WDUN coverage

[TerryKay]

I'm not in the ATL market (posting from Clearwater, FL). I've been hearing 550 WDUN in-and-out of the Cuban and others pre-sunrise and was wondering how good their day and night coverage is into metro ATL, being that they are licensed to GNV. Ground conductivity with all the granite?

 

[jabba17]

Check out this:

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=wdun&sr=Y&s=C

WDUN is only 10k day, and 2.5k night (directional SSE), but has a great signal--probably from being at the low end of the dial and being on relatively high ground (Gainesville being in the Appalachian foothills). I'd have to let someone else speak about ground conductivity in the area, but from what I have heard ATL doesn't have a lot of it.

In the NE Atlanta metro, WDUN comes in as good as any other AM besides WSB. At night, they hit the NE suburbs well, when most others have to go directional away from the NE metro (see WCNN and WQXI on Radio Locator to see what I am talking about) if they can stay on with any kind of power to speak of at all.

WDUN has the third most night wattage of any ATL area station, behind class A clear WSB 750 at 50k and WCNN 680 at 10K directional to the SW.

You can pick up WDUN in downtown ATL during the day well, not so much at night.

WDUN is the flagship station for the Gwinnett Gladiators ECHL hockey team, and will be the flagship for the AAA Gwinnett Braves.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

WDUN is certainly listenable during the day in Atlanta but does not have the kind of signal intensity that would attract listening. At night, it's not really listenable.

I speak from living closer in. I think Jabba said he lives in Gwinnett County so he might receive a city-grade signal at least in the daytime.

Taylorengineer or Littlejohn can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe land height is a factor in AM. It's certainly a factor with FM and TV.

 

[jabba17]

I do live in Gwinnett. By "NE metro", I mean the quadrant east of Ga. 400 (maybe as far west as I-575) and north of I-20, and outside I-285. Along I-20 east towards Covington, WDUN comes in better than WGST which is unlistenable by that point. YMMV.

Downtown, WDUN is listenable during the day on a car radio or other decent set (not a $5 Radio Shack Flavoradio), but a scan may or may not stop on it, and you certainly have a lot of other clearer AM options that you don't have in the suburbs. WDUN won't "pop" the way a lot of other AMs would in town....but their processing isn't quite so "loud" as some other AMs, either. IMO it gives up a little DX listenability for better close-in listenability.

 

[Powell]

First of all WDUN is a Gainesville station and properly caters to that market, and that's a good thing. I am in rural Newberry county living near Silverstreet. I CAN HEAR WDUN during the day, but have to have the radio in a narrower bandwidth due to spit from WVOC. In other words, it's there, but requires a communications grade receiver.

Powell

 

[WhatDoIKnow]

I live in Brookhaven and until recently worked in Alpharetta. I had no problem listening to WDUN at the office and in the car in Alpharetta and down 400 to I-285. From I-285 to one mile south of the MARTA station car motor interference is a problem. However, during the day at the house with the car motor off or in the house listening on a good radio the signal is good. After sunset forget it. Although a Gainesville station, they recognize their proximity to Atlanta and report news and traffic accordingly.

 

[jabba17]

From I-285 to one mile south of the MARTA station car motor interference is a problem.

Do you drive a Volvo? Every Volvo I have ever had has had terrible RFI on AM.

 

[WhatDoIKnow]

Do you drive a Volvo? Every Volvo I have ever had has had terrible RFI on AM.

Both vehicles are Fords with resistor type plugs. Reception tends to pick up motor interference at the outer reaches of a stations signal.