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WQXE 98.3

I've wondered this ever since it signed on. Absolutely pointless. Destroys any chance of WVLK-FM ever being received in that area again. It actually had a decent signal the entire length of the Bluegrass Parkway before that stupid translator signed on.

On a related note, there's also a translator for 94.3 WULF on 104.5, which is also pointless. WULF provides a nice 65 dBu signal in Etown where the translator is located. There is no way people are having any trouble receiving 94.3 clearly in Etown. WLKT used to have a decent signal in and around Bardstown before the WULF translator. Those days are long gone.
 
Both translators are absolutely pointless and the absolute dog fight on 92.9 just outside of Etown is evidence of that. Even WBTF makes a nice trip that way at the amount of power they run but since there is no translator at 107.9, the signal can be heard well on a decent radio. I wish I had captured what happens to WVLK 92.9 to demonstrate that their signal is absolutely being trampled on by a translator that serves no purpose. Maybe I could understand if the main signal was a graveyard AM, but that's not the case.
 
These damn translators are eventually going to make distant reception obsolete. That plus the crap tuners going in radios now.
 
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