New Translator for The Hawk is on.

[the marv]

Scanning through the radio dial today I noticed that WHOK has turned on their new translator at 94.1 FM. It looks like it has a pretty strong signal on the eastside.

 

[gabigley1]

When I checked on the 94.1 Translator last week, it wasn't on the air. Most have sighed over the the last few days.

This made it on the air despite the objections filled by Saga with the FCC.
They were concerned it would cause 3rd channel adjacent interference to Sunny FM on 94.7.

This replaces their translator on 102.3 that signed off the air last year because of the 102.5 move in.

 

[the marv]

Now I can just imagine the complaints that WKKJ listeners will be making who commute here from Chillicothe.

 

[lovejamminoldies]

Lord knows we need another country station, translator is on. I'd have used that 94.1 frequency for something else and kept 95.5 alive to cater to the SE Ohio listeners.

 

[gabigley1]

Now I can just imagine the complaints that WKKJ listeners will be making who commute here from Chillicothe.

Note: CC Chillicothe may care less about the WKKJ listeners who commute to Columbus or at least maybe CC Chillicothe may have had enough sense not to object to this new 94.1 translators because they know it would do no good to do so.

 

[xiradiodotcom]

Noticed it on the 11th. Pretty weak overall.

 

[gabigley1]

I tried on November 7, it must have came on sometime late last week.

 

[Nu_Roo_2]

I enjoyed being able to pick up stations like 94.1 in Cincy on occasion. Of course today there's streaming, but it's not quite the same.

 

[xmusicmatt]

The purpose of this translator (the same as it was when it was on 102.3 Mhz) was to fill in gaps around Downtown that 95.5's signal had issues with.. I haven't had a chance to listen to 94.1 Mhz yet to see if it can do that. While it is on the Channel 10 tower it does have the lack of power to do much penatration.

 

[the marv]

With a majority of our commercial stations on channel 10's tv tower that would always explains the issues with rimshots downtown besides the buildings. I wonder how many other rimshot radio station will ever try to get their own translator downtown to alleviate their issues in the area?

 

[gabigley1]

They mentioned on the air this morning, "You can also listen to us 94.1". Has anyone heard a legal ID for the 94.1 translator yet? Did not hear one
when I listed to the station on the top of the hour a few days ago.

 

[xmusicmatt]

They mentioned on the air this morning, "You can also listen to us 94.1". Has anyone heard a legal ID for the 94.1 translator yet? Did not hear one
when I listed to the station on the top of the hour a few days ago.

They could be using non audio method of IDing the translator...

 

[xmusicmatt]

Heard them ID before 5:00 pm coming out of the spot block they ID'ed both WHOK's and the translator's calls/city of license.

 

[markbohach]

They mentioned on the air this morning, "You can also listen to us 94.1". Has anyone heard a legal ID for the 94.1 translator yet? Did not hear one
when I listed to the station on the top of the hour a few days ago.

They could be using non audio method of IDing the translator...

To elaborate on this- the method of ID'ing referred to here uses FSK or Frequency Shift Keying.
The translator ID is sent in morse code by altering the carrier frequency by about 1000Hz. On a broadband
radio you will not even notice it. If you have a narrow band radio, you can possibly hear it but it will sound like
static bursts- again very short in duration.

When you use FSK, the ID needs to be done hourly- just like an over the air ID. If a station chooses
to give the translator ID audibly, it only needs done a few times per day- not every hour.

With the two WLOH translators, I chose to use FSK. It keeps things a lot less cluttered on the air.

MB

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Wish I could remember which station it was...a station with a new FM translator (not in Ohio) that I was catching on a stream.

The translator calls ended in "BS", and they proudly IDed it in the legal...very much emphasizing the "B...S" part. Maybe it was a rocker?

In Washington DC, Bonneville actually pulled off a translator call change for their 104.3 translator of all-news WTOP in Leesburg VA...the call ended in "AM", and WTOP IDed it hourly, and didn't want the calls with "AM' on an FM translator. It's now ending in "BA".

Yeah, Mark, I understand very much about the clutter and why you FSK the two translators. I'm just a radio geek who thinks hearing translator calls over air is cool.