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Visited the delta yesterday

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mikl73

Was down in Ms yesterday for a Wedding in oxford and a visitation in Greenwood for a former jock at Max 99 and WDTL was off the air... 1410 was on I couldnt tell about 95.3 as I was scanning the band while i was up around Batesville and Oxford.

101.3 in Grenada dropped dead just after lunch and had dead air all afternoon even while a game was on 92.3....

QMA in Marks was on and coming in much better in Senatobia and Batesville than the last few times I checked them out... wonder if he worked out something with the FCC

WSAO is barely on the air i couldn't understand what Brother Ross was saying.... except the occasional WSAO Radio in Senatobia town

WROX was sounding nice... also noticed KCLT was on the same bird saturday playing blues part of the day

WGNL has a bad low freq hum

WYMX is exremely under modulated was awful during the game being out near the edge of their signal

WAID cut to news was awful ... cut in in the middle of a song and the middle of the new.. and cut out before the news was even over... they dont even care at Radio Cleveland anymore I dont think... Jim Gregory's weather sounded nice

WMJW's audio from the bird sounds rather bad... Much rather hear B100 or WBLE

I couldn't tell anything about WCMR since I only heard KJIW everytime I checked 94.5.
 
> WAID cut to news was awful ... cut in in the middle of a song and the middle of the new.. and cut out before the news was even over... they dont even care at Radio Cleveland anymore I dont think...

They never did. Their transitions in and out of the news, Paul Harvey, Tom Joyner, etc. are all done the same way. Have been for years.

And yes, WDTL is off. I don't know the whole story, but I heard they were moving furniture out of the building on Saturday.

LF
 
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One of the things that got WQMA in trouble with the FCC was running more power than he was licensed for. Perhaps he's still doing it.

WMJW is music-on-hard-drive (AudioVault), not satellite.

How is WROX's coverage with the new transmitter? I hear it's getting out better than ever.

LF
 
Larry the signal was pretty good in Senatobia and Batesville. The power lines in Batesville were trouble but not as much as you'd expect at that distance with 1 kw.

I will see if i your on top of Dyersburg again here in Memphis when I am out this afternoon. I will definatly give you a report back.. I know exactly what 1450 sounded like up here even back to the 80's

was always intresting driving to Memphis and listening to the signal as you go up the bluff... the bluff definataly interupts the groundwave a bit...There was always a very noticable drop in signal as you climb up it.
 
WDTL Off

I learned yesterday that WDTL-92.9 is off because the tower owner has evicted them from the tower. (Notice a pattern here?) I don't know how WRKG-95.3 continues to operate since they are on the same tower. Russell's empire continues to disentigrate.

LF
 
Geez, guys. You're really hard on me. I guess it's time to be hard on you all.

Michael,

Are you SURE you were listening to Power 106.5? Are you SURE you were listening to WAID? I don't know...if you can't tell the difference between satellite and MHD, maybe it's time to get yourself a new radio in your car.

Larry,

Never cared? Never cared? I'd like you to detail EXACTLY how you would put a 15 minute program (Paul Harvey) in a 3-1/2 minute spot set without chopping out of the satellite and then chopping back in. (Hint) It's impossible. You either chop into the program or you chop out...or both. Same thing for a 5 minute news cast. So what do we do? Tell ABC to make a 15 minute spot set in their format? (Hint) They aren't going to do it. I know that the BE AudioVault suxx to the max, but there is no automation system out there that will time compress 15 minutes into 3-1/2. And there's no guru out there who CAN do it.

So don't say "never cared". I did what I had to with what I had to work with. You could do no better in my position. So, in my opinion, being aloof and saying "never cared" is just nothing more than a cop out.
 
Michael said:
Was down in Ms yesterday for a Wedding in oxford and a visitation in Greenwood for a former jock at Max 99 and WDTL was off the air... 1410 was on I couldnt tell about 95.3 as I was scanning the band while i was up around Batesville and Oxford.

101.3 in Grenada dropped dead just after lunch and had dead air all afternoon even while a game was on 92.3....

