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Q100 Outage on Sunday Morning

R

RadioDoogie

I noticed that while the Q100 transmitter was down during the Saturday Night Q this past weekend, the 99.7 frequency was wide open for some serious DXing. I was mainly receiving WOOF in Dothan, AL and secondly WWTN in Nashville and for a very brief time and a very rare occurrence WMC in Memphis. What a great opportunity to receive these stations so far away! I noticed that there are very few 99.7 stations in the southeast and most of them are at full power. For Q100's powerful signal to go away for a few moments was like opening the floodgates of signals to come in. Anyone else receive anything different?
 
How long was it out? I was driving home and noticed it about midnight and when I got in about 12:45 I thought it was still happening.

Dothan is the one station I was hearing the most of. Really surprised to hear the signal that far away - and occasionally it would come in clear as a bell.
 
It was very interesting to hear other signals come in on 99.7 Saturday night.

What I heard was two different signals battling it out: a political talk show (something about Obama and health care) and what seemed like a Christian station.

I wonder what caused the outage?
 
The talk show was probably coming from WWTN (100kw) in Nashville. They are a long-running talk radio station and they do not broadcast in Stereo. WOOF is an AC format at 100kw and WMC is a Hot AC format at 300kw-horizontally and 100kw-vertically. I am not sure what the Christian station would be. Could be WYFI in Norfolk, but that would be a stretch.
 
Wish I had known about this. I frequently listen to 99.7 WWTN over the internet and whenever I go
to Chattanooga, that is usually where their signal supersedes Q100's signal. Nashville is one market where FM
Talk has done quite well.

Also, there is 99.7 WXST out of Charleston that has a 100K signal.
 
bclark71. said:
And did Rob Thomas approve this outage?
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It is such a shame that the call letters "WROB" are unavailable as I am sure 99.7 would jump on them given half a chance.
 
I am in Asheville, NC I do not seem to remember how far south-west WKSF 99.9 in Asheville reaches towards Atlanta. I wonder if Q100 (99.7) was off the air if you could hear WKSF. Does anyone have any comments?
 
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