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Name change in Morristown

Wow! Huge news. Morristown? Watched the networks tonight and not a mention. Shock.
 
Use the Digital readout on your radio. No Change to 88.1 WJCF. New Station on 88.3 that has more signal than they should. Their directional signal has been heard miles outside of the predicted pattern. Much Confusion as a result.
 
ChiefEngineer said:
New Station on 88.3 that has more signal than they should. Their directional signal has been heard miles outside of the predicted pattern. Much Confusion as a result.
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A rhetorical thought: Has anyone alerted the owners of 88.3FM, so they can have their engineering staff check on it?

Unless it's one of two groups, you can't complain about the engineering of a radio station on this board. :)

(And those two groups I'm thinking of are both commercial broadcasters!)
 
When a company installs directional bays on a station they normally check to make sure it works, once they work the directional bays should not change.

There like a B1 or so, skip could possibility make it go out of pattern I think.

Couple years ago I heard 93.1 WNOU around Moore Haven FL like a local station, 93.1 Chicago, and if I remember right 93.3 from Milwaukee WI...
 
ChiefEngineer said:
Use the Digital readout on your radio. No Change to 88.1 WJCF. New Station on 88.3 that has more signal than they should. Their directional signal has been heard miles outside of the predicted pattern. Much Confusion as a result.
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Sorry. I still have an analog radio in my car.
 
signalid said:
When a company installs directional bays on a station they normally check to make sure it works, once they work the directional bays should not change.

There like a B1 or so, skip could possibility make it go out of pattern I think.

Couple years ago I heard 93.1 WNOU around Moore Haven FL like a local station, 93.1 Chicago, and if I remember right 93.3 from Milwaukee WI...
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Tropospheric Propogation usually is short lived. In fact the antenna for WHZN is not oriented as Licensed. Their signal should end by SR9. It has been received past SR3. Metamora is further yet. South the signal is weak North it is not as strong as it should be but NE it is killer.
 
Some radio stations go out better in some directions than others, WKLU seems to get out better than it should.

If it was up to me I would ask the FCC to come out with a class BC, grandfather stations with ERP around 75k watts at 492 feet would become a class BC, new stations south of the 39.5 degree line could become a BC if they have a certain distance seperation.
 
Tropospheric Propogation usually is short lived. In fact the antenna for WHZN is not oriented as Licensed. Their signal should end by SR9. It has been received past SR3. Metamora is further yet. South the signal is weak North it is not as strong as it should be but NE it is killer.


Tropospheric Propogation usually is short lived.

I think it happens during short distances more often, they could get some bounce from the other nearby towers. Maybe there not protecting WJCF but maybe another 88.3 to the east?

That's what WJCF has translators for.
 
WHZN is SUPPOSED to protect other stations relative to the required contours on co and adjacent channels. Co means same, adjacent means up and down from the channel it is on.

Translators are irrelevant as they are on other frequencies. IE non co or adjacent.

Translators have their own spacing requirements.
 
signalid said:
Some radio stations go out better in some directions than others, WKLU seems to get out better than it should.
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Some stations are built better than others. The above mentioned station was built exceptionally well, is operating at licensed power and is modulated at 98%--strictly legal in all regards. Anyone who thinks this one gets out 'too well' needs to readjust their idea of what a well engineered Class A can do.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
signalid said:
Some radio stations go out better in some directions than others, WKLU seems to get out better than it should.
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Some stations are built better than others. The above mentioned station was built exceptionally well, is operating at licensed power and is modulated at 98%--strictly legal in all regards. Anyone who thinks this one gets out 'too well' needs to readjust their idea of what a well engineered Class A can do.
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Stations on the west or northwest side of Indy have an excellent signal path to the
east and south. WKLU from Brownsburg could be heard as far as Shelbyville using
just the exciter. WBDG could by heard in downtown Columbus before another
90.9 came on.
 
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