Watt, or anyone else who may know this answer...there is a 'new' stick near the dual towers on OHB near Brentwood. This has red and white paint and a pretty new single white strobey. Is this the 91.1 tower or what? Looks like it's taller than the old stick near Dyer Observatory. Maybe its just been repainted and is not new, but I can't imagine missing it for all these years. Any info is appreciated.
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POSSIBLE NEW TOWER NEAR THE OHB TWINS?
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WFCL is staying on the WSMV tower... while a possible move to another site (I believe 97.1's tower) was mentioned in some of the agreement paperwork, it was only a backup option that isn't being enacted.
Putting 91.1 on OHB would negatively impact coverage to the north, so that won't be happening.
Putting 91.1 on OHB would negatively impact coverage to the north, so that won't be happening.
could it be the 95.9 translator for WNSR? IIRC...that's where it's supposed to be
Tibbs2 said:
91.1's history includes just two tower sites -- from 1971 to 1985, it was located atop the Oxford House building at VUMC, and with the 1985 power boost, it moved across town to WSMV's Knob Rd. tower. There was never a backup site (nor is there one at present) -- Knob Rd. provides great reliability. Thinking back to the flood which knocked off plenty of stations around town, WRVU (then on 91.1) experienced not a minute of down time.
Keep in mind that WRVU's ownership is not Vanderbilt University - it is Vanderbilt Student Communications. VSC rents all spaces that it uses from the University. So there wouldn't have been any benefit to putting a tower in the Dyer Observatory area just because the University owns it, because VSC would have had to rent it from the University anyway.
(that said, since WRVU is carried on WPLN HD-3, WRVU's terrestrial signal does now broadcast from OHB)
WRVU spent a brief time on WZTV's old site off of Charlotte pike when they first increased the power to then 14.5 k. It interferred with the WZTV signal and was forced to down grade until Gillette broadcasting (George Gillette a big fan of RVU along with Dan Miller) gave them or rented them the tower space on Knob Hill.
I believe higher tower space equaled the downgrade to 10.0 k watts? First song heard on the new 14.5k RVU, Steely Dan No Static At All. My ears were on the day of that switch! Sucked when they had to downgrade for a brief time. Sucks even more that college radio is gone from the Nashville dial. Visit a town that still has it and you will know what I mean! Thanks Encarta for supporting the sale!
Nock
I believe higher tower space equaled the downgrade to 10.0 k watts? First song heard on the new 14.5k RVU, Steely Dan No Static At All. My ears were on the day of that switch! Sucked when they had to downgrade for a brief time. Sucks even more that college radio is gone from the Nashville dial. Visit a town that still has it and you will know what I mean! Thanks Encarta for supporting the sale!
Nock
Nock said:
The switch to 10kw happened while it was on the WSMV tower. It wasn't a downgrade; the antenna height had increased significantly* and the FCC required a corresponding power decrease to keep the theoretical coverage the same. (to keep it from interfering with other stations -- Vincennes University in Indiana? WKNO Memphis? WKMS Murray?) It's been on our tower since before I came to town in late 1990.
There is nothing on the books with the FCC to move 91.1 today. I would imagine contingency plans for moving would have been the prudent thing to do, just in case for some reason WPLN wasn't able to reach agreement with Meredith on continuing the lease. To my knowledge the negotiations went just fine & there was no need to proceed with a move.
I really enjoyed WRVU when I first came to town. It had increasingly become an automated operation with a lot of the more experimental (interesting) music gone & not much information about what they were still playing. Can't say I listened at all in the station's last two years. Would have loved to see WRFN take over 91.1 but I'm sure the $$$ wasn't there. (probably not to operate it, let alone to acquire it)
I installed the site at ch-17 and I think that was mid-80's. The move to Ch-4 was due to I think the relocation of 17 and the sale of real-estate. I do also recall issues with WRVU getting into the video and audio at the Ch-17 location. The Ch-17 was a move up in signal from Oxford house 450 watts. VU had dragged their feet on the upgrade so long the CP almost ran out and it had to be done FAST! The HAAT at Ch-4 was a BIG improvement in coverage. The biggest problem was getting microwave shot out of the VU studio location. Carl Pedersen who was engineer at WPLN became the advisory engineer when I moved on. Carl now VP of Technology and Finance at Nashville Public Radio. Regarding a location at Dyer, that was discussed but the professor who ran that observatory vetoed it because of possible light contamination and view shed concerns... WRVU started as a carrier-current AM station in 60's. I don't know what is going on up on the hill at Brentwood anymore. There is some prime space up there especially where the old NTSC Ch-3 turn-style antenna is now....
Mr. 69, you shouldn't insult ETL like that... The level of incompetence to which I have risen has been vastly under-exaggerated! ;Ddeltas69 said:I've never met Watt..but his reputation I'm told by those who know him is right up there with Everett Lawson...that being said...I wonder could he throw up a mobile pirate station that would cover Nashville ?? Just kidding...or am I
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