WNSR 560, which has also been broadcasting in Central Kentucky on FM for awhile now, is finally getting closer to home with an FM signal. Southern Wabash is purchasing an FM translator from the son of WNSR GM Ted Johnson, located on 95.9, COL Reubensville, TN. The 15-watt translator, which has rebroadcast WAYM, will soon be beaming WNSR all over greater Portland, TN. Still won't reach Nashville, of course, short of miracle cloud alignment for the perfect skip, but can't say NSR isn't at least getting an FM a bit closer to home this time out.
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WNSR Getting FM Signal Closer to Home
- Thread starter jetfli
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this translator was (is) broadcasting Portland's 1270 WQKR...
Is there anything left locally on WNSR other than Thom Abraham in the afternoon? I quit listening to WNSR after Greg Pogue and David Coleman left the morning show was replaced by one of Yahoo Sports Morning Show. If they do get a FM signal that covers Metro, they will need a LOCAL morning show instead of one from a network to get me to listen.
How does this conform to FCC rules against FM translator's supposedly being heard outside of AM station's existing coverage areas?
firepoint525 said:
Portland is located within WNSR's 2.0 mV/m coverage.
On a factory Ford radio from 2008, I can get the Portland translator well in all areas of Portland (including areas north of the city proper incorporated only along highways). South, it starts switching between stations along the Highland Rim until it is completely covered up just north of the Gallatin corporate limit. Not bad for 15 watts on what looks like a water tower just slightly east of the city center. If WQKR is leaving that translator, where will it go if anywhere?
The translator is rebroadcasting the same one channel of the stereo audio program (unless they fixed it in the last couple days) with the same 10kc audio bandwidth and stereo pilot tone, but with different processing.
The translator is rebroadcasting the same one channel of the stereo audio program (unless they fixed it in the last couple days) with the same 10kc audio bandwidth and stereo pilot tone, but with different processing.
Seems like WNSR moved around first of the year. I thought Metro Center. Who knows about their programming but I'd think if the signal improves it would open up more possibilities.
I'll be interested to see what all these people with applications in, end up signal wise. With the right tower location and processing, several of those applications would be an interesting change of the landscape. Signal is a start, but programming needs to improve for sure. I'm not sure we need more local sports talk shows. We have a lot of speculation and perspective now. It starts to get redundant.
I'll be interested to see what all these people with applications in, end up signal wise. With the right tower location and processing, several of those applications would be an interesting change of the landscape. Signal is a start, but programming needs to improve for sure. I'm not sure we need more local sports talk shows. We have a lot of speculation and perspective now. It starts to get redundant.
I was actually referring to the existing Kentucky translator. No way that WNSR could be heard from that far away. Not with any usable signal, anyway.NoMoreMornings said:
The station in Kentucky isn't a translator. It's a full-license Class A FM station which can legally relay WNSR.
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=85772
I should note it's also off the air most of the time...
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=85772
I should note it's also off the air most of the time...
doesn't WNSR also have an application for 96.7 in Smyrna?
What is really the point in that station in Muhlenberg County, KY? It really serves nothing outside of Central City and Greenville, KY. Maybe has 40,000 people in that mostly rural signal.
DJOnAStick said:
it's my understanding that some at WNSR believed there was an outside chance to move the 103.9 signal to the WUBT tower
in Cross Plains... now 103.9 is a translator (night-time only) for 1160 WCRT.
romer979fm said:
That's a different 103.9. I'm pretty sure the Kentucky station could force the WCRT translator off the air in order to move into Tennessee.* However...
Romer: I heard the same thing about WNSR believing they could move the 103.9 signal closer to Nashville, although I hadn't heard specifically about the WUBT tower.
However, it doesn't even come close to fitting. By my calculations the WUBT tower is 56km from KDF (80km would be required for 103.9) and 30km from The Zone. (69km would be required)
* While the WCRT translator is in fact a translator from an engineering standpoint, the *legal* status of this thing is VERY different. It's perfectly legal but there's only one other FM station that's authorized in the same way.
w9wi said:
I was told this when also looking into using TRN satellite space as a "STL" to get programming
from Nashville to Drakesboro...nothing official...just speculation at that point (this was about 2000)
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jetfli said:
Ted is about as much a GM at the station as I am the mayor of Nashville because I once paid taxes there...I once wasted two out of town interviews with this this clown only to learn that his sales manager at the time made all the programming/hiring decisions. This sales manager treated him like a little b%^&* as well.
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