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Storm warnings/EAS

AugC said:
and likewise....we monitor WHKO:) WKXA and WDFM.

what signal HKO has! NCI can be recieved only during a good tropo....we have WTGN 97.7 right down the road!
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WHKO's signal is what it is, because our founder, the late Gov. James M. Cox got us on the air at 50,000 watts on a 1,000 foot stick on the highest hill in the area before the FCC changed the rules and lowered the maximum allowable tower height.

WNCI got it's 175,000 watt power the same way. That is why WNCI will never move it's antenna off Plaza One in Columbus. If it did, they'd have to drop to 50,000 watts, since they would lose the benefits of "grandfathering".
 
Jason Roberts said:
AugC said:
and likewise....we monitor WHKO:) WKXA and WDFM.

what signal HKO has! NCI can be recieved only during a good tropo....we have WTGN 97.7 right down the road!
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WHKO's signal is what it is, because our founder, the late Gov. James M. Cox got us on the air at 50,000 watts on a 1,000 foot stick on the highest hill in the area before the FCC changed the rules and lowered the maximum allowable tower height.

WNCI got it's 175,000 watt power the same way. That is why WNCI will never move it's antenna off Plaza One in Columbus. If it did, they'd have to drop to 50,000 watts, since they would lose the benefits of "grandfathering".
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WHKO and WNCI's signals remind me of the signals out west which are mostly all class C's; but I can often listen to K99 clearly well into Kentucky on I-75 past the outlet mall. A friend of mine up in Auglaize county can often times pull in WNCI clearly on just a Bose Wave radio.

Out west, I know a fella in Goodland, Kansas just over the Colorado - Kansas state lines. He often tells me that he knows the weather is going to take a turn for the worst when he can pick up Denver FM's (specifically 98.5 KYGO, 97.3 KBCO) on his factory Ford radio in his pickup truck. Of course the stations don't come in well at all, but its proven to him to be a sure bet that bad weather is on its way long before he hears about it on TV or radio.
 
There is no way you could have picked up WNCI almost to Ashtabula, it's in the far NE corner of the state and I-71 doesn't go anywhere near it. Maybe you meant Ashland?
 
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