WNVR 1030kHz Granted CP for 10kW

[radioman148]

I bet the WNVR studio monitor would pick up wbz - maybe a bit more than just iin the background.

About 30 years ago I was briefly interested in buying the Woodstock (IL) FM station. At that time the transmitter was in a trailer just down the road from WJEZ. I was blown away by the fact that at the transmitter, WJEZ came in LOUDER that the Woodstock station (call letters forgotten - but what a dump!).

Speaking of dumps, that same day we looked at the Dundee fm. Have either of those facilities "improved" any? We wound up buying WFDT, Columbia City, IN shortly there after. It was a better engineered "dump."

So many of these very low powered stations at night are just wasting electricity trying to get any usable signal against the 50KW giants.

 

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About 30 years ago I was briefly interested in buying the Woodstock (IL) FM station. At that time the transmitter was in a trailer just down the road from WJEZ. I was blown away by the fact that at the transmitter, WJEZ came in LOUDER that the Woodstock station (call letters forgotten - but what a dump!).

Speaking of dumps, that same day we looked at the Dundee fm. Have either of those facilities "improved" any? We wound up buying WFDT, Columbia City, IN shortly there after. It was a better engineered "dump."

Back in the 80's the Woodstock 105.5-FM was located in a cinder block building in a corn field off Rt-14. And it still is.

The Trailer you are speaking of belonged to 103.9-FM in Dundee. It truly was the definition of a dump...I remember having to repair the transmitter in that trailer during the wee hours of the morning...while the mice scampered about and the rain dripped in.

Things have improved since then though....they now have a newer trailer };>)

 

[Prais]

Thanks.

Being from Chicago, my family thought either of those stations would be GREAT. I never thought so. I CAN'T imagine trying to compete with the Chicago stations! Competing w/WOWO just 30 miles away was bad enough. At least there was a happy ending.

 

[T2909]

I would like to know when WNVR will boost their power, by that I mean what date will it happen? I bet their new 10kw signal will be heard better here in Miwaukee, Wis. I use an AM Select-Antenna to hear WNVR. I used to listen to it before they had a Polish format.


Tom

 

[DanStrassberg]

For what it's worth, the FCC no longer accepts applications for new Class D stations. They will however allow technical changes to existing Class D's.

Yes BUT, the FCC does still accept and does still grant applications from Class B AMs that wish to become Class Ds. The best examples (and there are dozens, if not hundreds of them) are Class Bs that lose their Tx sites and cannot find suitable land for replacement sites. In essentially all such cases, the lost site was home to a directional array and the best the station could do was find a site on which only one tower could be constructed (often, it was the site of another AM with which the "homeless" station could diplex; sometimes it was the site of a cell tower that could be skirted). In more than a few cases, the station wanted more daytime power but operation at higher power was not practical from the existing site. The station opted to move to get the higher daytime power but had to give up full-power nighttime operation and settle for Class D status, which permits powers of less than 250W equivalent.

So if you include as "new" Class Ds, stations that convert from a higher class to Class D, I'm sure that the last such downgrade has not yet been granted and is not likely to be granted for years to come.