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WDCL-FM 89.7 WKU Public Radio- New Transmitter

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tripelo

Reported on Jakes TV Blog:

WDCL-FM is installing a new transmitter. No details provided.

Wonder if anyone has any technical details?

What instigated the transmitter upgrade?

Last time I checked, which was a few weeks back, the station signal seemed below par for a 100 kW station. And, at that time the signal was weaker than it had been in years past. As I recall, they are licensed for 100 kW circular polarization.

Also, the city of license is Somerset, but the transmitter/antenna is actually located in the north-central region of Adair county.
 
jwhite6069 said:
WDCL always seemed unusually strong in Barren County....
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Jwhite, thanks for your comments.

The signal observations I made were infrequent, and may not have been representative.

The observation location is in Russell County about 13 miles to the southeast of WDCL's transmitter site. Historically, at this location. WDCL's signal level was ~15 dB stronger than any other station.

The reason for my interest in signal strength was that a TV antenna had to look through the WDCL transmitter site to receive VHF DTV stations from Louisville. WDCL's signal was strong enough, that without extra preventive measures, could cause nonlinearity in a low noise VHF preamp.

Last time I checked (latter part of 2012), WDCL's signal level was being received only slightly stronger than a typical FM station.

I am not in KY at the moment, but guess will have to continue to keep a watchful eye on WDCL.

I do occasionally listen to public radio and think public radio is a good thing.
 
Doesn't WDCL on WKSO-TV use the same tower? I can't really remember. For that matter isn't WGRB's (now WBKI) old tower somewhere in that same area?
 
jwhite6069 said:
Doesn't WDCL on WKSO-TV use the same tower? I can't really remember. For that matter isn't WGRB's (now WBKI) old tower somewhere in that same area?
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Well, I did some research myself...and apparently WDCL and WKSO-TV do Not use the same tower......That being said I still wonder what ever happened to the Old WGRB-TV 34 tower?
 
jwhite6069 said:
......That being said I still wonder what ever happened to the Old WGRB-TV 34 tower?
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The WGRB tower is still there on the east side Campbellsville Road in Adair County, fairly close to Adair county line. Don't know if it is being used. Well, think ham radio club has some antennas on it.

That is nice tall tower.
 
How tall is the old WGRB tower anyways? I do remember WGRB ran 600kw on channel 34. I remember watching them when I was a kid in Edmonson County. I remember them calling themselves "The Pride of Kentucky".....oh boy. I remember at one time they even had a local newscast based in Campbellsville. I seem to also remember at onetime they were simucasted on WQQB 40 (now WNKY) in Bowling Green.
 
Nice article.

I did not know the height of the WGRB tower.

Have a photo taken last year, was just about to try to count color changes on the tower.

Until reading, 1,100 feet.

There are taller towers in KY, but probably not very many.
 
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