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Standards back in Asheville, sort of

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vchimpanzee

I was trying to find information about a second set of translators for WCQS, the NPR station in Asheville. I used to listen to that station on 95.3 but one year I heard music there instead of talk shows and eventually discovered the talk shows I wanted were on 102.9.

When I couldn't find anything online, I contacted WCQS. The person who responded said the only station at 95.3 she knew about was Q-95.3 in Hendersonville. This is a station that used to play standards but switched to talk during the day and if they played music it was at night, when the AM signal was much weaker. I hadn't tried the AM signal in years since I discovered an oldies station in Asheville, and I don't know if the FM would work, though translators have a better signal in the mountains than where the tower isn't as high.

But I checked the web site and the last songs played were all standards, or at least oldies that have been played on standards radio for years.

I didn't try either station this year when I was in the mountains because I didn't know.
 
The 95.3 you probably remember is their old translator west of Waynesville. It covered a lot of territory because the frequency was clear and the transmitter was high up. They changed frequency to 102.9 recently as Western Carolina U. was awarded a full power license for 95.3 in Dillsboro. There's now a 102.9 translator in Asheville now, too, limiting the range on both translators. It appears that WCU plans to move WWCU to the 95.3 frequency and then sell the 90.5 frequency to WCQS.

The 95.3 translator the person mentioned may be Hendersonville. It was originally awarded to WCQS, but they ended up with 4 in Hendersonville, and sold 95.3 to WTZQ and 107.7 to WHKP. WCQS is on 99.3 and WCQS-HD2/WYQS is on 103.1.
 
Who do you think I was hearing when I was listening to 95.3 several years ago before I knew what was happening? It sounded like some alternative music show of the type that would be on an NPR station. Maybe because I didn't consider the possibility that the translator was gone, I thought it was a translator for a music service that was connected with WCQS. I'm almost certain I heard someone say that's what it was.
 
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