Who has the biggest FM signal in GA?

[jabba17]

Although the signal is South Carolina, Augusta licsened powerhouse 104.3 WBBQ covers a huge area. Can be heard as far as Conyers, GA, (this side of Augusta) and as far as Florence, SC on the other side. Amazing coverage! To bad it's not the awesome TOP 40 station it used to be and even as an AC, they are waaaaayyyyy lighter than most typical AC's.

I was able to pick up WBBQ (when I was in high school in the early 80s) in Dunwoody with a standard-issue T-wire antenna. This was before the move-in of 104.1. Not sure if you could do that now. Although I have been able to pick up 95.9 WQZY out of Dublin, right up against 96 Rock, in the Walton County/Covington/Oxford area.

Yes, WBBQ was an awesome top 40 back then, too.

 

[OnTheAir123]

>WSRV plans to downgrade a signal class when they move closer to metro Atlanta. After that I'd consider >WYAY to have the best signal in GA, since the other Class Cs on opposite ends of the state lose half their >signal to the neighbor state.

You must also keep in mind that what shows on a coverage map may NOT be a listenable signal! When going north on Interstate 75, 100,000 KW WSKZ on 106.5 starts bleeding over on 106.7 north of Cartersville and it just gets worse as you go north because you are into the "city grade" of WSKZ by the time you get to the city of Calhoun or Gordon County. The terrain in North Georgia can also make it worse depending on what hill may be between your receiving antenna and the transmitter site of WYAY.

You used to be able to listen to WSKZ Chattanooga all the way to Kennesaw before WYAY moved their transmitter site closer to Atlanta many years ago. WSKZ's signal goes farther than the map link below indicates.

WYAY: Height above Sea Level 772 meters (2534 feet)
Effective Radiated Power 77,000 Watts

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


WSKZ: Height above Sea Level 721 meters (2367 feet)
Effective Radiated Power 100,000 Watts

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

All I am saying is that WSKZ takes a chunk out of WYAY's signal in North Georgia. Now we won't even go into how some receivers are more selective than others and will not be effected as much by WSKZ's 1st adjacent 100 KW signal.

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[JR1967]

When I was living on the North Carolina Coast above Wilmington in the late 80's and driving back home WBBQ came blasting in on my car stereo loud and clear, and that was even though there was another station on that same frequency up to the north. Sometimes when the weather conditions were right in the summer, many of the Charleston S.C. FM's would come in loud and clear there. Even though this post is about FM's, I recall also picking up WSB 750 in the middle of the day all the way above Wilmington.