question about PCB radio

[Rob]

Did 101.1 turn all religion? went to listen to C2C last night and heard religion music.

-Rob

 

[cceng1]

JEEEEEEEEEEEZ Rob....of ALL people to ask this........the band was open last night and you were hearing another 101.1 station....I was driving back from Evergreen AL last night after working on a 101.1 station and that religous station was all over Evergreen when I got 15 miles from their transmitter site....some dxer you are

cceng

 

[thegreat108wpfm]

Hey Rob..
pretty sure you heard WAFT/101.1 in Valdosta....you can catch them once in a while in Jacksonville, FL too..
cceng will love this...I heard Rush on 94.5/Panama City this past Tuesday afternoon while driving to St. Augustine..it was crushing Cox's WCFB-94.5/Daytona Beach-Orlando. crazy.
TS

 

[fwillis]

I caught 93.5 Port St. Joe/Panama City Sunday recently in South Georgia, about 275 miles away. I've picked up 92.5, and 99.3 in the past, but 93.5 was a first in this area.The same day I recieved KOMA Oklahoma City, both on a cheap JVC car radio. Gotta love tropo, and temp inversions.

 

[cceng1]

I am glad we are clobbering someone....they have been clobbering us over here
hey great108 you coming to PC for the holidays?
if so, we need to have beers
cceng

 

[thegreat108wpfm]

I am glad we are clobbering someone....they have been clobbering us over here
hey great108 you coming to PC for the holidays?
if so, we need to have beers
cceng

hope to get back over there in the next couple of weeks. will definitely let you know asap. I had a great time with the crew on the last visit.

 

[Tibbs4]

did someone mention beer>>??? happy Fourth gents addicted to the panhandle (and Mrs. Woo)

 

[cceng1]

Tibbs....speaking of beer.....Panama City has finally arrived !! I can get my favorite Croatian beer ....Karlovacka....on back beach road at a new store there called Wine World. Happy 4th to you too!!

cceng

 

[Rob]

ok, i thought there was a switch or something. it's too bad we don't have an FM talker like you do. (sigh)

thanks, (and i brought some life back in this form too)

-Rob

 

[Tibbs4]

I know Chan over there, he's done well down in Destin. I'll have to try to find that beer here in Nashville. Hope it's over 6% alc.
Just got back from a 8 day stay at Disney, including some of the Disney Institute stuff. Sad I won't been near da beach anytime
soon. Gotta be honest, CW, Hendricks Gin --- Gin & Tonics are mighty tasty in the summer heat and humidity these days. Stay
away from power sources or hot...ah never mind the last part...I'm not 23 anymore. We'll leave that to rob and his strobey fetish.

 

[Poledo]

Tibbs, I'm just sitting hear laughing out loud from reading your post. You know Chan Cox? When did they let him out?
He just happens to be back in the news lately. They ran him out of Pensacola years ago and it doesn't look like he's making many friend's in Destin now.

Borrowing from Rob's comment... yeah, that really pumped some life back into this thread. It woke me up this morning too.


Back toward the topic: That tropo's been nasty lately. Panama City and Biloxi stations have been strong in Pensacola while most local stations are obliterated by distant signals. It got so bad on Tuesday that something was leaking into the cable TV system and knocked out digital cable and internet service.

 

[cceng1]

poledo...maybe the cable company will fix their leaky system now yes tropo along the coast has been murder here too especially from New Orleans area stations.

Tibbs...I have never had any Hendricks...I will have to try that.....I do enbibe (sp?) a gin and tonic (my favorite "hard" drink...with beer being #1 overall) from time to time in a 32oz Salty's cup (remember that place?)....I used to be a regular there from about 1991 until they closed the original location in 2000. I must have 100 of those cups. Gin, Tonic, Rose's Lime Juice and crushed ice....YES!

