Wondering how everyone's reception was of WFMX now. Here in southwest Charlotte, it is pretty much gone. I can pull in WFCC and WTQR, but FMX is history. I can now pickup another CC fu*k up, 105.7 the Bull in Augusta, GA. Occasionaly in the afternoon, FMX will come in slightly, but it is unlistenable.
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Reception Reports...WFMX
- Thread starter djjim6629
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Ya got to remembber that they moved their transmitter about 30 miles north, and dropped power BIG time.
Alright, my report: Here in Person County, WFMX battles a lp station in Danville, Va. However the farthe courth you go away from Danville, the better of course.
The analysis at my house: near the NC/VA Line, at Hyco Lake. Poor. Beter than when it was in Statesville, but its weak.
The Bottom Line: I give it a 3 out of 10 in signal quality
anyone else?
Alright, my report: Here in Person County, WFMX battles a lp station in Danville, Va. However the farthe courth you go away from Danville, the better of course.
The analysis at my house: near the NC/VA Line, at Hyco Lake. Poor. Beter than when it was in Statesville, but its weak.
The Bottom Line: I give it a 3 out of 10 in signal quality
anyone else?
It's gone here in East Charlotte too. This has got to be one of the strangest moves ever. Well as long as Clear Channel is happy it's okay. Has the signal actually improved anywhere?
Its gone in the NI area too unless you are in a car, or form of transportation....I have been forced to listen to 99.7 WRFX, which is a format I like (Classic Rock), but nonetheless, if CC wouldn't have **** up like they did, then this wouldn't be this way....in my opinion CC should burn in hell for this...now it is just my opinion, so nobody flame me for this....
And another reason I am listening to WRFX is b/c I can't stand 96.9,103.7, and 104.1, they make me sick so much it hurts, hmm, change that, it gives me goosebumps and cancer to listen to them, I have listened to FMX ever since I was a youngin' back in the late 80's...and to be honest, it was the better of all four station put together...
Wayne
And another reason I am listening to WRFX is b/c I can't stand 96.9,103.7, and 104.1, they make me sick so much it hurts, hmm, change that, it gives me goosebumps and cancer to listen to them, I have listened to FMX ever since I was a youngin' back in the late 80's...and to be honest, it was the better of all four station put together...
Wayne
wnih-wayne said:
That was priceless
Ya know I don't remember people acting like this when a bunch of us kids took WDBM and turned it into WOOO or as we called it, Triple O 97. Wonder why? ;D Well I was on the AM side and the tower wasn't moved til later when it wasn't us anymore but....... Does this make any sense at all? Anyway.....the reception was spoty on I-81 in the Roanoke area this morning coming down from the North. I don't remember picking it up there before. In Hickory I use to could pick up FMX in my Jag with the broken antenna. Now it's just static all the way to Statesville. I don't think I'ill be getting it fixed just to hear the NEW WFMX. Don't misunderstand me. I'm in no way comparing the old WDBM to WFMX. It was the biggest and and last to fall. We all knew it could and probabley would someday. :'(
Mike Sheridan said:
I really don't think that CC Greensboro is concern about the reception in Charlotte. Definatelly the sales force wouln't be expending any time there. It is a Triad station, and the reception in Clemmons is good, I guess that is the reason that we are the COL.
WKBC will be so hard to move-in. They are kind of boxed-in where they are. You have two 96.9's at C level protection in Johnson City and Charlotte. You also have a 97.1 in the Triad. I can't see any real benefits to downgrading it. WQMG is fine as is.
Reception of the new 105.7 here in Winston is very good, as long as you don't get under the annoying power line or on the wrong side of a building. But I guess this IS the market they had in mind, still doesn't make me want to listen to it regardless of the signal quality, not my genre, or many people's in "Clemmons" either. What a joke to have a Clemmons COL, signal from a mountain in Stokes county and a broadcast from Greensboro. What market was this? I guess the puzzle pieces came together for somebody.
What IS the formula for determining a "new" station's COL, such as WFMX? Was it some CC exec with a map of the Triad? Did he take his finger, place it on the map, shut his eyes, count to 10 and where it stopped is where he selected a locale without radio service? There are a number of little incorporated towns without radio service in the Triad. Danbury--literally in the shadow of Sauratown Mtn--has no radio service. There's also Walnut Cove, Walkertown, Oak Ridge, Stokesdale, Summerfield--much of which and others that are actually closer to the tower.
The choice of Clemmons was made because it has decent population, no radio station, and was within the 35 mile radius for a studio near the Greensboro airport. The choice of COL means little these days other than to get around the FCC rules.
Transmitter location is not as critical in that aspect as the studio. For CC, the mountain made sense because there is already a facility there - might even be duplexing the antenna with WTQR. Saves tons of money not to have to buy extra land, and build a tower.
The only true relationship to Clemmons is the name on the license!
Transmitter location is not as critical in that aspect as the studio. For CC, the mountain made sense because there is already a facility there - might even be duplexing the antenna with WTQR. Saves tons of money not to have to buy extra land, and build a tower.
The only true relationship to Clemmons is the name on the license!
If I interpret the WFMX CP right, they are diplexing on WTQR's antenna and are also able to diplex on their auxillary antenna. I wonder if they went so far as to impliment IBOC?
That is certainly the least expensive way to do it - add a tranmitter and diplexer instead of tansmitter, land, tower, antennas and transmission line. Couldn't they also use some of the same STL setup?
As for IBOC - why wouldn't they? With a new transmitter anyway - not that much more expensive to go digital. Likely not taking advantage of it yet, but I suspect it is there.
As for IBOC - why wouldn't they? With a new transmitter anyway - not that much more expensive to go digital. Likely not taking advantage of it yet, but I suspect it is there.
Yes, you can add a codec to an analog stl and push 4 to 6 channels of audio through it. Adding IBOC ain't cheap though, broadcasters even have to pay a license fee to Ibquity for the privledge of using it.
True .. but it would be cheaper to do it now when you are building a new site - new transmitter - than to come back and add it later. I am sure CC has some sort of group royalty deal that makes it less expensive per station. I would also suspect they could add the hardware, not activate it, and avoid the royalty until they were ready to roll it out on the channel.
Hey, maybe they could recreate WMFX on HD2!?!?
Hey, maybe they could recreate WMFX on HD2!?!?
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longjohnmaroon
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I understand that all of the CC stations in Greensboro including WFMX are already broadcasting in HD and will be adding second channels with separate formats in a few weeks.
Here in Durham, WFMX (or should I say WMKS?) battles with WRSF "Dixie 105.7"--- a country station out toward the coast--- and neither signal comes in too well; I just get mostly static. The "new" WFMX comes in clearer in western Orange County going into Alamance County, same as for WGBT, whose 94.5 signal is eclipsed in this area by WQDR's signal at 94.7. I suspect the reason WFMX/WMKS doesn't come in too well is the weakness of the signal (34,000kw instead of the 100,000kw they broadcast with in Statesville).
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