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The new Radio Now 98.9 is now receivable in Indianapolis

M

Mid West Clubber

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I live just 18 miles south of Indy and ive been getting 98.9 all weekend and still to this point, even while driving around. Did they get their Upgrade and move to the new TX out on the east end and get an upgrade to a Class C... I havent been able to get GEN X very well lately, and thats usually, previously the only station in the Ville I could get here in Indy, other than WAMZ Sometimes. Sometimes, very rarely Ive gotten DJX, QMF, and SFR, but only on extreme DX, and not stable enough to listen to reliably.
 
Mid West Clubber said:
I live just 18 miles south of Indy and ive been getting 98.9 all weekend and still to this point, even while driving around. Did they get their Upgrade and move to the new TX out on the east end and get an upgrade to a Class C... I havent been able to get GEN X very well lately, and thats usually, previously the only station in the Ville I could get here in Indy, other than WAMZ Sometimes. Sometimes, very rarely Ive gotten DJX, QMF, and SFR, but only on extreme DX, and not stable enough to listen to reliably.
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All they did was move it. It's technically a C2, but that's not an upgrade from a B. Both are 50 kilowatts with antennas 150 meters above average terrain.

But they moved it to essentially the same place as Gen-X. (On the next tower over). If you can receive one, chances are you'll have a similar signal level from the other.
 
Gen x is a little harder Greg, I have a closer station on 100.5 WWKI in KoKomo indiana, and I usually get a mixture of both when driving around, plus a second adjacent on 100.3 Korn Country.. Gen X usually winks out about 5 miles south of Columbus Indiana, as does DJX, but 98.9 keeps on going and going, i guess cause that dial position is still pretty open up this way. I wonder with it being mid day now, if I can still get it.
 
Where are those new towers Greg? Did I hear they are in Prospect??? If so, how did that get through City council & the 'not in my back yard' lovers?
 
radiotrumpet78 said:
Where are those new towers Greg? Did I hear they are in Prospect??? If so, how did that get through City council & the 'not in my back yard' lovers?
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I believe that 98.9 and 100.5 are both at the site of 790 AM, near the intersection of Taylorsville Road and the Gene Snyder Freeway in Louisville. The new 98.9 city of license is Prospect, but the transmitter is not located in Prospect.
 
radiotrumpet78 said:
Where are those new towers Greg? Did I hear they are in Prospect??? If so, how did that get through City council & the 'not in my back yard' lovers?
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{Edit- Wildcat guy beat me to it}


Gen-X and Radio Now are both on towers that have been standing for a very long time- part of the WAKY- 790 array.

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radiotrumpet78 said:
Where are those new towers Greg? Did I hear they are in Prospect??? If so, how did that get through City council & the 'not in my back yard' lovers?
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They were blocking school buses from crossing Harrods Creek!
 
I drove down Tucker Station Road south of Rehl Road for the first time today, and WNRW/Prospect was coming in loud, but not necessarily clearly on . . . 88.3! That's right, it was fighting off WARA/New Washington, which is actually on 88.3. It wouldn't surprise me to hear WNRW on 104.7, as WARA's Middletown translator isn't that far away (it's near Middletown Christian Church).

WNAS only fared slightly better, but WNRW was no match for WJIE.
 
William_Yeager said:
I drove down Tucker Station Road south of Rehl Road for the first time today, and WNRW/Prospect was coming in loud, but not necessarily clearly on . . . 88.3! That's right, it was fighting off WARA/New Washington, which is actually on 88.3. It wouldn't surprise me to hear WNRW on 104.7, as WARA's Middletown translator isn't that far away (it's near Middletown Christian Church).

WNAS only fared slightly better, but WNRW was no match for WJIE.
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98.9 - 88.3 = 10.6

Almost all superheterodyne FM receivers (virtually all receivers available) convert the frequency of the received signal to 10.7 Mhz.

Since radio stations are spaced every .2 MHz, there aren't any radio stations that are spaced 10.7 MHz from another. But there are some 10.6 and 10.8, and it is for this reason that FCC minimum mileage separations include spacing for not only those very near your frequency, but also those 10.6 and 10.8 MHz away.

What I'm saying is that this phenomenon was occurring in your receiver, and not something that WNRW was doing wrong. They aren't actually emitting power on 88.3, but when your receiver is tuned to 88.3 it is highly susceptible to receiving transmissions on 98.9. That's just the way it is.
 
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