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New Brunswick 104.7 Translator

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BobSmolarek

Anyone hearing the new WWFM 104.7 translator? It's getting out really well, coming in good on Route 78 near the Hunterdon/Somerset border, even coming in around Spruce Run Reservoir. It roars like a lion!
 
The headline refers to "New Brunswick," but the WWFM website lists the 104.7 translator as being in Franklin Township.

I suspect that is Franklin Township in Hunterdon County, not Franklin Township in Somerset County which borders New Brunswick.

That would account for the strong translator signal near Spruce Run.

For years I used to catch WWFM on a translator that was located in downtown Lebanon Township near Round Valley. Did they move that translator to nearby Franklin Township?

That Franklin Township offers some very high round and lots of radio and microwave transmission towers. The northern tip of the township ends at I-78 just south of Clinton, not far from Spruce Run.

The same Founding Father township names can be confusing, I know of a couple of Washington Townships in NJ too. I believe WDVR-FM has its transmitter in Franklin Township, Hunterdon County also.
 
The translator is indeed in the New Brunswick area. The translator that was WWFM's in Glen Garner is currenty dark and will eventually move to another location.
 
The translator is indeed in the New Brunswick area.
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Wow, that 13-watt translator does have an impressive signal if it is that strong in Clinton. I apologetically stand corrected and impressed. I'm the one who was thrown off by Franklin and Franklin.

By the call letters it appears this is the former "Dhoom FM" translator that relayed the Indian format from Hazlet to the South Asian community in the Edison and Central Jersey area.
 
Ughhhhh there goes one good DX frequency. How many classical stations do we need! I'd rather hear static, pirate stations, K104, Q105, and random stations from the south and midwest on 104.7.
 
TimeIsTight said:
Wow, that 13-watt translator does have an impressive signal if it is that strong in Clinton. I apologetically stand corrected and impressed. I'm the one who was thrown off by Franklin and Franklin.
By the call letters it appears this is the former "Dhoom FM" translator that relayed the Indian format from Hazlet to the South Asian community in the Edison and Central Jersey area.
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No, the 104.7 translator is new ..
The CP on it was to expire on October 22 ...
True, however, that its original intent was to simulcast "Dhoom FM" ..
The translator you're thinking about is on 100.7 in Edison ...
That one is currently simulcasting WRKS' HD2 ..
 
The 104.7 translator isn't strong in Clinton (thank God), but it is coming in fairly well. Along Route 579 going towards Bloomsbury it was under and fighting the WRNJ translator out of Hackettstown. Another correction, it is Lebanon Boro, not Lebanon Township, that is near Round Valley. Yes the 105.7 translator is off near Glen Gardner, I like that!
 
the Glen Gardner translator (seen off Route 31) was taken off the air because the landlord wanted to double the rent.(double the rent in this economy)at the tower site so the WWFM folks are looking for a new site, for less expensive money.. It wasn't bad for 9 watts. It has been off the air for several months.
 
My a** that's 13 watts. Of course, it's owned by the same people that ran the "8 watt" Dhoom station on 89.3 that could be heard all over the place. Heard it in Hampton NJ today.
 
Hampton is more than 12 miles away... Clinton, Hampton etc. we're talking 25 miles. I have client's translators at similar height with more power that don't do as well (on good channels too).
 
Nick, you don't need 2 translators that cover, basically, the same area translating the same thing ..
It was probably a last minute decision because the CP for 104.7 was going to expire in a few weeks ..
 
That 100.7 is garbage, on a garbage channel. The coverage barely overlaps 104.7 with the WLEV on one side and WHUD on the other side, both class B's blasting away.
 
That 100.7 translator should just be shut down or converted to a booster for WLEV. 104.7 can be heard better in the Oaktree Road area than 100.7.
 
If you run the Longley-Rice on it, it's just outside the 54dBu of WLEV and also WHUD. It's barely squeezed in where it is, and go a couple of miles in either direction and you're in the protected contour of each station.

What should have been done is that listeners should have complained (the station could have found a few people that live in the area) when it signed on and it would have been gone, just like 106.3 in NYC. A class D translator is a secondary service, and can't interfere with a primary service (class A, B, C etc.).

After it's been on for awhile, the complaint route is much more difficult to use.
 
amfmsw said:
WNTI...that's a 10-12 mile local signal all day long at 13 watts...when you're at 453' HAAT! Holy smokes, at that height, you bet.
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That explains why I am picking up this translator all the way from the highlands instead of the usual K104.
 
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