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WIIN silent again?

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Pat3

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It's been off the air for the last several days. Radio-Locator list them as "off the air". they still had distiction of playing the Beatles with missing vocals and intruments from only one channel for nearly a year and a half with very little effort to fix the problem. Someone should have mailed them a $4 "Y" adapter. This station has always puzzled me as to why they continue to do the things they do. A powerful AM signal and an FM translator wasted
 
WIIIN is moving to a new tower site. They have taken 780 and the translator at 93.1 silent until they have completed the move.

RFB
 
Looking at google maps the other day I noticed that the WIIN tower in Ridgeland is lying on the ground. Radio Locator says it's being moved to Beasley Road which looks like the old WTYX studio where AM 1300's tower is located. Does this mean WIIN will be putting a tower next to WOAD 1300 or will they be diplexing on the 1300 tower. BTW, why are they moving it? I also noticed that WOAD is lowering their nightime power to 950 watts. Does this have something to do with WIIN?
 
The old tower in Gluckstadt is still up. It will be unstacked eventually. WIIN will probably triplex with WOAD and WSFZ - they won't put up a new tower - no room for it. WOAD had to move to one of the shorter towers on the property used by WSFZ because all the new antennas that New South hung on the center tower screwed up the impedence match. They couldn't keep the WOAD transmitter running at full power. WOAD actually had a power level of 3.8kw day and 880w night on the center tower - the tower height added some gain to the signal. Moving to the shorter tower (less signal gain) allowed them to step the transmitter power up to 5kw day and 950w night. Coverage should be the same.

RFB
 
I saw the old WIIN tower on Radio-Locator by clicking under the location which was a link to google maps and looked under sattelite images and it looked like a tower was on the ground. It may have been an optical illusion but it sure did look like it was in multiple pieces unless the link was wrong. WSFZ is another station that seems to have gone to pot after it was moved. It sounded pretty good when it was WSLI and had the towers near I-55. But it just doesn't seem to get out very well. Why would these stations want to all move to the WOAD site? Are they being kicked off their land? I know there is a Target sitting where WSLI used to be.
 
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