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WCPS-AM Tarboro, NC - FM Translator in Rocky Mount reception...

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B Lewis

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Hi All! I think it is great that Tarboro's WCPS-AM 760 has the FM translator on 105.7 in Rocky Mount. With their old school approach to R&B and Gospel Music and tradition of service to the local African American community, I believe the FM will service the station and its audience well. In looking it up, I found the translator W289BL on 105.7 with 250 watts at about 280 feet above the ground and above average terrain. With that in mind, I have an interesting reception report. For several days, I have been hearing the translator in Roanoke Rapids. Not with a crystal clear signal, but with at least a semi-listenable signal. All of this was on a standard receiver in a Dodge Caravan. My home, which is about 12 miles south of Roanoke Rapids, and roughly 12 miles closer to Rocky Mount; I can only hear it punch in and out, under Dixie 105.7's dominant signal. However, in the city of Roanoke Rapids, at a Food Lion on Highway 158 (about a 1/2 mile from I-95), I was hearing this translator fairly well. In fact, I heard the dual ID for the AM and the translator with the translator call sign at 3pm this past Friday afternoon. They were playing a blend of 60's and 70's R&B with a little Southern Soul sprinkled in (typical fare for WCPS). I am just wondering how I am getting the FM signal so well from over 40 miles north of their tower. If it only happenned once, I would write it off as strange weather, a skip, UFO's, or something like that. But, this has been over a period of several days, during the afternoon hours. In fact, the signal I was getting from WCPS (FM) was better than that of Nash Community College's WNIA. How do you guys think WCPS's FM signal will affect the station's future? I do see it as a tool for potential growth. Has anyone else been able to get a long-distance read on this 250 watt blowtorch?

Thanks!
 
WCPS has a great history in Tarboro..I applaude the owners for trying something a little different...I hope this FM signal helps them.I listen often and enjoy alot of the programming...I'd love to find some old WCPS airchecks..Back in the day it was a killer station...

Allen
 
Little Known Fact:

When Curtis dropped music from WPTF in the mid 90's, he sent all of the music carts to WCPS for its new Full-Service format.
 
It SEEMS like there was some kind of agreement between Curtis and First Media, where First Media managed some of their stations. I may be wrong, but WCPS was one of them. I think I remember hearing David Perkins and some of the other Rocky Mount First Media voices on the station years back.

I believe you are right about the talk programming. I could be wrong, but it seems like I remember hearing Rush, and the typical conservative fare on WCPS then.

I wonder if those music carts are still around and what kind of shape they are in. I remember WPTF during the full service days. Probably the best 'full service' I remember hearing in this region was a tie for me; WPTF and WRVA/Richmond. I remember thinking how great a job RVA did mixing mainstream AC music with lots of talk and calls. It seems like WPTF's music was a little lighter, more like the old MOR format.
 
WSJS played Prince's 'Diamonds and Pearls' a few times during the end of its full-service run. Pretty cool stuff back in the 90's from a stodgy old AM.
 
I heard WCPS on FM Thursday sitting in the parking lot at Food Lion in Winterville..It was battling with Dixie 105.7??? but it was very audible...
 
WCPS a very neat station to say the least...their AM always goes off the air extremly early..even during the summer months its common for them to be off the air at 5pm...I bet that translator is skipping, tropo has been up for the past few weeks..in my area theres a station 80miles away decoding in HD AND overpowering a 100kw local less than 10 miles from their Tower

speaking of curtis/first media..doing some digging I found that there is a STL from WCPS tower to the WRSV/WRQM Tower.. Parent station WFXK with the callsign WLF841...there is also a STL leading from the WFXK tower outside of nashville to downtown rolesville callsign WLE213...all with receive heights of 0ft but still listed as "active"
 
The WCPS translator is listenable in places around Roanoke Rapids on a regular basis. They are more clear than the Nash Community College signal on 89.1. That is some 250 watter! I never heard them here, when it was His Radio, but I think it was only 10 watts then and on 105.3.
 
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