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New Louisville AM Move-In?

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WildcatGuy

I just read that Louisville is about to get a new AM move-in. It's supposed to be on 1200 KHz, licensed to J'Town, with 3,500 watts Day and 3,000 watts Night. Anybody know anything about this? Where would they find the real estate for the towers?
 
In 2004 There was an application filed to move WGRK from Greensburg to J'town using the WTUV towers in Jeffersonville Indiana and 5kW daytime power.
 
Bengalsfan said:
In 2004 There was an application filed to move WGRK from Greensburg to J'town using the WTUV towers in Jeffersonville Indiana and 5kW daytime power.
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Hmmm. From what I read today, it appears to be on track to hit the air soon.
 
WildcatGuy said:
I just read that Louisville is about to get a new AM move-in. It's supposed to be on 1200 KHz, licensed to J'Town, with 3,500 watts Day and 3,000 watts Night. Anybody know anything about this? Where would they find the real estate for the towers?
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WOW! That's a great signal!
 
WildcatGuy said:
I just read that Louisville is about to get a new AM move-in. It's supposed to be on 1200 KHz, licensed to J'Town, with 3,500 watts Day and 3,000 watts Night. Anybody know anything about this? Where would they find the real estate for the towers?
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WGRK-1540 Greensburg has applied to move to 1200 at Jeffersontown. It would be 3,500 watts day, 3,000 watts critical hours. No night operation at all. They want to use an existing 120m (400') tower at 38-11-04N/85-29-57W. Tower registration database says that's 4021 Hopewell Road, east of Jeffersontown.

The FCC's database suggests two different sites are to be used, and the powers are 5,000/2,500 watts. That appears to be an error in the database, reading the application the 3,500/3,000 figures are correct.

The applicant made field strength measurements on WRVC-930 Huntington which show ground conductivity over that path is poorer than predicted, and thus suggesting the WGRK move would not interfere with the new 1200 station in West Virginia.

The FCC has not yet acted on this application.

I see little chance this will be built before the end of next year. It will probably take quite a bit longer. And that's assuming the FCC approves the application, which is by no means certain.
 
Thanks for the detailed explanation. The critical hours vs. nighttime operation makes sense. I had wondered how they would get that much nighttime juice on the same channel as WOAI in San Antonio.
 
Does Louisville really need another AM station? And what kind of format would they have that's not already on AM or FM?
I don't expect this to happen anytime soon. I'm still waiting for WQKC 1450 to return.
By the way, isn't this the station that took the WAKY call letters after 790 dropped them?
 
radiofan502 said:
Does Louisville really need another AM station? And what kind of format would they have that's not already on AM or FM?
I don't expect this to happen anytime soon. I'm still waiting for WQKC 1450 to return.
By the way, isn't this the station that took the WAKY call letters after 790 dropped them?
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It is the station that took the WAKY calls. The story goes the owner at the time grabbed the call letters as soon as 790 dropped them. The calls migrated to Springfield, first with a suffix set of calls. The Greensburg station returned to their former calls (WGKY, I beleive) the Springfield station removed the suffix. Bill Walters made a deal and moved the call letters to his station.

Plus, add me to the list of those who feel this is futile effort. Besides, there is this sticky wicket when constructing a pattern. http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WSLM&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
 
radiorob2.0 said:
Besides, there is this sticky wicket when constructing a pattern. http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WSLM&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
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The application includes an "adjacent channel allocation study" which shows no overlap with WSLM's 5mV/m. I'm not familiar with AM allocation standards but this application was prepared by a reputable engineer & I'd be surprised if he overlooked issues with WSLM.

The station proposes non-directional operation.

(note that WSLM is directional)
 
w9wi said:
They want to use an existing 120m (400') tower at 38-11-04N/85-29-57W. Tower registration database says that's 4021 Hopewell Road, east of Jeffersontown.
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That would be the tower just east of the Snyder Freeway and just south of Taylorsville road, originally used for WZZX 101.7 that went on the air in the 1970s.

It's way back in the farmer's field, because for 101.7 to meet the minimum separation from 102.3 it had to be built back there.

Apparently they plan on using a folded unipole antenna.
 
What programming will this station present?
 
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