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WINK AM 1200

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Louis_009

I know WINK-AM 1200 in southwest florida in the Fort Myers area but im in north florida big bend area and I was scanning the AM dial on a nice sunday to see whats on there I hread AM 1200 as I stop and listren. The singal is not like WWBA-AM 820 clear singal but a somewhat singal coming in. So I was listren to it to catch the call letters and its said WINK-AM Southwest Florida News Talk Radio WINK/WNPL

So I do alitttle reserch and I came up on WINK-AM
(construction permit to upgrade day power to 50,000 watts)

Are they now a 50,000 watts daytime or still 10,000 watts daytime?
 
Louis_009 said:
I know WINK-AM 1200 in southwest florida in the Fort Myers area but im in north florida big bend area and I was scanning the AM dial on a nice sunday to see whats on there I hread AM 1200 as I stop and listren. The singal is not like WWBA-AM 820 clear singal but a somewhat singal coming in. So I was listren to it to catch the call letters and its said WINK-AM Southwest Florida News Talk Radio WINK/WNPL

So I do alitttle reserch and I came up on WINK-AM
(construction permit to upgrade day power to 50,000 watts)

Are they now a 50,000 watts daytime or still 10,000 watts daytime?
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As far as I know they are still at 10,000 watts but if someone knows different please chime in. I suspect you just had a lucky catch. Were you near the coast? If so that would explain a lot. AM signals travel over water better than land.
 
Now you know what to listen for, check it again tomorrow and the day after to rule out any atmospheric anomolies. Assuming the sun was high in the sky you were picking it up via groundwave, or probably more accurately "salt water wave". Lots of signals travel up and down our Gulf coast as SWFL pointed out. I hear little WZCC AM 1240 1kw from Cross City all the time in New Port Richey and a slightly more serious DXer hears WLQH AM 940 780 watts from Chiefland daily in Largo with his loop antenna. He has also logged WZCC when WHNZ 1250 has their IBOC off.
 
WPSO 1500 New Port Richy with its 250 watts can be heard regularly up the Gulf coast as far North as Cedar Key.
 
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.
 
Louis_009 said:
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.
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Thanks for the update. I was wondering just when they would go up to 50,000 watts. That CP has been around for ever. If Radio Info is to believed it appears that most of the new power will be aimed primarily northward so that may make your reception even better up your way. It appear that they are trying to send a better signal toward Sarasota/Arcadia area. Please keep us updated on how it sounds after the power increase.
 
swfl said:
Louis_009 said:
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.
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Thanks for the update. I was wondering just when they would go up to 50,000 watts. That CP has been around for ever. If Radio Info is to believed it appears that most of the new power will be aimed primarily northward so that may make your reception even better up your way. It appear that they are trying to send a better signal toward Sarasota/Arcadia area. Please keep us updated on how it sounds after the power increase.
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Interesting if true.

There has always been a radio reception barrier here in Sa-ra-so-ta! with regard to the Ft. Myers stations. Some FM's have been able to breach it, but for the most part, the AM's have not.

Dating back to the 80's, I have watched the blacked out Bucs games on TV from Ft. Myers. Years ago, when they were on WINK and later on WFTX.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
Earlier today I was hearing WINK-AM 1200 off and on as they testing there singal once again toward the florida big bend area. I am guessing they are working on it before they flip to 50,000 watts daytime singal. The WINK-AM singal seem pertty well. I was checking the WINK-AM 1200 thier show seem to be not much just WINK-TV newscast and very little TRN Talk Radio Network promg.
 
I stumbled across this by accident, as there is a thread on WINK on the Tampa board. WINK is at 50kw days with the major lobe NNE. The night signal is 2.2kw and points SE, mostly to protect WOAI. And yes, there will be a few on and off times as things aren't quite the way we would like them. We turned the 50kw on a little over a week ago.

Big Nautel XR50 transmitter. The backup is the 10kw Nautel Ampfet they signed on with in 1985.
 
Reception report: I'm in Foley, Alabama, about 14 miles north of the gulf, and I'm listening to WINK. I heard Americas News Network, a Cintas commercial followed by local news. Lots of noise from 1190 WMEJ out of Bay St Louis, Mississippi, though.
 
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