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pghfmradiosucks

When it was announced that there was a new radio station in Pittsburgh to compete with the overrated, tired, played and repetitive WDVE, needless to say I was happy. While I applaud the effort and playlist, there remains one major problem. I cannot receive the station clearly. I have tried to listen to it while downtown and north of the city and in all cases the stations reception is horrible to say the least. It sounds as if I am listening to an out of town station that fades in and out. In many cases all I get is static, hearing no music at all. Will this ever change? I listen to satellite and CD's mainly anyway so I really don't care if this situation ever improves, but I don't know how a station can compete with DVE if it can't be received clearly in the same market as DVE. Are there plans to upgrade the signal?
 
pghfmradiosucks said:
When it was announced that there was a new radio station in Pittsburgh to compete with the overrated, tired, played and repetitive WDVE, needless to say I was happy. While I applaud the effort and playlist, there remains one major problem. I cannot receive the station clearly. I have tried to listen to it while downtown and north of the city and in all cases the stations reception is horrible to say the least. It sounds as if I am listening to an out of town station that fades in and out. In many cases all I get is static, hearing no music at all. Will this ever change?
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No. The station broadcasts from the same tower as Froggy 94.9 on the mountain above Uniontown.

To be fair, the station never said it intended to compete with DVE, in fact they've been petty clear about that NOT being the case. They are serving Westmoreland and Fayette counties, and that's pretty much all that signal can reasonably be expected to do.
 
Parttimer said:
The station broadcasts from the same tower as Froggy 94.9 on the mountain above Uniontown.
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Not quite on the same tower -- we have our own -- but it's very close to 94.9.

As for a signal upgrade -- this was the upgrade. 103.1 went from serving around 75,000 people to serving
750,000 people. Unfortunately, due to the FCC spacing rules, it cannot be moved any closer to Pittsburgh
without considerable complications involving several other radio stations.

C.
 
pghfmradiosucks said:
Downtown, through the North Side and into Ross and McCandless Township.
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The signal is best south and east of the city. It's hard downtown because of all the intermod caused by very strong signals.
 
I've been in Pittsburgh for a few days for a funeral. I got the chance to listen to WKVE, and I like it very much except for one tiny little thing. They play such great "deep cut" songs that I find myself hearing wonderful music I had almost forgotten. In fact, I did forget the names of some of the artists and which albums the songs came from. I like the lack of annoying DJ blather, but I think I would prefer it if they did something like the FM stations back in the early 60's did, with someone mentioning the artist and song names after every three-song set.
 
The fact that the signal is so weak north and west of the city is a shame. That is a big segment of the Pittsburgh population that get shut out of a potentially interesting format. Oh well, back to satellite and CD's for me.
 
pghfmradiosucks said:
When it was announced that there was a new radio station in Pittsburgh to compete with the overrated, tired, played and repetitive WDVE, needless to say I was happy. While I applaud the effort and playlist, there remains one major problem. I cannot receive the station clearly. I have tried to listen to it while downtown and north of the city and in all cases the stations reception is horrible to say the least. It sounds as if I am listening to an out of town station that fades in and out. In many cases all I get is static, hearing no music at all. Will this ever change? I listen to satellite and CD's mainly anyway so I really don't care if this situation ever improves, but I don't know how a station can compete with DVE if it can't be received clearly in the same market as DVE. Are there plans to upgrade the signal?
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Not unless they move - mt. pleasant is not exactly downtown....i live SE of city and pick it up clearly until I head towards Pitt
 
I love this station - it is the only one i can listen to that is non-satellite. Good music - not too many commercials etc. I live south of the city and can pick it up fine ;D
 
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