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WQTT 1270 & 96.7 Flip to Classic Rock
- Thread starter chad43358
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ThatVoice22
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WQTT (formerly WUCO for Union County) has one of the all-time goofy signal patterns --> https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WQTT&service=AM&h=D
The night pattern is pointed in the opposite direction --> https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WQTT&service=AM&h=N
Seems like an acrobatic mess and the null signal areas are terrible. They'd be ahead to go omni-directional daytime, even if it means a reduction in power. You can see the towers from US-33 in Marysville.
The night pattern is pointed in the opposite direction --> https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WQTT&service=AM&h=N
Seems like an acrobatic mess and the null signal areas are terrible. They'd be ahead to go omni-directional daytime, even if it means a reduction in power. You can see the towers from US-33 in Marysville.
If theyre running 500 watts day from 6 towers, there's no way in hell theyd get a 250 watts non directional.. and i dont think the fcc will let them downgrade to less then that by day
ThatVoice22
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I guess they're protecting WILE in Cambridge, seems like a tortured way to do it.
They haven't run that day pattern in almost a decade anyway. They've been night pattern 24/7 probably since 2010 or 2011, which is what allows them to be heard so well all over Columbus. That day pattern, as unbelievable as it might sound for as close as Marysville is to Columbus, cut out this area completely, even the areas closest to Marysville (it's only 11 or so miles away from the nearest suburban developments).
ThatVoice22
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Hat-tip to schmave, excellent to know that, thanks. I've been in Houston quite a while, but spent many moons driving on US33 between Columbus and Fort Wayne. I wonder why the FCC website and Radio-Locator.com both still have the kooky daytime pattern and no mention that it is no longer used.
radio locator and the fcc am query arent built to show STA's its in the CDBS database
ThatVoice22
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Hat-tip to SomeRadioGuy, too - thanks.
Glad to help. I once lived in Houston (2007-09) but am from here and have spent a lot of time myself on 33 driving between Columbus and St. Marys to visit family. 1270 is still audible to the west and northwest of Marysville daytime, but not nearly what it is in the other direction. I just checked the Elida SDR, maybe 60 miles northwest of Marysville right outside Lima, and WQTT is maybe a 2 on a 1 to 10 scale.
Agree, the only remnants of that licensed daytime pattern are what the FCC lists. Clearly it's long since been forgotten by the powers that be at the station.
WUCO was put on the air in the early/mid 80's by MidAmerica Radio owned by Ron Barlow. He announced to the Marysville chamber of commerce that he had applied for the station in 1982. He made it to the air in June of 84. I don't believe he had any other holdings.
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