, they just used the default coordinates that a map program would bring up, which would be "dead center" in the middle of town? You don't get more dead-center in Center Point than that intersection according to Google Maps. In fact, an A/C service company's little place pin sits at that intersection because Google doesn't have the address for the company.
Considering the terrain of the area, I bet it's either on the short tower behind the Center Point Fire Department, or maybe on the monopole cell phone tower just south of Handy TV. Or maybe even further south. Sankofa doesn't publish any kind of address beyond a PO Box on their website, but I suppose if there's some sort of youth center they own in the area, it could be there. One of the forms filed with the application listed the people involved in the incorporation of the organization, and one has an address that is west of that intersection in Center Point, so who knows… it could be at his house!
I should also mention that the signal was in mono while I was tuned in.
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