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New Brunswick Translator 104.7

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Deeman1710

The owners of the 100.7 in Edison (Touchdown Media ) are putting up a 13 watt 248 ft translator on 104.7 mhz on the cell tower opposite the WMGQ tower behind the bus station near Jersey Ave. in New Brunswick. This would be good for WCTC especially at night if it was a real local station the way it was from 1947 to when I worked there in the 80's. Satellite radio would be a joke especially with no local news at night, maybe for the sports yes. It's unlikely that WDDM 89.3 will broadcast on it knowing the owners. They plan to stay on 100.7 to cover Little Edison India. Any suggestions as to who you think should be on it?
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If my dreams come true, Pulse 87 :) But I don't think that an FM translator can relay a low power TV station audio.
Would be a good spot for WQXR 105.9, or any Philly station.

The indian station would be a waste if 104.7 also translated it, 89.3 and 100.7 come in that area, and the Indian population is low in that area, the Hispanic population is high. 92.7 WZAA might be the best station to relay, given the population demographics.

There goes my reception of Radio 104.5 and SoJo 104.9
 
i find it really, really sad that this translator invasion continues to allow crap like this to happen. 89.3 is very strong and 100.7's really weak for 8 watts. the fact that they want to put it near veronica ave won't do them any good if they're looking to cater to the masses on oak tree road. at what point can we all say enough is enough to religious nut-case organizations going translator happy, dhoom fm getting translator happy and continuing the over-crowding of the FM band in this area?
 
I agree that translators are messing up the FM band. The TPO of 89.3 is 20 Watts and 100.7 is 35 Watts. Transmitter power output (TPO). Loss to antenna is in the hardline to actual license ERP output. WDDM 89.3 usea a QEI exciter as it's transmitter and 100.7 a Best exciter. Pictures are on my website. Audio chain ia a ProVLA Art tube AGC processor, Beheringer EQ and processor. (No expensive Optimod) 104.7 will be 13 watts ERP. They also have a translater for Colonia to be built one day too. ;D www.tonydeeradio.com
 
A poster said "on the cell tower opposite the WMGQ tower behind the bus station." Isn't MGQ's tower at the studio site on Veronica Avenue in Somerest?
 
It would be better if they just moved the 100.7 translator up to 104.7 and left it there. The 100.7 translator was shoehorned in between WLEV and WHUD, and the reception of all three signals on 100.7 suffers greatly as a result.

Also, whatever audio processing they are using sounds terrible. There is no bass at all, and there is a constant background hiss on 100.7 even when the signal is perfectly strong. Even a cheap CRL Amigo or Inovonics David would sound a lot better than whatever they're using now, even if they still don't want to be in stereo.

And I'm not even going to get into the full-blown commercials that WDDM runs even though they're supposed to be a Non-Commercial license...
 
I'm still skeptical that WDDM runs 8 watts. They are audible from Princeton to Brooklyn, well beyond the blue circle of Radio-Locator. The 100.7 translator gets a weak signal of 89.3 at its transmitter site, I've heard e-skip or the NJN station on 100.7. I think 100.7's exciter transmits spurs on the adjacent frequencies, as it messes up reception of CBS-FM and Z100 within a quarter mile of it. Is 89.3 really supposed to be a non-com?

The FCC hasn't touched the pirate stations, why would it care about 89.3? Seems like we get at least one new pirate station on the air every week.
 
i thought, according to recent FCC documents, that they were supposed to be running even lower than 8 watts. their recent STA granted a reduction of 5 watts with their transmitter relocating back to telegraph hill. i don't even know if they ever relocated to their proposed tower off of rt 34 on the aberdeen/marlboro border. there's no way in heck their operating at 5 or 8 watts. although i do remember in 1996 when the old WCNJ (i miss those days.) moved to telegraph hill, 10 watts or so... heard them clear as a bell, strong like a local in south river. i also remember for a short time when 89.3 was in stereo. 100.7 is useless. in fact, that entire station is useless. the late ed beck and i had a conversation once to catch up on old times and when he told me that they had the chance years ago to apply for another frequency, 104.7 i think. i forgot the reasons why it never came to be... i don't recall if WAXQ objected or what not... it would've been nice to a local station like WCNJ stay local despite some of its negative reputation and its business practices.
 
they had the chance years ago to apply for another frequency, 104.7 i think. i forgot the reasons why it never came to be... i don't recall if WAXQ objected or what not...

