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Reception of NYC/Philly in Princeton and Toms River

J

JH_Radio

How does it work in the two locations of Toms River and Prinston for reception of AM/FM?
I've heard the car scan posted on Youtube.
I'm going to guess that in both of these locations, HD is a no on everything, correct?
In Toms River, you won't get WXTU or WPHI or WAXQ?
This is due to 92.7 WOBM-FM, and the translator at 104.1?
in Prinston, 103.5 WKTU is out due to WPRB?
In Toms River, you'll get NYC/Philly/Atlantic City, where as in Prinston, you'll get NYC/Philly/Allentown?
In Toms River, anything from Atlantic City/Philly/NYC can be gotton on AM too, but in Prinston, the NYC signals seem stronger, with the exception of WEPN/KYW.
These two locations in New Jersey have always fassinated me with radio reception.
John
 
Draw a line from Princeton to Toms River and you’ll have about equal strength of both NYC and Philly.
 
Well i'm sure of one thing, if in Toms River, you'd need an outdoor antenna to pull a lot of that in.
Why on earth does WJRZ have the same thing on 100.5?
John
 
JH_Radio said:
Well i'm sure of one thing, if in Toms River, you'd need an outdoor antenna to pull a lot of that in.
Why on earth does WJRZ have the same thing on 100.5?
John
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Limited signal of WJRZ. It's believed 100.1 does not reach well into downtown Toms River, with the buildings. The translator used to be on 100.7 but I assume it was changed because WZXL overpowered the translator often.

As for the main question, it can vary in Toms River for Philly and NYC stations. VWestLife on YouTube did a Toms River FM bandscan, 10 years ago and every signal came in strong on almost every frequency. Driving on Route 37 from the parkway to the bridge, FM reception is more like the band scan above. Staticy and definitely more local stations to chose from. For AM, WWJZ and WKDN are the stronger signals for the Philly area. The rest come in weak with interference from powerlines. NYC AM's have the edge in both Toms River and Princeton overall.

Princeton is more interesting. Both cities come in strong enough to stop on seek. I had 101.1 stop on seek, driving on Route 1 and it was an even battle between WBEB and WCBS! 100.3 is also equal strength from both cities, as well. 103.5 KTU is buried under IBOC hash. WLEV 100.7 comes in but is weak.
 
I am still not sure how WJRZ is allowed to exist at 100.1 when Z100 is at 100.3 and you have Philly's 100.3.
 
When WJRZ was licensed in 1976, it was under the version of 73.207 (the fully-spaced FM spacing rules) that then existed. (You can find it in Section A of the 1976 BY on David's worldradiohistory.com site). Those rules, back when class A FM was limited to 3 kW/300', required only 65 miles of spacing between a class A and a first-adjacent class B.

It's 68.3 miles from WJRZ to the site WVNJ-FM was then using on 100.3, and 66 miles to the site where 100.3 in Philadelphia would go. (The frequency was between licensees back then, WXUR-FM having lost its license and WKZS not yet having been granted a new license.)

And because WJRZ was there first, WKZS/WPLY had to utilize a directional antenna in order to move to Roxborough so as not to increase its power in the directions of WJRZ and WHTZ.
 
fybush said:
When WJRZ was licensed in 1976, it was under the version of 73.207 (the fully-spaced FM spacing rules) that then existed. (You can find it in Section A of the 1976 BY on David's worldradiohistory.com site). Those rules, back when class A FM was limited to 3 kW/300', required only 65 miles of spacing between a class A and a first-adjacent class B.

It's 68.3 miles from WJRZ to the site WVNJ-FM was then using on 100.3, and 66 miles to the site where 100.3 in Philadelphia would go. (The frequency was between licensees back then, WXUR-FM having lost its license and WKZS not yet having been granted a new license.)

And because WJRZ was there first, WKZS/WPLY had to utilize a directional antenna in order to move to Roxborough so as not to increase its power in the directions of WJRZ and WHTZ.
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I believe 92.5 had to come to some sort of arrangement with WOBM-FM at 92.7 to move to Roxburgh, too. Of course, this was many years ago, too.
 
I lived in Brick and Toms River back in the mid 1980s. With a digital tuner in your car, you could get just about every station from NY and Philly - some better than others. As you'd drive, of course, they would flutter in and out.
 
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