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WINK 1200 ON 50 KW CP?

On car radio, good signal into South Tampa also. There's a little hiss beneath the talking, but everything spoken is perfectly legible.
 
This monday morining when I got to work in Tallahassee i check my AM radio and turn to AM 1200 and WINK null in clearly around 7:30am. I got an e-mail from WINK-AM 1200 saying We will be 50kw when issued authorization from the FCC in a couple weeks. So they are still 10,000 watts at this point.
 
If they're still just 10kw, can't wait to see what the 50kw signal will be like. Of course, being coastal helps cover a lot of miles.
 
I wonder if they are not doing some testing at the new power. It will be interesting just how far it does get out at 50,000 watts. It appears that all the additional power is pointed north and the proposed coverage area to the south is pretty much the same. I had it on here in Naples today and it was about the same as it always is. Their coverage here in Naples is good along the coast but a bit fuzzy inland and pretty much gone at night after they reduce power. That is why they have a second station down here WNPL 1460.
 
It'll be a blowtorch to the north. And it is not at 50kw yet.
 
We may have our 2nd storngest AM station in the state of florida when WINK-AM goes to 50,000 watts in a few weeks (per) WINK-AM

Our 2 AM Radio stations would be the 50,000 watts daytime is
1. WWBA-AM 820 Tampa Bay
2. WINK-AM 1200 Naples/Southwest Florida
 
In this area, you are right. Statewide, there are several more.
 
540 WFLF is strongest in state I would think due to location and dial position
 
rfrus said:
You can hear 540 everywhere, but you cant hear it good anywhere.
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Well put.

As the strongest AM station in the Nation, it seems to be in competition with 1010 as the most inefficient signal I know.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
I would think that the former AM 690 WAPE, now News/talk 690 WOKV, has one of THE best and most usable 50,000 watt non-directional daytime signals in Florida, and a fantastic coastal signal northward through Georgia and most of South Carolina.
 
WWBA "IF" they are running 50KW might have some issues, the signal strength in Sarasota is no where near where it should be.

Looking at the local contours on radio-locator WINK wouldnt have a saleable signal in Tampa.
 
HadYourPhil said:
In this area, you are right. Statewide, there are several more.
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The 50 kw daytime stations in FL are:

WJNJ, WYMM, WQYK, WDYZ, WWNN, WYGM, WWFE, WWBA, WHIM, WINZ, WJKL, WFLF, WSUA, WQBA, WOKV and WAQI.

That is 16 out of 239 commercial 50 kw AMs in the US and its possessions. CA, by comparison, has 26 and NY has 14.
 
tanner said:
Most inefficient 50 KW signal 740 WYGM...
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Yes, with 6 towers, the signal is bouncing around those towers like tennis balls.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
tanner said:
Most inefficient 50 KW signal 740 WYGM...
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It isn't in Florida but the worst 50kw signal of all-time had to be WDEE in Detroit. 50kw on 1500 blowing off of 12...count 'em...TWELVE...towers south of the city along I-75. They had a little bit of coverage on land with most of it in a huge lobe that covered Lake Erie. This was back in the 70s.

When the station was sold, the new owners reduced the piower to 10kw, took down half of the towers and sold off enough land to...according to the rumors at the time...get the station for free. And they still covered as much land as they ever did.

The old WDEE wanted to have it's sales staff to be able to claim 50kilowatts of power. The business has been full of them, hasn't it?
 
SarasotaJim said:
tanner said:
Most inefficient 50 KW signal 740 WYGM...
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It isn't in Florida but the worst 50kw signal of all-time had to be WDEE in Detroit. 50kw on 1500 blowing off of 12...count 'em...TWELVE...towers south of the city along I-75. They had a little bit of coverage on land with most of it in a huge lobe that covered Lake Erie. This was back in the 70s.

When the station was sold, the new owners reduced the piower to 10kw, took down half of the towers and sold off enough land to...according to the rumors at the time...get the station for free. And they still covered as much land as they ever did.

The old WDEE wanted to have it's sales staff to be able to claim 50kilowatts of power. The business has been full of them, hasn't it?
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Yea, and I've met sales staff that were full of it, too.

Back to the topic, sort of, I'll bet that has happened more time than has been reported. You look at the value of property and even with the cost of the engineering surveys and studies, you would still be better off selling the land and moving the studio and transmitter.

I'm sure that was the case with a local station, here, in Sa-ra-so-ta!, on more than one occasion.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
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