Myke- as far as I know 104.7 in Hazlet would not work. It is too close to the allocations of 104.5 in Philadelphia and 104.9 in Egg Harbor City. I grew up in Hazlet (on the Holmdel border) and with a good radio and antenna you could pick up both stations- 104.5 was the clearer of the two. I miss both versions of Sunny. There is also a 104.7 in Long Island and one in Poughkeepsie, NY. When I lived there, Long Island was not on the air, but 104.7 WSPK/Poughkeepsie was, and once again, with a good radio and antenna it was audible, if somewhat weak. Also, 104.7 has an odd connotation to the Jersey Shore area. That was the frequency that Sal Anthony, the former WCNJ owner pirated from Howell as "WZVU" as an oldies station after the real WZVU/ Long Branch changed formats to country back in 1996. Complaints from WLCE (now WRFF, Phila) and WRDR (now WSJO, Egg Harbor), drove him off the air. Incidentally, as a pirate, he had a good signal covering alot of real estate- I remember receiving it from South Amboy to almost Trenton and as far south as Toms River.

-Mike
 
He could bring that pirate back on the air and have no problems...except interference from the other pirate stations across the bay in Brooklyn.
 
Mike said:
they had the chance years ago to apply for another frequency, 104.7 i think. i forgot the reasons why it never came to be... i don't recall if WAXQ objected or what not...

Myke- as far as I know 104.7 in Hazlet would not work. It is too close to the allocations of 104.5 in Philadelphia and 104.9 in Egg Harbor City. I grew up in Hazlet (on the Holmdel border) and with a good radio and antenna you could pick up both stations- 104.5 was the clearer of the two. I miss both versions of Sunny. There is also a 104.7 in Long Island and one in Poughkeepsie, NY. When I lived there, Long Island was not on the air, but 104.7 WSPK/Poughkeepsie was, and once again, with a good radio and antenna it was audible, if somewhat weak. Also, 104.7 has an odd connotation to the Jersey Shore area. That was the frequency that Sal Anthony, the former WCNJ owner pirated from Howell as "WZVU" as an oldies station after the real WZVU/ Long Branch changed formats to country back in 1996. Complaints from WLCE (now WRFF, Phila) and WRDR (now WSJO, Egg Harbor), drove him off the air. Incidentally, as a pirate, he had a good signal covering alot of real estate- I remember receiving it from South Amboy to almost Trenton and as far south as Toms River.

-Mike
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i miss sal anthony... he hired me to sell radio ads and since then, at 15, i was hooked on working in radio. yea, i remember when he forged an FCC license for 104.7. Gotta hand it to him though, he was brilliant and tough. Yea, that was one heck of a signal. some other crap went down with either purchasing 89.7 WRLJ ( now WRDR) to simulcast WCNJ. i remember at 16 heading out to trenton one day and being able to hear something local so far away. i was ecstatic that CNJ was able to do that. :)
 
does anyone know what happening with 89.3, it sound slike shit and so does 100.7.

100.7 always had a hiss..somebody needs to fix that.

any updates on 104.7? i heard they are looking for a station to translate
 
the translator is still pending an app for Franklin Twp (by the Magic 98.3 transmitter) on 104.7. however, WDDM has an app to change to 104.7 because the FM Pregnancy Centers ( i find this terribly funny and ridiculous) won the CP to build 89.3 out of Freehold and blast more religious garbage that their friends, Jim and Cheryl Manfredonia of Domestic Church Media are spewing out on 1260 am near Trenton. 89.3 is supposed to go live sometime soon so WDDM is trying to take action to protect their contour.

When the DCM catholic nutcases were booted from 89.3, they pleaded with people to find a way back on the air. Of course, they're all in the same center on Newman Springs Road in Shrewsbury where the FM Pregnancy folks picket and protest planned parenthood down the street. So, yea, do I believe this is a way for them to get back onto fm, yea. why put up such a lengthy and costly fight for it? Beats the heck out of me.

I can see it now... women sitting on radios in hopes of getting pregnant like their Virgin Mary haha!
 
Got some news for you ...
Domestic Church Media recently applied to buy the CP from FM Pregnancy Centers for the new 89.3 in Freehold ...
It was in yesterday's FCC Daily Digest ...
 
why am i not surprised..... i wonder what they'll do w/ the 1260 they bought from millenium last year. when is enough going to be enough with religion crowding the fm dial? ugh.
 
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