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Some minor FWB/Pensacola stuff.

tomservo

tomservo

Two panhandle area changes were in today's digest so I thought I'd mention them both here to save clutter.

First and foremost, I saw where WWAV has received a CP to move from Santa Rosa Beach west to the "Apex tower" where WPSM, WNCV, WHWY and WTKE are sited. They'll keep 50 kW and gain some height. If built out, the trees and beach mice out towards PCB will lose the station but the upshot is better coverage around Eglin and rimshotting Pensacola.

The second is a Pensacola-bound translator has finally come un-stuck but the latest update may not be cause for excitement. W277CC on 103.3 had been hung up, with the facility listed as being on the WYCT stick, rebroadcasting that station. It now has a CP to make the hop right on into "the upside of Florida" (snicker)… but instead of WYCT it now shows WDWR-AM. It's also sited to be on their AM tower.

I realize that could change again with another minor modification, but if it picks up the Catholic programming that'll dash any hopes of this bringing a new (commercial) format to FM in town.
 
Is the WWAV app directional at all? I remember that 102.1 in Citronell could only move 1-2 miles east because of WWAV... thus limiting it's potential in Mobile and causing Micky Mouse to sell it to Jimmy Swaggart. If WWAV can move 15+ miles to Hollywood with a full 50k it seems like the smart money would be for Swaggart to move his 102.1 closer to Mobile and pay Apex off to drop power to 25k or even 6k...
Where does this leave 103.1's move to the WWAV tower?

Isn't the WDWR (WBOP for the old timers) tower about 3 blocks from ADX's WNRP tower? Is it possible that the WDWR tower is taller or something and ADX is putting it there to rebroadcast News Talk 1620?
Assuming ADX's 106.5 translator up in Milton is useful, it would also make since to cash out on an extra translator.... Is it easier for a non-com to move around a translator than a commercial station?
 
WWAV's CP is not directional. I don't know what changed to allow them to move west, but whatever happened they jumped at the chance. It may be too late for WQUA now.

The WDWR tower is not only a little taller but it's got a great location right by I-110. I don't know why there'd be an advantage to listing a noncom station as the parent but it doesn't seem to be an uncommon practice.
 
Without changing their city of license, I can't see how this can fly. Santa Rosa Beach is 2.5 miles east of their current tower site...and the move to the west puts the distance from the tower to the center of Santa Rosa Beach AT LEAST 22-23 miles west. The city grade of a C2 is about 20 miles. The distance is too far.

Also...when I looked up the FCC ruling on WWAV, it shows approval of the CP then it shows it was "recinded" the same day due to "no letter".
 
yep.....here it is from the FCC website:

BPH 20120612ACP 301 E WWAV 19473 FM APPLICATION GRANT RESCINDED 07/16/2012
 
Besides being right on the edge of WQUA's protected contour, WWAV is short spaced to WAMI 102.3 FM in Opp (by quite a bit i believe). Without looking at a map I don't think the Hollywood tower would get them out of that pickle... Apex would have to get WAMI's blessing again to do this and WAMI might care this time... but, it's apparently all fallen apart already.

I wonder if someone just filed this by mistake while working on the 103.1 move or if possibly this application was really meant for 103.1 and would have been the next step after moving their antenna from Portland to San Destin. With station prices falling so much recently I guess I could see WOSM taking a cash payment from Apex to drop the 100kw CP and allow WZLB some more freedom.

Where's 92.1's antenna? If the WWAV tower is a piece of shit wouldn't it kinda make more sense for Apex to build a new tower, somewhere along Highway 98 near the Okaloosa/Walton county line perhaps, and put 92.1, 102.1 and 103.1 all on a common tower and leave 98.1 alone since WHWY already has the tallest antenna the FWB market will ever see?

There is a market for radio listeners in South Walton. Is Apex really willing to abandon it and give the whole hog to the Seabreeze?
 
92.1 is the odd duck in Niceville.

As far as I know 98.1 is on the same tower as WPSM, WNCV and WTKE. This is the same tower WWAV would have appeared on, too. This is on the south side of Hollywood Blvd. WKSM and WZNS are across the street on the north side and WYZB is just east of these towers and is self-supporting.

What I want to know is how did it even get granted if it were a mistake? I mean, I can understand a mistaken filing (and paying of fees?) but the FCC wouldn't grant something like this in error. In theory.
 
Wow! The 92.1 tower is directly in line with a runway at the VLP airport! I always thought 92.1 had a tower somewhere on the east side of Destin... like a short tower near Kahuna's. Destin's 92.1 hasn't moved since WZEW moved off the Amsouth building in Mobile... and the Urban (WJJN) 92.1 in Dothan should be far enough away... wonder if Apex meant to move 92.1 to Hollywood instead of 102.1? Does it fit?

The argument could be made that there are too many broadcast towers between Tyndall, Eglin and NAS Pensacola. Get the FAA and possibly the Air Force to endorse the applications and perhaps the FCC would be flexible in allowing all these stations to break all the rules and co-locate at centralized tower farms like the one on Hollywood. That way pilots only have to avoid one or two areas instead of dozens. If one tower's strobies go out they can always rely on the strobies on the adjacent towers.... Makes sense to me, I'd sign off on that deal if I was a bureaucrat.

I'd also allow all the FM stations to jump up to 1 megawatt just to show Rob what it would do to his radio... if I was the head bureaucrat in charge.... ::)
 
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