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New station, kinda

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AM 830 WQZQ, Goodlettsville, is on the air. Urban gospel, parallel 102.5 The Party's HD2 and the translators on 102.1 in West Nashville and 101.9 in downtown Clarksville.

The AM station is 2,000 watts daytime only, non-directional.

This is kinda, but not really, a new station. Technically, it's the same license as the 1550 station in Clarksville that was silenced by last year's flood. They already had the permit to make this move when the flood hit.
 
52 degree tower. 9.78 -j136. Total system (filter+network) Q= about 17. Base current a whopping 14.3 Amperes for 2 kw. Thats more base current than WSM at 12.8 Amperes (but 305 -j 152)! It co-exist with WPLN on 1430 and uses one of the night towers. Filters were pretty easy but the tuning unit took a little work also locating quiet measuring locations away from all the power lines out there to check for mix products. Noise level is horrendous out there. For what it is, it seems to do pretty well, it exceeded my expectations quite frankly....
 
Watt Hairston said:
52 degree tower. 9.78 -j136. Total system (filter+network) Q= about 17. Base current a whopping 14.3 Amperes for 2 kw. Thats more base current than WSM at 12.8 Amperes (but 305 -j 152)! It co-exist with WPLN on 1430 and uses one of the night towers. Filters were pretty easy but the tuning unit took a little work also locating quiet measuring locations away from all the power lines out there to check for mix products. Noise level is horrendous out there. For what it is, it seems to do pretty well, it exceeded my expectations quite frankly....
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I can only imagine... (I'm certainly familiar with the obstructions in that neighborhood!)

Though if you *really* want to see a nightmare, ask someone in Milwaukee about the WGLB-1560/WJTI-1460 shared site.

A VERY quick check suggests it's doing about as well as WPLN's day signal, probably about what I'd expect given the frequency difference.

Told the DXers about it, none have reported it yet.
 
I just saw this thread after I got home from afternoon service at church...830 is loud and clear in Lebanon, and should be listenable in parts of Nashville...I wonder how this will affect PPM because will they be listed as WQZQ or WPRT-HD2?
 
soundsandsports said:
I just saw this thread after I got home from afternoon service at church...830 is loud and clear in Lebanon, and should be listenable in parts of Nashville...I wonder how this will affect PPM because will they be listed as WQZQ or WPRT-HD2?
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I guess to answer my question, I want to go back to a post I made months ago...and I quote...

we could have a interesting Gospel competition in Nashville...there will be three stations not too far away from each other on the AM dial:

760 if WENO flips, then "The Light" when they finish the move from 1550 in Clarksville to 830 in Goodletsville, and 880 WMDB, Nashville's "other" heritage urban station as opposed to 1470 WVOL.

I think "The Light" will have the edge because they come off the bird (Sheridan Gospel Network) and don't have too many preachin' shows on the network, plus they'll have an AM to go along with two existing FM translators and The Party's HD subchannel.

760 will be trying to gain a listener base from scratch because all their current listeners will be furious if/when they flip (like when I discovered that "The One" flipped to "The Beat") because they're going from one end of the spectrum to "the dark side", and those listeners will move on to 710, 980, or 1160.

880 will still have its loyal listeners, but I don't think they can overcome an AM/FM simulcast, as the younger gospel demo (let's say that's 18 to 34 because I don't think gospel has a target demo that I know of) will use the FM more, and the old folks (35+) will use the AM side.

Other than 880 being 760's sister station, cancelling each other out in that respect, and 880 flipping to talk and reviving those cool "The Big Mouth" liners, I was right about some things...

760 "The Gospel" has been off the board since the beginning of the year (starting from scratch like I said), and FM definitely put the now 830/102.1/101.9 "Light" on the map, even with the AM side non-existent until now at nearly a 1 share.
 
What had 1550 been programming in recent years? When I lived in Clarksville in the early '90s, they simulcast 102.9 (which was "Rockin' Country" at the time), save for the three hours at midday when they carried Rush Limbaugh.
 
firepoint525 said:
What had 1550 been programming in recent years? When I lived in Clarksville in the early '90s, they simulcast 102.9 (which was "Rockin' Country" at the time), save for the three hours at midday when they carried Rush Limbaugh.
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I can't speak for the immediate past but not too long ago, it was "The Light", just as it is now. I suspect it's been that way all along.

What's new will be actually being able to hear the station from its point of control. Couldn't hear 1550 from Clarksville on Murfreesboro Road.

If Watt is working it, it's working and working well. You can bet the farm on that.
 
Bat Fastard said:
I can't speak for the immediate past but not too long ago, it was "The Light", just as it is now. I suspect it's been that way all along.
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Yep, that's what they were running when the flood shut it down.
 
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