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If WGPA was a community radio station, they would send a crew to Hershey to cover the Liberty High game tonight. WEST who rarely covers Wilson High Athletics is carrying the game. Way to drop the ball Jolly Joe, thats why you will always be inferior. I guess he couldn't get his air talent to sell $10 spots during the game.
 
> If WGPA was a community radio station, they would send a
> crew to Hershey to cover the Liberty High game tonight.
> WEST who rarely covers Wilson High Athletics is carrying the
> game. Way to drop the ball Jolly Joe, thats why you will
> always be inferior. I guess he couldn't get his air talent
> to sell $10 spots during the game.
>
WGPA is a daytimer.
 
The general public doesnt know it's a daytimer. They should be ashamed.
 
I have no affiliations to WGPA, but should they seriously be blamed for this? They do a decent job covering Moravian games and other local sporting events. WGPA can't help that they have to go off the air at sunset. I've heard that Jolly Joe has tried for 24-hours in the past but that the FCC wants to protect that Cleveland station on 1100 AM (call letters escape me).

I've always thought that daytimers should at the very least be allowed to stay on until 9 p.m. year round. It makes it very difficult to market a station whose on and off times change every month.
 
The Cleveland station is 1100 WTAM. Some daytimers have a limited post-sunset authority; others have nighttime authorizations of much less than 250 watts.
WVCH, one of the stations I work at, has to reduce its power at sunset from 1000 to 6 watts to avoid interfering with CHWO 740 in Toronto..

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia
 
is this the same WILSON AREA which is in west lawn ( reading)

if so i would think WEEU, WRAW AM or whatever the calls are for 1240 ( was WHUM in my day) would do it........





> If WGPA was a community radio station, they would send a
> crew to Hershey to cover the Liberty High game tonight.
> WEST who rarely covers Wilson High Athletics is carrying the
> game. Way to drop the ball Jolly Joe, thats why you will
> always be inferior. I guess he couldn't get his air talent
> to sell $10 spots during the game.
>
 
> The Cleveland station is 1100 WTAM. Some daytimers have a
> limited post-sunset authority; others have nighttime
> authorizations of much less than 250 watts.
> WVCH, one of the stations I work at, has to reduce its power
> at sunset from 1000 to 6 watts to avoid interfering with
> CHWO 740 in Toronto..
>
> Dave Gardiner
>
> WVCH 740/WNWR 1540
>
> Philadelphia
>
6 watts doesn't carry very far on 740 kHz. Can you imagine what the coverage map would be for WGPA with that power on 1100 kHz?
 
Hi Bill,

6 watts gives a readable signal from WVCH's transmitter site in Brookhaven out to Media. WFIL/WNTP's chief engineer Rene Tetro told me he's sometimes heard the station at his home in Lansdale. We're also heard in parts of Philly at night too.

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia
 
Well, the funny thing is, even though it's a daytimer, WGPA still does have to go to low power for the last 30 or so minutes of their broadcast day, which I always found to be a little silly, especially since they already have to go off-the-air totally at night.

I'm not sure what WGPA's "low-power" wattage is, but it must be very very low. Maybe something like 10 watts, because when they're on low power, they barely cover the city of Bethlehem and only bits and pieces of the rest of the Lehigh Valley.
 
Many of the daytimers on clear channel frequencies had a 'critical hours' lower power to protect the full time stations on the frequency from interference. Especially this time of year, if you tune the AM dial from about 3pm to after dark, you still get all kinds of small stations cutting in over the larger ones. Driving home today at 3:30 I was picking up on 890 what I believe was WHNC, a 1,000 watt daytimer southern gospel station from Henderson, NC.



> Well, the funny thing is, even though it's a daytimer, WGPA
> still does have to go to low power for the last 30 or so
> minutes of their broadcast day, which I always found to be a
> little silly, especially since they already have to go
> off-the-air totally at night.
>
> I'm not sure what WGPA's "low-power" wattage is, but it must
> be very very low. Maybe something like 10 watts, because
> when they're on low power, they barely cover the city of
> Bethlehem and only bits and pieces of the rest of the Lehigh
> Valley.
>
 
> is this the same WILSON AREA which is in west lawn (
> reading)
>
> if so i would think WEEU, WRAW AM or whatever the calls are
> for 1240 ( was WHUM in my day) would do it........

There are two Wilson Area School Districts:

One is in Northampton County neighboring Easton.

The other is, as you mentioned, in West Lawn.

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thanks.....


> > is this the same WILSON AREA which is in west lawn (
> > reading)
> >
> > if so i would think WEEU, WRAW AM or whatever the calls
> are
> > for 1240 ( was WHUM in my day) would do it........
>
> There are two Wilson Area School Districts:
>
> One is in Northampton County neighboring Easton.
>
> The other is, as you mentioned, in West Lawn.
>
> WEST, an Easton station, covers Wilson Area-Easton (as it's
> called to differentiate the two on WFMZ) athletics.
>
 
> Well, the funny thing is, even though it's a daytimer, WGPA
> still does have to go to low power for the last 30 or so
> minutes of their broadcast day, which I always found to be a
> little silly, especially since they already have to go
> off-the-air totally at night.
>
> I'm not sure what WGPA's "low-power" wattage is, but it must
> be very very low. Maybe something like 10 watts, because
> when they're on low power, they barely cover the city of
> Bethlehem and only bits and pieces of the rest of the Lehigh
> Valley.


I believe it's around 13 watts for WGPA's PSRA and PSSA. It's true that Joe has tried to get 24 hours, but he can't change physics. Neither can the FCC.
 
I'm curious...did "Jolly Joe Timmer" ever pursue moving to the expanded (X) band (above 1600)? As far as I know there is no one nearby up there. They would have 10 kw days and 1 kw nights. The whole opening of this band was "supposed" to get all the daytimers off the regular frequencies to "clean up" the AM Band.

Perhaps this was pursued but may have been too expensive?
 
> I'm curious...did "Jolly Joe Timmer" ever pursue moving to
> the expanded (X) band (above 1600)? As far as I know there
> is no one nearby up there. They would have 10 kw days and 1
> kw nights. The whole opening of this band was "supposed" to
> get all the daytimers off the regular frequencies to "clean
> up" the AM Band.
>
> Perhaps this was pursued but may have been too expensive?
>
I heard (but have no confirmation) that expanded band was pursued, but there were no allotments available for Lehigh Valley, PA.
There seem to be several expanded AM band allotments for New Jersey. I don't know if that has an effect or not.
 
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