QMA in Marks was on and coming in much better in Senatobia and Batesville than the last few times I checked them out... wonder if he worked out something with the FCC

WSAO is barely on the air i couldn't understand what Brother Ross was saying.... except the occasional WSAO Radio in Senatobia town

WROX was sounding nice... also noticed KCLT was on the same bird saturday playing blues part of the day

WGNL has a bad low freq hum

WYMX is exremely under modulated was awful during the game being out near the edge of their signal

WAID cut to news was awful ... cut in in the middle of a song and the middle of the new.. and cut out before the news was even over... they dont even care at Radio Cleveland anymore I dont think... Jim Gregory's weather sounded nice

WMJW's audio from the bird sounds rather bad... Much rather hear B100 or WBLE

I couldn't tell anything about WCMR since I only heard KJIW everytime I checked 94.5.
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WCMR is still off the air after being bought out. Supposed to be back on sometime this fall with some sort of religous format. We still miss it locally.
 
Simple. If you only have a 3-1/2 minute hole, you don't carry 15-minute programs.

I heard a station in Arkansas that carried Paul Harvey - they tape delayed it and started it at a natural break in the sat programming, then ran appropriate fill after it until a natural rejoin point. It didn't sound nearly as sloppy as the Radio Cleveland method.

> You could do no better in my position.

I could, and I did. WDSK used to put a 9-minute program (CBS World News Roundup) in a 6-minute hole, and we did it in such a way that nobody ever noticed. It just takes creativity and the desire to make your radio station sound good, rather than settling for more of the usual.

LF
 
bat_guano said:
Geez, guys. You're really hard on me. I guess it's time to be hard on you all.

Michael,

Are you SURE you were listening to Power 106.5? Are you SURE you were listening to WAID? I don't know...if you can't tell the difference between satellite and MHD, maybe it's time to get yourself a new radio in your car.

Larry,

Never cared? Never cared? I'd like you to detail EXACTLY how you would put a 15 minute program (Paul Harvey) in a 3-1/2 minute spot set without chopping out of the satellite and then chopping back in. (Hint) It's impossible. You either chop into the program or you chop out...or both. Same thing for a 5 minute news cast. So what do we do? Tell ABC to make a 15 minute spot set in their format? (Hint) They aren't going to do it. I know that the BE AudioVault suxx to the max, but there is no automation system out there that will time compress 15 minutes into 3-1/2. And there's no guru out there who CAN do it.

So don't say "never cared". I did what I had to with what I had to work with. You could do no better in my position. So, in my opinion, being aloof and saying "never cared" is just nothing more than a cop out.
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I dont listen to 107.5... never have.... so I really dont know what the music is on.. i just know it sounds bad..

and yes I know what WAID sounds like when its not sitting with dead air

Your listeners may or may not care what they hear. The people I know in the delta don't listen to much radio.
They are the type who want to turn it on and hear a school lunch menu, the news, the weather, a live voice and some music.
I'm not sorry your offended by my comments. What I said was not intended as an attack.. its my own observation
Take it constructively or don't take it at all.
anyway what's really achieved by the return attack?

Its perfectly fine to blame your tools... work with what you have.. we all have had to before
it doesnt mean you should attack anyone else it just shows you have some bigger issues that should never be addressed on a message board
Make the news sound better and no one will have anything to say about it.

and most of all loosen up... you're with your brothers on here everyone knows what its like to be in this business.
 
WQMA working something out with the FCC? HAHAHA ;D

Too bad one of the trick-or-treaters at the door on Halloween wasn't the FCC... "Trick Or treat, we're here to shut you down!"

Look very carefully at Picture #2 in the 2nd row:
http://myweb.cableone.net/jkonarz/q1520radiocom/halloweenfun.html

Do you see a problem? You'll hafta look VERY closely....To figure it out, look at the other studio pictures.

It's more of what's implied by the pictures then anything else..
 
Hi all,

As I told everyone here years ago, I try not to repeatedly debate the operation of WQMA with Paul Walker on numerous message boards. I believe his online and offline actions are unprofessional, and although I've never been called as a reference on his past behalf by any person considering working with Paul Walker, I would have a number of things to tell.

All I will say here is that Paul was asked to leave by Donna (despite things hes said here otherwise), he left, and apparently this has been a pattern with him for other stations. He definitely trashed the WQMA station building on his exit costing me hundreds in cleanup expenses, and Paul himself was responsible for losing the portions of the public file noted by the FCC. Something oddly enough he's since blamed me for publicly.

It wasn't anyone being mean asking Paul to leave. Paul just didn't get along with anyone in the county. There were lawsuits with him and others here. Police were involved on more than one occasion. None of this involved me either. I was just trying to figure out what was going on from the sidelines.

