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Station Loggings

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Rob

Can someone help me fill in what I could have been picking up?

http://rob.luniac.com/

I'm near Pensacola, FL and skip was up last night (and probably tonight)

Take a look at my loggings and see.

-Rob
 
Rob--Here is a partial list. I was in Panama city area in 2003, and i occasionally hear some of these via skip or in a couple cases, regularly:88.5-WBHY-FM, Mobile, AL; 89.9-WJTF, Panama City,FL; 92.5-WPAP, Panama City, FL .95.3 poses a question mark because in '99 or 2000, I heard our own WZNF, Gulfport/Biloxi, MS from Destin, FL.They had a CP to go 100,000 watts from an 1100+ ft tower. 95.9-WRBA, PCB. 98.5-WFSY also PCB. 101.1-WYOO. 105.9 was indeed WILN aka "Island 106". 106.5--the classic rock log could have been WAVH, in the Mobile area. 106.7 sounds like it could have been WKMX, Enterprise, AL. Finally, something that I have wanted to do that you may have accomplished--the counttry log on 107.9 might have been our own WZKX, Gulfport/Biloxi, MS. "Kicker 108" also having a CP for a higher tower recently. Hope this info might have helped you some.73.
 
I thought it was enterprise (107 the country side) it's warm and foggy here and some of my ham friends told me to bring out the radio and sure enough.

Too bad 93.7 can't get a CP to get a bigger tower or a translator in Fort Walton. This area needs an FM news talker.

Now on the MW side, could the 650 be WSM? Note this was done during the daytime as I don't care about the yaa yaa yaaas that invade our nighttime radio (Mexico) All though, I did hear music on MW 900 but the announcer was speaking spanish. This new radio I have really kicks the lamas ass.

-Rob
 
Rob-I've gotten WSM a number of times from Englewood Beach FL from 1/2 to 1 hr before local sunset, a distance of 600 mi plus a number of times. All I know about FM in FLA is that the big sticks get out over 100 mi in what I would describe as "tropo light." We have a lot of nights where UHF's come in from 70-80 mi clear as a bell on a 99 cent bow tie but I don't get anything in the 200 mi plus range.
 
Do you happen to know what the music channel 900 is? Some mexico station that's strong here

Rob
 
and it makes me wonder why our AM is so limited @ night.

if were limited to 50KW why are some of the lower powered am forced to shut down or reduce.
and that's not right.

-Rob
 
hey rob...

have you ever heard of the FCC table of allocations?
think of radio coverage as a big puzzle: there are some large pieces scattered around (high power)...
and some tiny, non-significant pieces mixed in, too.
they all have to fit...and can't be changed at will

ok, bad analogy...but you should read a little bit about this before posting

as for outside of the US...there are agreements between the US, Canada, and Mexico...
and the Mexico City station is operating legally...as are the great majority of others
there's just too many of 'em...but only DXers notice
 
romer979fm said:
have you ever heard of the FCC table of allocations?
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Uh, there is no table of allocations for AM. The tables only exist for full-power FM and TV.

robfwb said:
if were limited to 50KW why are some of the lower powered am forced to shut down or reduce.
and that's not right.
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Because they're protecting someone who was there first. I'm sure WENO (my local station on 760, in Nashville) doesn't like having to go off the air at sunset to protect WJR in Detroit. But WJR was on 760 first, by several decades. They really don't deserve to lose a potentially profitable chunk of their audience to interference from a Nashville station that didn't show up until the 1970s.

A principle that's sometimes a bit difficult for the layman to understand is that the area in which a station can cause interference is MUCH greater than the area in which it can provide useful service. Especially on AM.
 
i'm aware of the agreements but it's just stupid. there is no clear AM station at night because WFTW drops to 250 watts (directional) though WWL comes in rather clean it gets bounced by the famous RR out of Cuba. (don't know where the translator is though)

Time for the rules to be changed to allow us to have fair play on the airwaves ... even though that will probably cause chaos at night (and it's bad enough)


and yet according to radio locator, i'm within the redzone of WFTW @ night (the local groundwave)

-Rob
 
Thee's been a mass migration from many of the northern cities that had the good fortune to best the best frequencies to the "sunbelt." If the airwaves are free why are they "grandfathered'" and why are the sunbelt cities continue to be "underserved" for the lack of a better term?
 
Rob, in addition to the other DXers helping with the unidentified FM stations you have on your list, all that you have are heard here in Fort Walton Beach most of the time too. I added info to your unknown stations copied from your list.






