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WINK Veteran Launches New Marco Island Station

Actually, the station is licensed to Eveglades City as WBGY 88.1 and has it's studio on Marco Island and transmitter at Everglades City. Then, they placed a translator on Marco island that picks up 88.1 WBGY and repeats it at 98.1 on Marco Island. The whole thing is promoted as 98.1 Marco except during the ID's. The whole thing is very clever and very legal.
 
How well does 100 watts on a 50 foot stick do? If you can get a few miles out of it that would be pretty good
 
If 100 watts at 50 feet didn't do well then nobody would complaign about distant translators blocking their favorite stations. Ya, I hear a 100 watter on a short stick well over 25 miles away regularly here.
 
My local LPFM runs 100 watts at 50 feet and gets about 7-8 miles out of it - after that it is gone. I would imagine that coverage would suffice for what he is doing. Twenty five miles is definitely a push though.
 
Agreed, OK - I know Tampa is a bit further down, but 98.1 is not too far away from 97.9 FM. Still, the power would be ideal for serving the immediate Marco Island area and not stepping on any adjacent stations' toes.
 
He probably means further down from me - the LPFM is was refering to is in the Orlando area
 
I will say the translator sometimes picks up hiss when the main station at Everglades City fades but all in all the translator hangs in there remarkebly well for picking up a station 14 miles away. Maybe the reason it works so well is because most of the pickup is across water.
 
That is a good reason for some additional carry of the signal. Ten watts would work if you are in the line of sight of the tower.
 
Sorry to bump this, but I live in west Broward and have been trying to pick up this Island 98.1.....often I hear the Spanish one in Deltona, even when pointing the antenna west.

This morning, Saturday June 16 @ 6:40am or so, I was hearing a list given out of PARTIAL baseball scores (!!!!) on 98.1. Could it have been Island 98.1??? Only those in Naples/Marco/Everglades City would know!

(I'm still recording, hoping for some more clues, but what I heard might be all I will get.)

98.1 can be a great freq. here, when the pirates are not acting up.

cd
 
I'm just trying to figure out how they gave a "partial baseball score"... Did they just announce the winning team and their score?
 
DToTheJ said:
I'm just trying to figure out how they gave a "partial baseball score"... Did they just announce the winning team and their score?
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Ha ha. Although I never cared for his personal beliefs, George Carlin used to do that bit...."Here's a partial score, Pittsburgh 37, hmmmm!"

But seriously....it sounded as if they were saying, "In the top of the 8th [inning], (something like) it's Arizona over Colorado 5-3." At 6:40am?????

cd
 
DToTheJ said:
I'm just trying to figure out how they gave a "partial baseball score"... Did they just announce the winning team and their score?
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Havent you ever heard the KOS radio parody (pronounced chaos) that included the line: "and now the scores: 3 to 3, 5 to 2, and 8 to 1" or something like that. It was hilarious.
 
If the originating station is in the non-commercial band, at 88.1, how can the station broadcast commercials? Or is it listener-supported? I don't understand.
 
Gregg said:
If the originating station is in the non-commercial band, at 88.1, how can the station broadcast commercials? Or is it listener-supported? I don't understand.
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I cannot hear the station, as it's 80 miles away at 110 watts....but it is likely a case of "underwritings", if anything. It has to be non-comm, both 88.1 & 98.1.

Is there anyone who *can* hear these, and tell me if indeed, um, "partial scores" are recited at 6:40 am? of course, even then, that wouldn't necessarily nail it.....

cd
 
Back in the late 70's there was a guy on WBZ in Boston named Larry Glick who used to do partial scores. He would give all of the scores and then he would say "we also have some partial scores - 7, 14, and 29." I was a teenager and thought it was hilarious, so when I became a sports radio guy I always gave "partial scores".

Funny thing is that I was in Annapolis, Maryland and heard him loud and clear at night.
 
I wasn't listening but I would guess they were running the IRN/USA network sportscast. That network has a habit of posting scores late.

98.1 at Marco is a translator that translates a noncommercial station on 88.1from Everglades City as such there are no Commercials on 98.1 or 88.1 just underwriter announcements. They don't give calls to action, prices or comparisons just like all noncoms.

BTW the noncom band ( AKA reserve band ) is 87.9 ( Class D noncoms bumped because the band is full where they are and they can't resettle elseware are allowed on 87.9 with a max of 10 watts erp in other words an old class D ) through 91.9 not 98.1
 
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