Every task that he was asked to do at WQMA was done incorrectly. He would sleep through the weather reports. He would forget to enter CD's for the weekend. I found out when he left that he was having gay friends call in specifically to harrass people involved in WQMA religious programming (he admitted this to me when leaving for whatever reason). He's called syndicators when he's SUSPECTED us of not running all of their ads after he left. In reality, he just didn't know their break times.

Very unprofessional. There is little positive that I can say about Paul. Paul was directly responsible for my personal financial difficulties for about a year by chasing off every other person working with the station but one. As a result, many sponsors also left. The station income went down more than 75% during the period when people were leaving as a result of Paul.

He has a definite tone to all of his posts. I could say more here that would explain more about Paul's actions - why he personally obsesses over the station instead of letting it go - but it really isn't appropriate.

To Larry,

I can assure you the power levels at the transmitter are correct. They were never purposely incorrect. I was told by an engineer working with the station that we could compensate for signal loss by adjusting the transmitter. The levels on the signal reading meter were never overpowered. WQMA was never attempting to get more coverage than it was licensed for, nor did it ever. The levels on the transmitter itself were higher during the inspection but there was signal loss between the transmitter and tower. The power levels have been set correctly at the transmitter since the day of the FCC inspection.

My responsibility here is that I should not have taken the engineers advice as correct. It did make sense to me at the time that it could be correct but I was wrong. I accept that, have admitted it, and have corrected it. In retrospect, I have received a lot of bad engineering device and not all from one person. I'm pretty sure it was Kirk Harnack that once told me I could round off sunrise/sunset times instead of following exact times as noted - if not, it was another engineer. I am unfortunately not an engineer. And I didn't know all of the many rules backwards and forwards.

To Michael,

Since you brought up darkness, the signon/signoffs are 100% to the minute correct with the AM signal currently. But the station also supplies programming to a cable system in another state, and elsewhere.

To everyone else,

Sorry for responding because it just means Paul will create another thousand posts about WQMA now on this board. I try to leave this board alone for that reason but occasionally the inaccuracy of certain messages bothers me. Of COURSE we are working with the FCC. Very polite people there have told me that they hate to see fully functioning operating stations go dark. Of course they also have to enforce the rules, and they did.

Paul,

Please no emails. No I do not want to sell WQMA for $20,000 and no/little money down. I have tried to be polite and tell you many times privately that it would not work for you anyway. During many months here, you obtained one sponsor. And they called the station first - you just answered.

Hope this helps,

Jason
WQMA
 
For the record Jason I have not observed the station on the air after sunset in at the very least 1 1/2 yrs could be longer....

Don't be sorry for responding.. You have provided us all with answers and erased doubts of what is going on. I understand your concern for getting caught up in a certain circle of drama. Feel free to contact me anytime off the board. If you no longer have my email address I will send it to you again.
 
Jason: Whoever told you that you could crank up the power to compensate for line loss was an idiot. An AM's licensed power is the output power of the transmitter. And no, Kirk Harnack never told you that you could "round off" sunrise/sunset times. The times specified on the license are already rounded off - they are a monthly average of the times of sunrise/sunset at your location, as determined by the FCC. By the way - I still never got back much of the equipment from WROX that went missing during your LMA. As the LMA operator, you were responsible for it. For he record, I'm missing an Optimod 2200 and an LPB console, among other things. Did you sell them on e-bay?

Larry
 
Oh wow, this thread makes me want to grab a sandwich, kick my feet up and watch what happens! :eek:
 
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How is WROX's coverage with the new transmitter? I hear it's getting out better than ever.

LF
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Larry,

ROX is audible here although it's with a HET from WTRO DYERSBURG. (about 80 air miles)

WROX's signal is back about where I remember it being just after the new tower was raised and where it was for the old tower back when Doc was still around to keep things in order.
It's impressive for 1kw.. there aren't many 1kw'ers aubible at that distance.... (75 air miles)

I dont think there is much more you could do to make it better than it is other than running a copper strap into the Sunflower River..lol
 
Hmm, that's an idea Michael. I'll be down there to help you lay that copper strap ;)
 
get ready to dig about 200 yards through Mississippi gumbo

I dont think I want that job.. I'll sit at my desk and push buttons and talk Thanks
 
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