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WNAK listed as rebroadcasting on 104.5

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NXEA

According to the FCC WNAK(AM) is the now the primary station for FM translator W283BJ (104.5 Exeter). This was the Wilkes-Barre area translator for WGMF(AM). A construction permit shows the new signal for 104.5 will be 99 watts and have a killer Wilkes-Barre signal. What is interesting is this:

If you look at 104.9 WWRR's predicted 60dbu signal (the area where it can use a fill-in translator for any spotty coverage), the new 104.5 60dbu signal goes miles further south that WWRRs, so, WWRR cannot use the 104.5 to get a better signal into Wilkes-Barre as you cannot use a translator to extend your signal, BUT (and this is a huge BUT), if 104.5 is the translator for WNAK, iI think all WNAK has to do is simulcast WWRR, and voila, the River then appears on 104.5 legally and gets a much much stronger and better extended signal in Wilkes-Barre and Nanticoke and areas south.

Could we see 104.5/104.9/730 The River?

Or, WNAK could simulcast 94.3 (which it did in the past), and you get 94.3/104.5/730 The Talker. This then fills in a HUGE area where 94.3 has a weak signal, and is currently bumping up against 94.5 LPFM in Nanticoke.

Or: if WTRW ends up doing well on 94.3 only, might it end up as 104.5/104.9/730 The Talker, and 94.3 The River?

Or none of the above and Bold Gold jettisons WNAK which becomes part of the WGMF Gem 104 network?

Or 104.5 and 730 get totally new formats?

Interesting scenarios.
 
NXEA said:
According to the FCC WNAK(AM) is the now the primary station for FM translator W283BJ (104.5 Exeter). This was the Wilkes-Barre area translator for WGMF(AM). A construction permit shows the new signal for 104.5 will be 99 watts and have a killer Wilkes-Barre signal. What is interesting is this:

If you look at 104.9 WWRR's predicted 60dbu signal (the area where it can use a fill-in translator for any spotty coverage), the new 104.5 60dbu signal goes miles further south that WWRRs, so, WWRR cannot use the 104.5 to get a better signal into Wilkes-Barre as you cannot use a translator to extend your signal, BUT (and this is a huge BUT), if 104.5 is the translator for WNAK, iI think all WNAK has to do is simulcast WWRR, and voila, the River then appears on 104.5 legally and gets a much much stronger and better extended signal in Wilkes-Barre and Nanticoke and areas south.

Could we see 104.5/104.9/730 The River?

Or, WNAK could simulcast 94.3 (which it did in the past), and you get 94.3/104.5/730 The Talker. This then fills in a HUGE area where 94.3 has a weak signal, and is currently bumping up against 94.5 LPFM in Nanticoke.

Or: if WTRW ends up doing well on 94.3 only, might it end up as 104.5/104.9/730 The Talker, and 94.3 The River?

Or none of the above and Bold Gold jettisons WNAK which becomes part of the WGMF Gem 104 network?

Or 104.5 and 730 get totally new formats?

Interesting scenarios.
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Good old deregulation :mad:
 
It would be AM 730. 94.3 was only WNAK-FM for a short time, before becoming WLNP Lite 94.3. After Route 81 and their successors finally got out, they sold the FM and the two AM's 730 and 1440 WCDL to Bold Gold. Bold Gold has turned 94.3 into the Talker, and has been simulcasting its sports network on 1440. 730 has been dark since mid-February.

Has anyone confirmed the sale of 730 from Bold Gold to Geos? If it is true, I hope Geos puts WNAK back on the air with its adult standards format and isn't going to use it as a rebroadcast of Gem.
 
ognir rrats said:
It would be AM 730. 94.3 was only WNAK-FM for a short time, before becoming WLNP Lite 94.3. After Route 81 and their successors finally got out, they sold the FM and the two AM's 730 and 1440 WCDL to Bold Gold. Bold Gold has turned 94.3 into the Talker, and has been simulcasting its sports network on 1440. 730 has been dark since mid-February.

Has anyone confirmed the sale of 730 from Bold Gold to Geos? If it is true, I hope Geos puts WNAK back on the air with its adult standards format and isn't going to use it as a rebroadcast of Gem.
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Thanks for the info. Didn't 730 have a great signal at one time?

Talk on 94.3 Really...Oh my :-\
 
WNAK is now WZMF, but carrying the Gem 104 signal still.

WZMF day time coverage map

By the way, didn't WNAK, for a short time, have a permit to run 500 watts from 6 pm 'til midnight, and Bob Neilson gave up on running the station during those hours because the station didn't make any money doing so?

Or was it just 12 watts the whole time, and I am in error? I think it was in the 1980s, but I'm having a hard time pinpointing it.
 
The station has been off the air since at least Sunday. :-\

I don't know if it's a technical problem, or if the owners just threw in the towel.
If it's the latter, what a waste of a perfectly viable airspace! :mad:
 
Re: WZMF listed as rebroadcasting on 104.5

The relatively new Nautel bit the dust (so much for buying a new transmitter) and the Omnitronix (which Bob Sch brought back to life) has been on the air.....well on as much as an Omnitronix can actually stay on. I'm close to putting the 1960's vintage rca on...Bob's been working on this. Nautel has been really slow.

By the way....WZMF has a presunrise (115 watts); a post sunset (36 watts for 2 hours after sunset) and regular nite (12 watts). The presunrise and post sunset are quite good...the nightime is not so great. Now with 104.5 at Bunker Hill and 95.3 on Penobscot Knob WZMF has much coverage. Bob Neilson....who I met a few times (he was always very nice to me...I was usually helping Ron Sch.) would be proud.

KF
 
Re: WZMF listed as rebroadcasting on 104.5

Kevin Fitzgerald said:
The relatively new Nautel bit the dust (so much for buying a new transmitter) and the Omnitronix (which Bob Sch brought back to life) has been on the air.....well on as much as an Omnitronix can actually stay on. I'm close to putting the 1960's vintage rca on...Bob's been working on this. Nautel has been really slow.

By the way....WZMF has a presunrise (115 watts); a post sunset (36 watts for 2 hours after sunset) and regular nite (12 watts). The presunrise and post sunset are quite good...the nightime is not so great. Now with 104.5 at Bunker Hill and 95.3 on Penobscot Knob WZMF has much coverage. Bob Neilson....who I met a few times (he was always very nice to me...I was usually helping Ron Sch.) would be proud.

KF
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Here's a Nautel on Ebay for 2 grand. That sounds like a steal!
 
Zenith....thanks for the info...I'm running to the 3rd floor as I speak. Need one for BAX. I owe you one...got either a 69 Collins or a 62 ITA with your name on it!

KF
 
Freq change issues (its on 1450); sometimes Nautels require special costly procedures to change frequencies....still considering if avail.
 
Say, is the Raytheon RA-1000 still in the WNAK shack? Back when Mr. Nielson owned the station and I took care of it, I had the Omnitronix, the RCA and The RA-1000 all operational, with a somewhat kludgy Basic Stamp thing for automatic changeover when the Omnitronix would refuse to work in thunderstorms. If the RCA didn't stay up, the station would fall back to the RA-1000.

I'm really surprised the Nautel died, I've had good luck at other stations with Nautel AM transmitters.
 
The engineers at Nautel were baffled. The Ray is still there (can you imagine trying to move it!) but not in broadcast shape.

KF
 
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