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Hey, great station. Are you guys still moving to 99.5? I ask on here because I believe I have seen the owner post on here. Anyway, good luck and hope to hear you guys loud and clear in northeast cola soon.

Dez
 
We sought permission to change to 99.5 in hopes that it would improve reception in Northeast and not suffer too bad in Irmo/Lexington.

It really improved Northeast in our tests. But any coverage we had in Irmo/Lexington disappeared on 99.5 because of Augusta/Aiken. We will not be implementing the frequency change to 99.5.

There are several possibilities in the near term: there is an outstanding proposal to allow existing LP100's to increase to LP250. The FCC proposal would not have let us take advantage of that because we are in City Center. However, all the comments were for the increase but against the geographic restrictions, so who knows what the commission will do on November 30th.

Another possibility would be to shift to 100.7. But we have to wait until the filing window opens because this is a major change.
 
I know the problems that happen when you make a minor change good on one hand bad on the other. We changed the 96.3 translator to 96.5 a few years ago which gave us much better coverage in three directions but caused us to loose coverage toward Harleyville and we still have people from Harleyville complain that they don't think it was good idea but everyone else in the other three directions loved it. Same thing happened when Miller changed his 97.7 translator to 97.3 which is a little over a mile from us. We had a lot of people start complaining that we were bleeding on WCOS 97.5 and that we needed to something with our station. I explained to them that the bleed over was caused by the 97.3 translator changing frequences, that it was not our translator and that it was operating with in FCC rules and only had bleed over for a short distance from their tower, trouble was there were three subdivisons close enough to receive the bleed over depending on the weather. In the end most all of them moved over to our station for country music.
 
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