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WKXN In Greenville Is Fixing to Make a Few Changes!

According to the FCC database, Mr. Roscoe Miller is also wanting to relocate to 95.7 and change the COL to Fort Deposit.  Just though I would add that in, since the original link didn't have that info provided.

R.D.P. <><
 
Would the coverage area be that much smaller? Even though the ERP is cut in half, the tower height goes up 50 feet. Of course, on the southwestern end of WKXN's coverage circle, there is plenty of overlap with co-owned and simulcast WKXK from Pine Hill, so anything within a few miles west of Greenville is duplicated anyway. I guess Mr. Miller's rotating Montgomery translators are getting ratings and sound-smashed from WAPZ's new FM voice, which would become non-existant after the frequency change. Of course, then WAPZ could get the 102.7 translator, or the 107.1 translator, or the Montgomery area translator flavor of the day and do as much damage to the Big Station as it must be doing now. Or they could secure their own full power FM station with the 93.1 Coosada application which seems to have stalled out.

Who knows? Might also change WAMI-FM's plans to upgrade - Greenville would be a city (of license) for the taking a bit more in line with its application.
 
According to FCC data, WKXN will have an antenna height of 438 feet up from 160 feet. Even though they are reducing power from 4.0 kw to 2.1 kw does not mean they will lose coverage. You will find, height is more important than power on FM. Increasing antenna height by 278 feet will make a significant difference. This station will be heard in Montgomery without a translator.
 
rambo2 said:
According to FCC data, WKXN will have an antenna height of 438 feet up from 160 feet. Even though they are reducing power from 4.0 kw to 2.1 kw does not mean they will lose coverage. You will find, height is more important than power on FM. Increasing antenna height by 278 feet will make a significant difference. This station will be heard in Montgomery without a translator.       
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How will that be, when the Gump already has WQKS at 96.1 FM? Inquiring minds want to know.

R.D.P <><

P.S. You may be right on that difference.  I can already get this station very well, in my car and truck.  I might can get it even better, once they make these changes.
 
Let me the be the first to correct my own error.

Since WKXN is moving to 95.7, they won't cause any troubles for WQKS 96.1 FM.

Hope the new WKXN will succeed and do well, once they make these changes.

I also hope that WAPZ FM will get them a new home, so that they can continue to broadcast their presentation to the Gump and Wetumpka area.

Sorry for making that mistake. Please accept my apologizes. I didn't mean to make it.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. Still love this web site. It rocks!
 
Full Power FMs take priority over translators so if the move interferes too much with the translator or vise versa, the translator will have to be turned off.
 
Even after this move, WKXN will not show much improvement over the Montgomery market. The 60DBU contour does NOT reach Montgomery, thus WKXN will have a very hard time with reception in Montgomery county and city. WKXN is NOT protected from translator interference beyond it's 60DBU contour, nor is it allowed to pay someone to rebroadcast WKXN on any translator beyond the licensed 60DBU contour, even though it has done so in the past. WKXN has relied on rebroadcasts from translators in the past, and that has given them listeners in Montgomery. This will be a disappointing move, only benefit might being one more channel away from 96.1 in Montgomery. "Roscoe Miller" does not own controlling interest in WKXN or WKXK. Controlling interest is with a Montgomery downtown shopkeeper/investor. The stations are currently listed openly for sale with several radio station brokers. You can see the listings on the internet, asking price is 1M. Apparently the controlling investor wants to sell and cash out. Clearly these are NOT Roscoe's stations as far as controlling ownership goes. Check it out.
 
busterluck said:
Even after this move, WKXN will not show much improvement over the Montgomery market. The 60DBU contour does NOT reach Montgomery, thus WKXN will have a very hard time with reception in Montgomery county and city. WKXN is NOT protected from translator interference beyond it's 60DBU contour, nor is it allowed to pay someone to rebroadcast WKXN on any translator beyond the licensed 60DBU contour, even though it has done so in the past. WKXN has relied on rebroadcasts from translators in the past, and that has given them listeners in Montgomery. This will be a disappointing move, only benefit might being one more channel away from 96.1 in Montgomery.
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The stations are currently listed openly for sale with several radio station brokers. You can see the listings on the internet, asking price is 1M. Apparently the controlling investor wants to sell and cash out. Clearly these are NOT Roscoe's stations as far as controlling ownership goes. Check it out.
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Would it be worth WAPZ 1250's time to make WKXN the new 'WAPZ-FM'? If its owners build the 95.7 CP out and broadcast in mono, they've effectively doubled their broadcast footprint on a full power signal.

Man would I have plans for WKXK 96.7 FM. I know pitifully little about engineering, yet I know that it could easily be broadcasting farther, cleaner, and crisper than it currently is--WHEN its operational at all.
 
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