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Central Jersey Something's fishy with 95.1 "WOLD" coverage map

"Oldies 95.1, WOLD" (actually W236CT, Edison, NJ) has this coverage map on their web site... and that's not how coverage maps work! Like "Sharpiegate", they drew extra lines to make it look like they have much better coverage to the North than their highly directional signal actually has, at least according to the FCC.

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Go onto FCCdata.org, enter the call sign and click "advanced map." You will see all the contours of the coverage of ANY station not just this particular one(s). Nothing "fishy" at all, other than someone trying to create an issue where one clearly doesn't exist... haven't you been down this road before with this station? Maybe the moderator needs to call you out again??

I'll venture a guess here, the map seems to me like it was from when the stations simulcast one another and otherwise outdated since they are 2 different stations with 2 different formats at present...

If you are that interested, there is a "Contact Us" link on the same site you referenced above. Did you think to reach to someone there with your inquiry or was this post on this forum more inline with whatever it is you are intending to accomplish/create?

#keyboardwarrior
 
Looks like that map has a major null to the NW which would limit even line of site coverage to about 1% (only 2.5 watts) limiting signal basically anywhere north of Route 287, less than 1 mile away, where there's a bridge over the railroad you can clearly see the tower.

Looks like they are seriously protecting WZZO but sending most of their signal toward WAYV instead.

There's a CP that moves it slightly (to New Brunswick)., Lowers it to 124w, with just a big null to the west, otherwise a nicely designed suburban map. (R-L image for CP of W236CT attached, didn't see it on FCCdata)

Unfortunately, I'm not in NJ at the moment, so I haven't had a recent opportunity to do some field testing for signal coverage of W236CT around the area (Not much listening since WOLD was on 107.9 a few years ago).

Tho I was able to test out W240CY from Warren earlier this year, who's 5 watt signal on 95.9 makes it up the mountains just barely above Route 78, or barely down the mountains to about Route 22 before the noise floor & then WRAT starts to take over the channel (Coverage Map Image for W240CY also attached - Mounatinous Terrain Limits Much of the Signal depicted)
 

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A post from May 14, 2024 by the moderator... pay extra close attention to the last sentence in the post by Lance, it pretty much says it all... maybe Santa can bring you a new hobby for Christmas. This one is more than redundant at this point.

 
A post from May 14, 2024 by the moderator... pay extra close attention to the last sentence in the post by Lance, it pretty much says it all... maybe Santa can bring you a new hobby for Christmas. This one is more than redundant at this point.

The W300CZ move that I was complaining about there was contingent upon WOLD-LP (not the same "WOLD" that's using a different translator on 95.1 -- yeah, it's confusing!) moving from 107.9 to 103.9 MHz, which hasn't happened yet, and the station isn't giving any on-air notice of it happening anytime soon.

And Lance was right in that both the current and proposed W300CZ signals are "legal" as far as the FCC is concerned in terms of overlapping contours, but that's obviously different than real-world coverage and interference to neighboring stations, especially when it comes to the wild wild west of FM translators squeezing in wherever there's a hole in the map.
 


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