I know every cent or kilo watt hour counts at CC these days but for the last several days I cant listen to the station during daytime hours. A few years back I know they ran reduced daytime power on Sundays only. I asked this question at the Capital Gold site back then and and lo and behold the situation corrected itself. I guess they thought nobody noticed ??? ???
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WGY at reduced power??
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More cost cutting.....Just wait until details emerge of the next planned wave of cut backs....
WROW does well in n. saratoga county because even though they are 5KW, their directional pattern favors that direction. WGY that is supposed to be 50KW non-directional does seem to have an anemic signal. Don't know if the digital is part of it. I know that if you try to listen to AM in a vehicles these days, the computer desensitizes the reception something awful.
I guess that IBOC was a failed attempt for an AM quality at night. I don't get it.
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RepeaterRadio said:
More than that is to come....In the next month word should be emerging of station sales in New York State and Georgia among other places....
It's VERY unlikely a large station like WGY would intentionally reduce power for economic reasons. (FM) Stations in far smaller markets are nearly always able to maintain full power while making cuts elsewhere.
I would be quite confident there's another reason for WGY's weak signal. Most likely, tower maintenance. Possibly, failure of some major component that's taking time to find a replacement. I wouldn't rule out entirely the possibility repairs of a major failure are being delayed for economic reasons.
But I would be VERY VERY surprised if WGY backed off the power on a properly operating transmission system simply to save $$.
I would be quite confident there's another reason for WGY's weak signal. Most likely, tower maintenance. Possibly, failure of some major component that's taking time to find a replacement. I wouldn't rule out entirely the possibility repairs of a major failure are being delayed for economic reasons.
But I would be VERY VERY surprised if WGY backed off the power on a properly operating transmission system simply to save $$.
rtetro said:
Absolutely, though violations are not unheard-of at smaller stations...
One couldn't rule out the possibility WGY did get a STA -- sometimes they don't get reported on the Commission's website. Indeed, WGY probably *did* have FCC permission for a brief power reduction for whatever reason they were temporarily on reduced power. (again, I would speculate tower work/painting.) I would imagine an informal letter notification was involved.
But the middle letter of "STA" stands for "Temporary" - a station operating on reduced power under STA has to have a viable plan for returning to full power.
I've often wondered what kind of shape there grounding radials are in. Since they are licensed for 50Kw i'm sure if they reduced power they'd have to notify the FCC and it would be public record.
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