The Best Signal In The Triangle Is...

[yankees]

What stations do you guys think has the best signal in the Triangle...and Greensboro people you can chime in on the best signal in the Triad.

I'll start... either 96Rock or 94.7QDR

 

[goldenear]

TQR @ 2,900 ft from Sauratown mountain.
Given the right atmospherics it has slammed DC.
Sounds good, too.

 

[Matt]

WPTF

It's hard to knock 50,000 watts on AM.

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV

 

[turkeydance]

oh yeah, like he said: PTF.
daytime: Salisbury, Yadkinville, way up in VA to Petersburg, all the way to the coast and down to Darlington.
nighttime: the sky's the limit. "back in the day": St. Thomas VI...constant/steady/strong.

 

[Sniffthamic]

98.7 is good no matter what format it is today for the triad.

101.5 maintains a good sound for a long time. It always has for the triangle.

 

[w00t]

96Rock's signal is horrible and always has been. It's the height of the tower I guess.

The best AM is of course WPTF. Tied for best FM is 100.7 WRVA and 101.5 WRAL.

I was listening to WRAL today as I drove across Lake Mattamuskeet... 130 miles from the transmitter.

 

[goatboy]

Triad: 98.7
Triangle: 101.5

 

[EncSpy]

triangle WRVA 100kw at 2000ft

triad WMAG 100kw at 1500ft

wkrr is directional to the north to protect the class c in roanoke...which is 93kw at 2000ft (directional to the south)..talk about shortspaced.....in reidsville both signals are a mush and you can hear them battling in northern parts of greensboro

 

[yankees]

Where are you at that you think 96Rock's signal is horrible woot? It's not horrible for me, I got it CLEAR all the way up to between Petersburg and Richmond, VA!

 

[yankees]

wkrr is directional to the north to protect the class c in roanoke...which is 93kw at 2000ft (directional to the south)..talk about shortspaced.....in reidsville both signals are a mush and you can hear them battling in northern parts of greensboro

Thats why I cant get them on my stereo at home, and I live in Durham, 'KRR should be clear in Durham
They are a 100k watter arent they

 

[realradioplayer]

I don't know about "best" (technically) ... but 94.1 has a MONSTER signal ... back in the WWGL days it made it to 4 states ... I don't know if they have tweaked it and changed it but 12-14 years ago it was HUGE.

 

[quadraphonic]

triangle WRVA 100kw at 2000ft

triad WMAG 100kw at 1500ft

I was going to say the same thing, just without the power and tower heights.

 

[RadioDze]

Definitely WRVA-FM. It makes it inside the I-495 Capital Beltway to the north and is one of the first Raleigh-area stations you get on the way back from the Hampton Roads area. WRAL-FM and WQDR do very well too. Both are so high on the TV 5 analog tower that their power is cut to 96 kW

For AM, WPTF 680 and daytime only WDRU 1030. WETC 540 and WDNC 620 get out pretty well too with their low dial positions.

 

[EncSpy]

wkrr is directional to the north to protect the class c in roanoke...which is 93kw at 2000ft (directional to the south)..talk about shortspaced.....in reidsville both signals are a mush and you can hear them battling in northern parts of greensboro

Thats why I cant get them on my stereo at home, and I live in Durham, 'KRR should be clear in Durham
They are a 100k watter arent they

KRR is directional to the NORTH..not the east....they actually put a pretty strong signal into the triangle, you shouldn't have no problems getting them in durham...WKRR is 100kw @ 1300ft..it is also one of the stronger signals in the area

a lot of stations don't go as far as they used to...the "noise floor" has risen in recent years.. from the FCC squeezing allocations in everywhere. For example yesterday morning, the little LPFM that could, WEJM 106.1 Greensboro, could not make it to the 85/40 business/US 70 split...its about 1-1/2 miles from its transmitter..WYTT 99.5 Emporia VA barely makes it down to roanoke rapids to the studio on most summer mornings because of greenville, I keep telling the PD to just crank the tx power up on those mornings...hell..they are only using about 10% of its capable power anyway.

WRVA is a monster...you can see their tower while driving down 64 from rocky mount!

WKSL 93.9 and WZTK have very impressive signals as well

 

[w00t]

Where are you at that you think 96Rock's signal is horrible woot? It's not horrible for me, I got it CLEAR all the way up to between Petersburg and Richmond, VA!

It's awful to the east. I don't think it's all that great westward either... IIRC it usually falls out before the other triangle FMs.

 

[w00t]

WKSL 93.9 and WZTK have very impressive signals as well

The old WKSL and WDCG signals from Chatham County were better for the triad than parts of the Raleigh market, but I'm very impressed with the reach of the new signal. How's it carrying westward? Still getting into Greensboro?

 

[fingar]

wkrr is directional to the north to protect the class c in roanoke... ....in reidsville both signals are a mush and you can hear them battling in northern parts of greensboro

You're right about the signal mash in north Gso
Rock 92 (WKRR) and K92 (WXLK Roanoke) are both on 92.3 and krr was originally an Asheboro license, so it always leaned south of the Triad.

 

[triadradionewsman]

WPTF

It's hard to knock 50,000 watts on AM.

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV

WPTF has a monster of a signal, I listen to it in Eastern Greensboro instead of WSJS or WSML (until Bill Lemay comes on).
Why isn't the WTRU 830 daytime signal comparable to WPTF? You can barely pick it up in downtown Greensboro in the afternoon. I realize WPTF's lower dial position is part of the difference in signals, but both stations are supposedly 50K and the 830 signal has lots of problems in Greensboro and Guilford county (are the Eppersons too cheap to run full power?). Also while on the subject of Triad/Triangle signals, does anyone remember when WRAL operated with 200,000+ watts and was primarily used as a feed station for the NCNN. What year did they reduce power?

 

[RadioDze]

While I'm not certain when WRAL-FM halved their power, I'll venture a guess it was in, or no later than, 1978 when the 2,000-foot WRAL-TV tower was completed, replacing the adjacent, shorter (I believe 1,500-foot) structure TV-5 had used since its 1956 sign-on. WRAL-FM was side-mounted at the 1,840-foot level of the new tower with a 100,000-watt signal.

In 1989, uneven thawing of that December's ice storm brought the WRAL tower down, along with another that supported then-NBC affiliate WPTF-TV 28. WRAL-FM temporarily moved to the old WPTF-TV tower in Apex (which now stands in Rolesville as the WCPE-FM tower) while WRAL and the former WPTF-TV (now WRDC) completed a joint 2,000-foot tower. WRAL-FM's antenna at the new, joint WRAL/WPTF-TV tower was mounted at, I think 1,868 feet. However high it is now, it was high enough to constitute a slight drop in power to the current 96,000 watts. TV 28's then-sister FM station, WQDR 94.7, dropped their power from 100,000 watts to 96,000 watts as well when they moved from Apex (they never operated from TV 28's old tower in Garner for some reason) to a higher perch on the new joint tower.

 

[EncSpy]

WKSL 93.9 and WZTK have very impressive signals as well

The old WKSL and WDCG signals from Chatham County were better for the triad than parts of the Raleigh market, but I'm very impressed with the reach of the new signal. How's it carrying westward? Still getting into Greensboro?

both stations still put a very listenable signal in greensboro, I cannot get WKSL in winston-salem anymore..but even on the old tower, it was barely listenable in winston