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WCGR on FM?

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JohnW

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A scan of the AM dial this afternoon found WCGR 1550 in Canandaigua playing satellite oldies and saying that they were Canandaigua's Oldies Station at 104.5. The FCC website shows some translators on that frequency. Did something change recently?
 
Alan Bishop made the switch last year (summer). AM 1550's signal was spotty at best throughout Canandaigua, especially in the morning, so the FM translator allows the signal to be carried into Victor. Some of the news/talk syndicated programming (Savage Nation) had to be eliminated because of conflicts with WHAM.
 
That 104.5 translator's signal really gets out there, too...I can hear it almost to the 84 Lumber shop on the west edge of Geneva, and it makes it southward all the way to the big hill just north of Rushville, too.

The FLRG has been a big fan of relaying AM's on FM translators. He's got WAUB doing it, too...and I think the Dundee AM is/was doing it but that xlator might've been moved to Ithaca to relay the new WFIZ signal he's got down there.
 
That translator's got a 200 watt ERP on a 120-foot tower--not quite the reach of a class A, but decent, and probably as effective as the 250 watt top-of-the-band AM signal it's relaying during daylight hours. It'll be interesting to see how many AMs use a similar strategy either to extend their hours or fill in the nulls in their signals while they're running their DA patterns. Looks like the door's open now...
 
Well, 200w ERP but it IS directional. CDBS says it's an Scala CA2-V FM...vertical dipole with a parasitic element. That's why the Rushville aspect is impressive...it's in the null of the antenna but still gets out there nicely.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W283BF&service=FX&status=L&hours=U

Oddly, there's no HAAT given in the CDBS...looks like they're on the WRSB (AM) towers, though. That's pretty high up, comparative speaking. Good spot for a translator. FWIW, the audio quality of WCGR (AM) is just atrocious...so muffled that it sounds like the bandwidth is barely 2kHz...but the audio quality of the 104.5 signal is quite excellent.
 
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