I have worked for Butler Broadcasting. I think he might do what he is doing in Fayetteville AR which has been sucessful, wihich is Alternatvie or Active Rock.
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ai4i said:
Since the only 107.5 in FL is WAMR, which used to be on tower 3 of the WWOK array, and is now on the Gannett tower, I assume that this is what you are talking about.
At 300 feet, the station did not put a usable signal over south Dade and was pretty much useless in Broward. In the 70's, before the market became Dade-Broward in 1981, that worked marginally. However, once the market was consolidated by Arbitron, the facility was vastly inferior and could not compete until it upgraded.
The 107.5 target is Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the radio MSA. Without those 700 feet, much of the target would be lost.
Further, the 100 kw at 1000 feet is needed today to get both height and power to penetrate the huge number of large buildings and condos that have been built, since 70% of radio listening is at home or at work.
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Groove1670
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FM no static at all. Any updates.
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Groove1670
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Actually, It makes sense to stay at a Class A. Key West & Marathon is a are different towns & demos. When we had WPIK (1991-1995) 10-15% of our sales were from Marathon. The next big station did about 20%. It is day & night between those community's. With the overbuild of stations territories & relationships have been established.
ai4i said:Radio-locator now shows a URL for the station
but it links to a station in New Jersey
That's WKXW "New Jersey 101.5". Someone at R-L got their Ks and Xs mixed up.
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cd637299
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Found this tonight....I wouldn't click any further on anything....it needs work, if you ask me, especially with this URL:
http://web.me.com/cjr555/Site_3/Welcome.html
I Googled
wxkw "key west"
& got the above on page 1.
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http://web.me.com/cjr555/Site_3/Welcome.html
I Googled
wxkw "key west"
& got the above on page 1.
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OhioMediaWatch said:ai4i said:Radio-locator now shows a URL for the station
but it links to a station in New Jersey
That's WKXW "New Jersey 101.5". Someone at R-L got their Ks and Xs mixed up.
NJ 101.5 (WKXW) used to simulcast on 97.3 WXKW in South Jersey (Now WENJ-FM).
When the simulcast on 97.3 changed to sports last year, they let those call letters go & now this new station has picked them up.
It will be a JACK FM of surf/beach music. Basically Coldplay, to U2, to Jack Johnson, to Bob Marley, to Jimmy Buffett to Kings of Leon and so forth. I think it should be operating today.
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Groove1670
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Did this station sign on. What format? What is the status of the 100K stations that shared the same tower, did they get back to full power? Did WPIK FM get back on the air (it was silent). How about 97.7 (it was silent too). I was also looking at the playlist for 93.5/96.9 simulcast. Very strange for a CC station eclectic, and over 1100 songs. Thanks.
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cd637299
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musiconradio.com said:
Only judging from using an outdoor antenna in Broward, I gotta say that the 100kW situation has not been fixed yet.....98.7 is the only 100kW Key West station that I ever get a hint of a signal out of (they use a different locale, correct?). 93.5 faintly comes in. The others, forget about it.
102.5 I did hear, when I was in the lower Keys, but they don't even reach marathon much anymore.
97.7 *was* running Conch Country//98.7 for a few days/weeks, but it was silent I believe, the last time I was there. (No need to do that, as 98.7 puts a decent signal there.)
I'd think 104.9 *has* signed on, but of course it wouldn't reach Broward w/ 1 k. (Even w/ 100k, 104.9's an IBOC freq. here.)
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cd637299
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Bump!
Saturday night was IBOC-fee at my home, and I was able to catch WXKW for the first time. They are adult alternative, and the gal on the radio even sez as much at the top of the hour.
Sample tunes played, those that I've heard of:
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
Time Loves a Hero - Little Feat
Do It Again - Steely Dan
I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley
Low Rider - War
Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
+ a few I have never heard in my life.....
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Saturday night was IBOC-fee at my home, and I was able to catch WXKW for the first time. They are adult alternative, and the gal on the radio even sez as much at the top of the hour.
Sample tunes played, those that I've heard of:
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
Time Loves a Hero - Little Feat
Do It Again - Steely Dan
I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley
Low Rider - War
Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
+ a few I have never heard in my life.....
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theradiokid
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Back to the subject of power and height, if I controlled any radio or TV station in the FL Keys, or any RF facility except those that communicate with boats, would try to engineer as directional a pattern as practical.
From KW, would aim at Marathon. From any other Key, would shoot bidirectionally along US-1.
To view these huge circles on the maps annoys me. Any thoughts other than on my easy annoyance?
From KW, would aim at Marathon. From any other Key, would shoot bidirectionally along US-1.
To view these huge circles on the maps annoys me. Any thoughts other than on my easy annoyance?
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cd637299
Guest
ai4i said:
We cannot discriminate against the fish!
ai4i said:
Regulation 73.316(b)(1) limits the directivity of an FM directional antenna to 15dB. (that's the maximum permissible ratio between the maximum and minimum radiated signal)
Regulation 73.685(e) limited the directivity of a VHF TV directional antenna to 10dB. The figure for UHF was 15dB. Best I can tell (73.625(c)(2)) there is no directivity limit for DTV.
Reads like something to insure that underpopulated areas do not become under-served. Exceptions really should be allowed along coasts, lakes, national borders, US states, territories, and protectorates in the Caribbean sea and the Pacific Ocean. In other words, where there is no US land. FM translators are definitely excluded from those regs. I like patterns like this. Look at this baby!
ai4i said:
The only US presence in the Caribbean is the territory of the US Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The USVI are part of an archipelago where there is a lot of water in between the three main and many smaller islands. Non-directional operation from the tops of mountains is the most efficient.
Puerto Rico is 100 miles by about 35 miles, and the transmitter sites are mostly on mountains inland from the coast, yet it still takes three full B's and some translators and boosters to cover the whole Island, which is considered a single media market. In most cases, directionalization would not be of huge benefit since both areas have a special class of both A and B's... 50 kw at 1000 feet for a B and 6 kw at 400 meters for an A.
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