 

[Poledo]

I've managed to get Mediacom to replace every single cable and connection on my property and even parts down the street all the way to the main road... that's what it took for them to get a somewhat reliable cable modem connection to me. One time they spent at least five hours a day working on my cable for over a week. I still notice them hanging new parts up on power poles around the neighborhood but I fear it'll be a long time before they find a fix for the copper wire system. The best news I've gotten relating to cable is that AT&T U-Verse should be online in my neighborhood in about 6 weeks.

 

[cceng1]

oh why didn't you say you had Mediacom.....you have my sympathy

 

[Poledo]

oh why didn't you say you had Mediacom.....you have my sympathy

I also have two cars and a tractor with factory installed AM radios. They call me one of those "early adopters."

I can't knock Mediacom too bad because this system was junk when they bought it from Cablevision.
The people running the local/regional office here are good folks and try their best to do their jobs. It's the mess of a customer service call center and the subcontractors doing field work here that seem to create new problems in the already broken system.

Here's a good story...
Back in the "70's and '80's, when this system was run by Essex, they were pushing about 10 FM radio stations through the cable system. One of the stations was your very own Sunny 98! By the time Cablevision bought the system they had apparently forgotten about the "cable radio" service and it went on unchecked for over 10 years and the unintentionally leaky system would "jam" some of the newly allotted radio stations with stereo audio from HBO and MTV, or radio stations that they were rebroadcasting on different stations (I think Sunny was on cable FM 96.5). Sometimes you could accidentally stumble across shocking content from Cinemax on over-the-air radio late Friday nights.

 

[Panamag8or]

I caught 93.5 Port St. Joe/Panama City Sunday recently in South Georgia, about 275 miles away. I've picked up 92.5, and 99.3 in the past, but 93.5 was a first in this area.The same day I recieved KOMA Oklahoma City, both on a cheap JVC car radio. Gotta love tropo, and temp inversions.

I picked up WFSY in Gainesville, and it was strong enough to lock in the stereo indicator... and that was on a factory Kia radio.

 

[jmtillery]

When I worked for WKTK 98.5 Gainesville back in the late '80s, WFSY walked all over our signal several times with Sunny 98.5 being heard over the WKTK control room monitors as clear as if the Panama City station was local... Part of the contributing factor, I believe, is the fact that WKTK is licensed to Crystal River, some 60-miles from Gainesville, with its tower located at Gulf Hammock, some 40-miles from the Gainesville studio. So, it's a very long STL hop from the Gainesville studio to the Gulf Hammock transmitter.

On another similar note, I remember driving up to the WKTK parking lot on July 4th 1989 getting ready to go on-air early that evening. My air shift was 7 to midnight so it was still daylight when I arrived during the Summer months. My car radio was tuned to 98.5, but instead of hearing the usual hot adult contemporary music, I heard beautiful music very crisp and clear. I was wondering if we were stunting or had changed the format and no one bothered to inform me?

It turned out the beautiful music I was hearing was coming from a class B co-channel on 98.5 in Michigan. I was amazed at how well that 50kw co-channel from Michigan, over 1,200 miles aways, was walking over our class C 100kw signal from a transmitter only 40-miles away... The trop only lasted for a few minutes before WKTK was back to normal.

Mark Tillery
J. M. Tillery & Associates, P. A.
New York - Orlando
Online: www.jmtillery.com
Blog: http://jmtillery.blogspot.com
E-mail: [email protected]

 

[Diamondtwo]

I received a call on the studio line at Sunny 98.5 one summer day in 1987 from the afternoon jock at WKRZ-FM in Wilkes-Barre, PA (also at 98.5). Apparently Sunny was blaring through on THEIR air monitor that day, and they were getting calls from listeners wanting to know if they had changed formats. And this was while Sunny was still broadcasting from the 300' stick out back of the studios (one of the 590 directional array towers), before the tall structure in Fountain was completed.

And 'KTK would take over our air monitors when one of those lovely afternoon thunderstorms would knock Sunny off the air from the tall tower... unfortunately that happened just about every afternoon at 3:15, just as I was getting my show started. Talk about a momentum killer!

David Nolin
TDO