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WFLF 540 On FM At 104.5

At least I can still pick up WFYV (104.5) in Jacksonville in Deltona, just over the bridge..... ;D
 
POZ's sound is okay, but I prefer a more open/dynamic sound. It sounds to me as if they are useing the HD feed to power 99.7 here in The Villages. Usually you can't tell, but its a very interesting sound when you have something panned to one channel.
Until the Whole World Hears by Casting crowns is the example I can come up with.
when the drumbs come in, you can hear the guitar from the left channel hitting with the drumbs on the right channel. Its a very odd sound on Shure headphones.
I dunno if its decreesed seperation in the stereo image or what... Any station that broadcast in HD you hear little things like that. Its only when you have wide panning (most things aren't panned that wide)
Most dont care and most dont notice...
Long live Anolog FM and AM Stereo.

there are no examples of this in Orlando.
 
The 99.7 translator is actually fed directly off air via 88.7-WMYZ. 88.7-WMYZ is fed via it's own audio chain/STL from the Altamonte Springs studios. Not sure what you might be hearing in the 99.7 audio but we will look into it.

Deano
 
For the record I hear the same thing on the 88.7 freq as well. Sometimes I can DX that from here...
Audio is a very subjective thing and compression more so. It's always semed to me that the loudness of the mics are lower then the music. Not sure if tha'ts cause the mics are compressed different with a lower over-all volume or what, but its just an odd thing. The traffic and weather music for instance sound fine to me (doesn't over power speech.) Music and jingles etc sound fine together, the loudness isn't different from one to the other. It just seems to me that when you jump from music/jingles to breaks with bumper music, the volumes are different. Any underwriting is lower then the music to me, to . Its almost as if the music and jingles are processed one way and the mics with bumper and underwriting is processed differently. maybe the limitor is set different for each.
Okay really, i need a life. I hope i haven't come off as totaly critical. I like the station honestly. I'm just one of those sound dudes, its what I pay attention too.
Thanks deno for the explanation of the WMYZ feeding 99.7. That makes sense (tha'ts how i thought it went since 99.7 is a translator.

a
 
Is this still going to happen? 104.5 is still reach fm.
 
I was getting the WFLA 540 AM programing on a non-HD regular FM radio and was confused as to what I was picking up....i emailed a gal at WFLA and she told me about the 104.5 FM translator.....I am not that far from the Pine Hills area antenna here in Altamonte Springs, and my little iPAL radio with its built in telescopic antenna picks up the 250 watt signal very well. iPALs have a very good tuner....
 
Up until today, I've never gotten anything on 104.5 down here south of Disney. Today, the WFLF programming was fairly steady on 104.5, and the station's started identifying itself as 104-5 WFLA.
 
FrankF said:
I would hope cheap channel isn't stupid enough to abandon acknowledging 540 like cox abandoning 580 WDBO.
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It seems that they are stupid enough. Just heard a legal ID. They did WFLF Pine Hills, and their still on WTKS's HD2 (never any call numbers mentioned there), but no mention of 540, only said 104.5 WFLA.
 
Once they get on an FM station. They will hardly mention the parent AM station. Even if the FM is extremely low power. I've also noticed when a station goes to an AM/FM simulcast, the AM station goes to pot. Starts breaking down for days at a time. Low or bad audio. Even when the AM station has more coverage. I know of several stations that have 5 or 10KW on AM and the FM is only 99watts yet the AM station is barely mentioned unless it's a legal ID. Kinda sad if you ask me.
 
I forget the number of days but there is a time limit on how long the translator stays on after the "parent" is off the air. If there was a catastrophic loss of the AM site (fire, flood, tornado, earthquake or sinkhole "swallowing tower site" etc) would the FCC give a STA to run the FM translator by it's self?
 
secondchoice said:
I forget the number of days but there is a time limit on how long the translator stays on after the "parent" is off the air. If there was a catastrophic loss of the AM site (fire, flood, tornado, earthquake or sinkhole "swallowing tower site" etc) would the FCC give a STA to run the FM translator by it's self?
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Possibly, but in this case it wouldn't matter; as long as WTKS-HD2 is on the air, the translator can use that as its "primary" signal in lieu of the AM.
 
secondchoice said:
I forget the number of days but there is a time limit on how long the translator stays on after the "parent" is off the air.
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From http://louise.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/2011/74/1263/:

(b) An FM booster or FM translator station rebroadcasting the signal of
an AM or FM primary station shall not be permitted to radiate during
extended periods when signals of the primary station are not being
retransmitted. Notwithstanding the foregoing, FM translators
rebroadcasting Class D AM stations may continue to operate during
nighttime hours only if the AM station has operated within the last 24
hours.
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How is "extended periods" defined? Good question. Although I'd think if it was defined as more than 24 hours, the second clause would be unnecessary.
 
interesting on IHeartRadio they show up as 104.5WFLA ... I'm out of town at the moment, tried to catch the Gator Game but instead go Cigar Talk ... do the run "normal format" in the background vs. FL Football?
 
Moving 104.5 to 104.1 makes sense. It would crush 96.5 with ease. Plus one or two Real Radio shows could possibly be salvaged & dropped into afternoon drive & nights.

G
 
While a news/talk station migrating to FM and neglecting its AM "roots" is nothing news, WFLF's sister in Tampa still primarily ID's itself as "970 WFLA" - in fact, in their new logo, the font for 970 is about three times bigger than "105.9 FM".
 
@Japman: University of Florida may prohibit affiliates from streaming their games, much like the same deals NFL and MLB have (though there are some exceptions: the aforementioned WFLA streams NHL Lightning games).
 
Anyone going to 540wfla.com is now redirected to 1045wfla.com. A Sentinel piece quoting Hedinger even emphasized the 104.5 FM frequency. The cold shoulder of AM 540 has begun...
 
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