WMJE Majic 102.9

[jabba17]

What was up today with Majic 102.9? They seemed to be off the air. Instead, I was picking up what was identified as a GPB feed (Garrison Keillor), and later with an EAS warning about flooding in the Sylvester/Worth County area (south central GA, towards Albany). GPB has no stations on that part of the dial...

What's up with that?

This was about 4-5 PM today in the Gwinnett area.

 

[taylorengineer]

Probably FM skip. Conditions were prime yesterday-

 

[jal41]

http://www.gpb.org/files/pdfs/radio_stationmap2A.pdf

GPB's only commerical band stations are WGPB 97.7 Rome and WNGH 98.9 Chatsworth (just acquired from North Georgia Radio Group, which was a part of Clear Channel from 2000-2005). (There is a Lake Hartwell translator at 107.9, Social Circle at 94.5, and downtown Athens at 97.9).

The three GPB stations in that area are WNGU 89.5 Dahlonega, WPPR 88.3 Demorest, and WUGA 91.7 Athens. If any of these share a transmitter site with WMJE...I am no enginneer...but an issue may have created a crossover.

 

[littlejohn]

If the station monitors GPB fpr its EAS source, and runs in automatic, it would be normal to hearan alert.

 

[jabba17]

If the station monitors GPB fpr its EAS source, and runs in automatic, it would be normal to hearan alert.

But would a Clarkesville station (N of Gainesville, extreme NE GA) intentionally transmit an EAS alert for Worth County/Sylvester (southwest GA, near Albany)? These two areas are almost completely catty-corner across the state from one another.

Anyway, it must have been skip or something. Said station identified itself this AM (on RDDS, not TOH) as WJSP 88.1, out of Warm Springs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJSP-FM ). The station has several translators but none near 102.9 on the dial.