The New WSRQ-FM

[Ai4i]

The former WZZS, Zolfo Springs FL has been WSRQ-FM since Monday and has been simulasting "The New SRQ" since.
We wonder whether they ever registered as non-com because the only messages we hear on them are for LECOM school.
It has been suggested by me on their FB page that they produce a map page with the three FM and two AM contours.
We are eager to get out to where they overlap with W295BH and compare the two audios flipping and flopping.
Perhaps they could do what all the 97.1s in St. Pete had been doing.
(thanks to badjef for turning me on to this)

 

[PHIL Z]

They are owned by Lecom, who also owns a Non commercial station in Erie Pa. With the same DJ'S.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

The former WZZS, Zolfo Springs FL has been WSRQ-FM since Monday and has been simulasting "The New SRQ" since.
We wonder whether they ever registered as non-com because the only messages we hear on them are for LECOM school.
It has been suggested by me on their FB page that they produce a map page with the three FM and two AM contours.
We are eager to get out to where they overlap with W295BH and compare the two audios flipping and flopping.
Perhaps they could do what all the 97.1s in St. Pete had been doing.
(thanks to badjef for turning me on to this)

I wanna know who sold them on the fact owning radio stations was such a good idea and how much money theyre losing every month?

 

[rfrus]

WSRQ is a Non-Com

WSRQ has converted its status to Non-Commercial with the FCC. This was done several months ago.

 

[badjef]

WSRQ is running synchronous transmissions with its stations.

Supposedly, if you have the correct radio, it will automatically jump to the stronger signal regardless of the stronger being on a different frequency.

The 106.9's can be heard seamlessly from Anna Maria Island to Sebring, with a weak, but listenable area around Myakka City, and without the delay echo you would expect when two stations battle for your radio.

The nicest thing about it is that you can manually switch between the 1220, 95.9 and 106.9 and not miss a beat.


Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[Yabadabado1]

Going by the the radio-locator.com map, it seems like the AM side is serving the fish population in the Gulf extremely well.

 

[davideduardo]

Going by the the radio-locator.com map, it seems like the AM side is serving the fish population in the Gulf extremely well.

WSRQ is non-directional. The high conductivity of salt water is what creates the huge lobe over the water. On land with uniform ground conductivity, the coverage area would be nearly a perfect circle.

 

[Yabadabado1]

WSRQ is non-directional. The high conductivity of salt water is what creates the huge lobe over the water. On land with uniform ground conductivity, the coverage area would be nearly a perfect circle.

Yep, totally forgot about that. As I get older, my brain is becoming more gerbil like.

 

[Ai4i]

Yep, totally forgot about that.

AND...
The ratio of land coverage to saltwater coverage increases tremendously with frequency.
It is insignificant over water but extremely significant over land.

 

[badjef]

WSRQ is non-directional. The high conductivity of salt water is what creates the huge lobe over the water. On land with uniform ground conductivity, the coverage area would be nearly a perfect circle.

The call WSRQ is not over water anymore.

The calls moved from 1450 to 1220 in 2006. What was originally WQSA is 1220 WSRQ and is back at Birky, technically, Herndon Ave., but nobody knows where that is...

1220 was a 2 tower directional is now a SLANT fed 770w/15w. from a single self supporter 3-footed, short cell tower.

There are 2 FM translators serving the Beautiful Sa-ra-so-ta!/Bradenton area and a Class A in Zolfo Springs as WSRQ-FM, the former WZZS. All synchronized.

Meanwhile over at City Island, 1450 changed the calls to WSDV and are currently, because who knows for how long, running a Top 40 as "103.9 KISS-FM".

AND, is diplexed with 1280 WTMY.


Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!