• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

What do you think you could get if you were...

EN71DX said:
Re: 107.5 in Seymour, IN-

It was actually a very weak WRVW- Lebanon, TN and WABX- Evansville, IN mix. WRVW is helped out threefold by terrain, tall tower and open frequency and was doable several miles beyond the other Nashville stations. To put it into perspective, 101.1 WUBT Russellville, KY, a monster signal in it's own right, operates from a tower a good 20 miles north of Nashville and still doesn't make it to Elizabethtown (100 miles approximately)

WIOK- Falmouth, KY didn't make an appearance until between Louisville and Elizabethtown on Interstate 65, and even then it was very weak and very brief before the aforementioned WRVW took over the frequency.

WZRX, WGPR and WGCI weren't until well north of Indianapolis on I-69.
Click to expand...
There are religious groups fighting over 107.5 in Terre Haute, one of very few Class B allocations left. IMO, that would be a good spot for an NPR station as Terre Haute has no NPR service AFAIK. And that would pretty much own 107.5 in central and western Indiana as long as you were far enough away from Evansville, Indianapolis, or Chicago
 
Re: 94.9 Bangore that's exactly what I was thinking. Their legal used to be "Welcome to America's biggest fm radio station, covering 5 states, Canada, and now the world at 949whom.com. This is WHOM Mount Washington Portland." As for Pianoplayer's suggestion, out where my grandpa lives east of Raymond, during the day am reception is difficult if not impossible. I've received KOMO there once or twice, although it's slightly better on a car radio, but that's about it for am stations. At night however, there's a bunch of stuff, I picked up KBZZ down there last time, as well as CBU-AM, KOMO is a regular, along with several others including KFXX and KIRO.
 
How about 94.5 in New York City? I tried this the other day and was a little surprised. I'm actually a little surprised at how poorly the Philidelphia area sticks do up that way.
 
Nope, if WPST were in there with a somewhat listenable signal I probably would have picked it out. What I was hearing though was Spanish programming. I was also a little surprised I couldn't get New Jersey 101.5 from the GT receiver up there, or really any other Philidelphia sticks. I heard a weak signal of something on 96.5 which was likely WRDW, but couldn't make it out. Other than that, the Philidelphia frequencies I tried were either static or covered by other stations closer, such as WBLI on 106.1 and WALK on 97.5.
 
how about ....

On I-80 immediately west of Lordstown, OH, on 1490 kHz?
Or, at Camp Barnabas - between Monett and Rocky Comfort, OH, on 1340 kHz?

I'm especially interested in what you would hear at midday on a sensitive radio with a large antenna (like a full-wave longwire or a large outdoor (because it won't fit in a house) loop. :) (If a 3.16 µV/m signal is below the radio & antenna's copyability threshold, it's not sensitive enough.)
 
Bob, I searched via google on this site for a couple keywords that I remembered were in this thread from the past, and it came right up.

Also, on my 1340 kHz example, there's a typo - I meant Missouri, not Ohio. :) (1490 is correct, though.)

Another thing - I can't seem to log on via my phone's browser. It shows me as logged on when I first go to one of the boards, like this one, but as soon as I click on the topic, I get the "welcome back, register or log on" yellow box that greets people who aren't logged in. I can read, just not post from there. (I'm typing from my dad's laptop right now but don't always have access to it.)
When I try to log on via the phone (using what I thought was set up), it comes back with invalid username or password. Should I maybe change my password (it's probably been a few years since I did so) on the desktop, then log in from the phone with a known good password? I used to be logged on with my phone before the site went down for a while this past winter.
 
bobdavcav said:
How about 94.5 in New York City? I tried this the other day and was a little surprised. I'm actually a little surprised at how poorly the Philidelphia area sticks do up that way.
Click to expand...

WPST is from Trenton and although it's still technically 'South' Jersey, it's almost half way between Philly and NYC but still more associated with Philly than New York.

I'm surprised you couldn't get them in New York. Same with NJ 1015.

Interestingly, both stations have the same coverage area even though WKXW has a lot less power than WPST.


http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WPST&service=FM&status=L&hours=U


http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WKXW&service=FM&status=L&hours=U


But New Jersey 101.5's tower is about twice as high.


And speaking of Philadelphia stations heard in New York, when I was growing up and we would visit friends in Massapequa out on Long Island, I remember hearing 'WIFI 92' (92.5) from Philadelphia when I would listen in the morning to my old portable mono AM/FM radio I had at the time.

Probably tropo enhancement because I didn't check later in the day the times I was there.
 
Ok here's one involving 3 frequencies in 2 markets and 6 stations. We're talking about 96.1, 97.7, and 99.3 fm in both Olympia and Vancouver BC. Assuming locals are off, do you think you could get the South Mountain sticks in Vancouver? How about if South Mountain and KXXO were off, do you think Vancouver would reach all the way down to Olympia? I can tell you that here in Edmonds, KXXO must be on greatly reduced power as I'm having to null CHKG which is booming in.
 
bobdavcav said:
Ok here's one involving 3 frequencies in 2 markets and 6 stations. We're talking about 96.1, 97.7, and 99.3 fm in both Olympia and Vancouver BC. Assuming locals are off, do you think you could get the South Mountain sticks in Vancouver? How about if South Mountain and KXXO were off, do you think Vancouver would reach all the way down to Olympia? I can tell you that here in Edmonds, KXXO must be on greatly reduced power as I'm having to null CHKG which is booming in.
Click to expand...

Since they run pretty high power, I would guess yes and yes.

New: 99.5 MHz in Orlando, FL
 
Reviving a long dead thread for one that I've been wondering about for a while,
104.5 in Arlington, WA before KMCQ signed on up here.
 
Although what is now KLSW has been on the air since 1967, The Dales, which is where they were licensed prior to 2008, is a couple hundred miles from the current site.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom