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PHIL Z

Wpit am 730 now has an FM translator on 96.5 with 250 Watts looks like directional to the West. The FM is located on the am Tower. FCC website said license was granted on February 17th 2017.
 
Channel master said:
96.5 WKYE Johnstown, Pa. is not too happy about this. Less coverage for a 50,000watt station.
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The protected contour of WKYE does not even come close to the coverage of a westward-directional translator. In fact, the 60 dbu contour of WKYE only reaches the eastern third of Westmoreland County, far from the new translator which, to the east, does not even "escape" Allegheny County.
 
The recovery room at West Penn Hospital located on Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield Pittsburgh likes to listen to key 95 from Johnstown and the signal was loud and clear.
 
PHIL Z said:
The recovery room at West Penn Hospital located on Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield Pittsburgh likes to listen to key 95 from Johnstown and the signal was loud and clear.
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Again, that is outside the FCC established protected contour. Unless there are listener objections from that area filed at the FCC, the translator is totally in compliance.
 
David, did you help engineer the translator? On their AM side when they decrease power their is a few seconds of dead air in between changes.
 
PHIL Z said:
David, did you help engineer the translator? On their AM side when they decrease power their is a few seconds of dead air in between changes.
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I am not involved with the WPIT operation.

When WPIT changes from daytime to night operation, they go from 5,000 watts to 24 watts. Very few transmitters (if any) operate efficiently at both power levels so likely they use two separate transmitters, and that requires turning one off, switching the connection to the tower from one to the other and then turning the other transmitter on. This generally takes a second or two.
 
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