I don't even know if you'd be able to hear The Summit in Cleveland if it didn't have any interference. I've noticed it breaking up a bit even when I get a little further east like Brimfield twp. and some parts of Medina county.
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WMJI's winning ways
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It always appears to me that the areas within the blue contour don't, really, count except for, maybe, some weak signal with noise in some radios within vehicles. The areas you can, usually, count on for a good quality signal is the areas within the red contour and acceptable sound for about 1/4, or so, of the areas within the purple range.
The rule is that RED is solid reception, PURPLE is hit and miss and BLUE is only if you have a good radio with a good antenna.
I've had good success with stations being located in the fringe (blue) contour, and this is with a receiver from the 80's and a piece of wire running up the wall acting as a FM antenna. Stations like WHOF, WAKR's FM repeater, and WBBG (before Real 106.1 signed on and wiped them out completely) come in fairly well, but weak enough to where the receiver automatically switches to mono. The static floor noise is minimal, even when these stations are strong enough to receive in stereo. WBBG, again before Real 106.1 wiped them out, could be received as far west as Broadview Heights in certain areas, several miles beyond their fringe contour.
Most car radios are good at receiving distant FM broadcasts. HD Radio works well while in motion, as the radio has enough time to fill the buffer back up if the signal is briefly weak, unless you're behind a hill, in a low spot, or too far from the transmitter.
As for AM, reception is typically only good as long as you're within the local (red) contour. Purple is going involve heavy interference and background noise, and blue is good luck, unless you're far enough from any sort of electrical interference or any other AM station on the same or adjacent frequency. In most cases, fringe AM broadcasts without any sources of interference will be faint and hard to hear, as they won't be able to overcome the floor noise.
And once I'm north of I-271 WAPS [sorry, Brad......913 The Summit] starts breaking up and becomes unlistenable fairly rapidly.
There's an app out there that is a better resource for FM signal coverage than Radio Locator, it's called Radioland. You can plug in your location and it'll give you a list of stations you can sort by frequency, signal strength and distance. It generates Longley-Rice maps for the stations and will tell you if the signal is reaching you via line of sight, 2-edge or tropo. For WAPS it shows a lot more holes in coverage than the RL map.
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Looks like it's lifting those LR coverage maps from Rabbitears.
It certainly is, they credit them. I find it's easier to get the maps from the app than from using the website. Plus with the app you can plot multiple signals on a single map.
WBWC can't be heard in Akron. It's at 88.3 FM in Cuyahoga County and has to protect 88.1 WZIP in Akron. There are 5 college radio stations with student talent in the Northeastern, Ohio area (including in Oberlin). Do any of them subscribe to the ratings service?
Non-commercial radio doesn't have to subscribe in order to show up in the ratings. They are exempt.
Saw this weekend that WMJI has been doing an all-80s weekend. WHLK was doing all-80s as well. How much longer can both stations continue to overlap? Majic is clearly the stronger of the two stations.
As long as they want. I looked at the song lists, and they're pretty different. WMJI's list is more pop. WHLK is more rock.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
A polite correction, if I may. The quote marks are erroneous, based on a misconception that many have had over the years. Records is John's legal middle name; it is his mother's maiden name.
Hence all those times on WLS when he said "Records truly is my middle name."
Looking at playlists, iHeart's two national Variety Hits stations, both Pop Drive and Rock Drive, are doing Totally 80s weekends.
WMJI appears to be using the national iHeart80s station logs for this weekend. WHLK, which uses the Pop Drive logs on and off during regular programming, doesn't seem to be using any of the main iHeart national sets of logs for their 80s weekend (iHeart80s, Lost 80s, Pop Drive and Rock Drive)
WMJI appears to be using the national iHeart80s station logs for this weekend. WHLK, which uses the Pop Drive logs on and off during regular programming, doesn't seem to be using any of the main iHeart national sets of logs for their 80s weekend (iHeart80s, Lost 80s, Pop Drive and Rock Drive)
And 20 years from now you might have a John "Streaming" Dandlecker on the air.....if there is even an air to be on.