I'm back in Wadsworth on vacation from school and have noticed that 95.5 The Fish is very hard to pick up clearly in town. Usually it is a fairly strong signal throughout the house and in the vehicles. Are they running reduced power, or is it maybe just some weird atmospheric thing?
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Possible Fish Signal Problems?
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> I'm back in Wadsworth on vacation from school and have
> noticed that 95.5 The Fish is very hard to pick up clearly
> in town. Usually it is a fairly strong signal throughout
> the house and in the vehicles. Are they running reduced
> power, or is it maybe just some weird atmospheric thing?
Did you know WFHM (as it was when it was WCLV) has a directional antenna pattern? They protect stations in Michigan and Pennsylvania also on 95.5...or are you saying they'd always been strong but lately have signal problems?
> noticed that 95.5 The Fish is very hard to pick up clearly
> in town. Usually it is a fairly strong signal throughout
> the house and in the vehicles. Are they running reduced
> power, or is it maybe just some weird atmospheric thing?
Did you know WFHM (as it was when it was WCLV) has a directional antenna pattern? They protect stations in Michigan and Pennsylvania also on 95.5...or are you saying they'd always been strong but lately have signal problems?
> Did you know WFHM (as it was when it was WCLV) has a
> directional antenna pattern? They protect stations in
> Michigan and Pennsylvania also on 95.5...or are you saying
> they'd always been strong but lately have signal problems?
I'm not sure if they have a directional antenna, or not...the FCC database says they don't:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFHM&service=FM&status=L&hours=U
The problem wouldn't appear to be directional...it'd appear to be that Wadsworth is on the edge of their "strong signal area". Or, let's look at the FCC's own "Service Area Map" for WFHM:
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM609270.html>http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM609270.html</a>
The upshot - unlike most Cleveland market FMs, which are somewhere in the TV/FM antenna farm in the Parma/North Royalton/Brecksville region, WFHM is out by the I-271/480/422 interchange just east of Warrensville Heights. And that effectively reduces its signal down southwest of Akron...sort of an effective directional, as it were.
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> directional antenna pattern? They protect stations in
> Michigan and Pennsylvania also on 95.5...or are you saying
> they'd always been strong but lately have signal problems?
I'm not sure if they have a directional antenna, or not...the FCC database says they don't:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFHM&service=FM&status=L&hours=U
The problem wouldn't appear to be directional...it'd appear to be that Wadsworth is on the edge of their "strong signal area". Or, let's look at the FCC's own "Service Area Map" for WFHM:
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM609270.html>http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM609270.html</a>
The upshot - unlike most Cleveland market FMs, which are somewhere in the TV/FM antenna farm in the Parma/North Royalton/Brecksville region, WFHM is out by the I-271/480/422 interchange just east of Warrensville Heights. And that effectively reduces its signal down southwest of Akron...sort of an effective directional, as it were.
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> But...at least in cars you should get WFHM with a decent
> signal in Wadsworth. It's not THAT far from the east side of
> the Cleveland area off I-271 and Wadsworth. Hummm.
I'm not a regular listener to WFHM, but I don't recall having difficulty getting it in Wadsworth, at least at the I-76/Rt. 94 interchange. Maybe there was some atmospheric condition causing it.
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> signal in Wadsworth. It's not THAT far from the east side of
> the Cleveland area off I-271 and Wadsworth. Hummm.
I'm not a regular listener to WFHM, but I don't recall having difficulty getting it in Wadsworth, at least at the I-76/Rt. 94 interchange. Maybe there was some atmospheric condition causing it.
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> I'm not a regular listener to WFHM, but I don't recall
> having difficulty getting it in Wadsworth, at least at the
> I-76/Rt. 94 interchange. Maybe there was some atmospheric
> condition causing it.
>
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I think it was some atmospheric condition; it seemed to "return" to normal this past weekend.
> having difficulty getting it in Wadsworth, at least at the
> I-76/Rt. 94 interchange. Maybe there was some atmospheric
> condition causing it.
>
> -OA
>
I think it was some atmospheric condition; it seemed to "return" to normal this past weekend.
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