88.1 WUWF Pensacola NPR (strong)
88.5 UNKNOWN - Christian (weak) WBHY MOBILE AL "Power 88"

88.9 UNKNOWN - Christian (moderate) W205AS GULF BREEZE FL, 13 watts, translator for KAWZ Calvary Network

89.1 WFSW - Panama City (weak) heard with Christmas music from another station
89.5 WPCS - Pensacola Christian (strong)
89.9 UNKNOWN - Christian (weak) WJTF PANAMA CITY FL

90.1 WTJT-Christian (moderate)
90.5 WTGF Christian (strong)
90.7 WKGC NPR (moderate/weak)
90.9 WELJ? Christian (Weak)
91.1 WPSM Christian (Strong)
91.3 WHIL Mobile - NPR/Classic FM (Strong)
91.7 WEGS Christian (Strong)
92.1 WFFY Rap (Moderate)
92.5 UNKNOWN - Country (possibly PCB) - (Strong) WPAP PANAMA CITY FL

92.9 WBLX - Mobile - Rap (Strong)
93.3 WNCV - Adult Cont. (Strong)
93.5 UNKNOWN - Classic Rock (very weak) WPBH PARKER / PANAMA CITY FL "Rock 93-5"

93.7 WRJM - Evergreen/Geneva, AL Talk (Moderate)
94.1 WMEZ- Soft Rock/Deliaha (Moderate)
94.5 - two stations - NPR and WFLA PCB talk NPR is the new translator in FWB for 89.1 Panama City: W233BH FORT WALTON BEACH FL
170 watts
94.9 WKSJ Mobile, AL Country (Strong)
95.3 UNKNOWN - Classic Rock WZNF LUMBERTON / HATTIESBURG MS "Z 95.3"

95.7 WGCX Navarre, FL Christian (Strong)
95.9 UNKNOWN - Classic Rock (weak) WRBA SPRINGFIELD / PANAMA CITY FL "Arrow 95.9"

96.1 WRKH Mobile, AL Classic Rock (moderate)
96.5 WZNS CHR (Strong)
96.9 WDJR Enterprise, AL Country (Moderate)
97.5 WABB Mobile, AL CHR (Moderate/Strong)
98.1 WTKE Sports (Strong)
98.5 UNKNOWN - "SUNNY" PCB? christmas music weak WFSY PANAMA CITY FL

98.7 WYCT Country (Strong)
99.5 WKSM Rock (Strong)
99.9 WMXC Christmas Music Mobile, AL (Moderate)
100.1 UNKNOWN Soft Rock (weak) WVVE PANAMA CITY BEACH FL "Wave 100"

100.3 WKRN Classic Rock (Strong) call letters are WRKN
100.7 WJLQ POP (Strong)
101.1 UNKNOWN talk (weak) WYOO SPRINGFIELD / PANAMA CITY FL

101.3 UNKNOWN Country (moderate) WMSO MERIDIAN MS "Miss 101"
101.5 WTKX Rock (strong)
102.1 WWAV Classic Rock (moderate)
102.7 WXBM Country (moderate)
103.1 WMXZ CHR (moderate)
103.5 UNKNOWN Country (strong) WAKT CALLAWAY / PANAMA CITY FL

103.7 UNKNOWN Rock (moderate) "the fox" WUSW HATTIESBURG MS

104.1 WYOK Mobile, AL country (Strong)
104.7 WAAZ Crestview, FL Country (strong)
105.1 UNKNOWN - Oldies and Christmas Music oldies is WPFL CENTURY / PENSACOLA FL

Christmas (usually smooth jazz) WASJ PANAMA CITY BEACH FL

105.5 WYZB Country (Strong)
105.9 UNKNOWN CHR (Island 106) (moderate) WILN PANAMA CITY FL

106.1 WRRX Soul/RNB (moderate)
106.3 WSBZ Jazz (moderate
106.5: Unknown- Oyster Country WOCY CARRABELLE / APALACHICOLA FL
and Classic Rock WAVH DAPHNE / MOBILE AL "The Pirate"
106.7 UNKNOWN (weak)
107.3 WYCL Christmas Music (strong)
107.7 UNKNOWN - THE FOX (weak) WFXX GEORGIANA AL

107.9 WPFM? Panama City (moderate) and country coming in at times ... country would be WZKX BAY ST. LOUIS / BILOXI MS
 
will update the list soon.
thanks for your help. radio locator is a bitch as it limits you per day (gurr)

-rob
 
vibe said:
Thee's been a mass migration from many of the northern cities that had the good fortune to best the best frequencies to the "sunbelt." If the airwaves are free why are they "grandfathered'" and why are the sunbelt cities continue to be "underserved" for the lack of a better term?
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You own WWW AM-1530. It's a four-tower directional operation on 7 acres, and has been on the air from that site since 1947.

Next door is the Tower Point Mall. Built in 1965, the builders would like to have had a larger parking lot but the bus service was adequate to keep their stores profitable, and in any case there wasn't any other property available where there would be more parking.

Now, it's 2007. Tower Point is having problems. Nobody will ride the bus, so when their customers drive out, they can't find a parking space. They leave and take their business to North Towne Plaza. Tower Point must have more space for parking.

So they get the city to give them 3 acres of your land, including the ground under towers #1 and #4.

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1. I'll bet you wouldn't think the situation was fair.
2. I'll bet you wouldn't let it happen without using every legal and political tool at your disposal to stop it.
 
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