Powerpig56 said:
Now, I bet that's interesting.. I've never seen that happen..
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Now, I bet that's interesting.. I've never seen that happen..
radioguybroadcasting said:
Dick Merrill, the News Director/Engineer at the time, called it "St. Elmo's Fire".
There are 2 FM's on one of the towers, sharing the antenna, 96.7 Hank-FM and 107.1 the Monkey
waynewatkins said:
I thought 96.7 Hank FM was up there, but wasn't sure and I didn't know 107.1 The Monkey was up there.... Cool, thanks for sharing!
I remember seeing a set of eight towers (4 inline X 2 parallel rows = eight towers) for the WROA directional (DA-2) array. All 5,000 watts - day and night - are blown directly South over the Gulf of Mexico. It comes in beautifully at night here in North Central Florida. Is it programming full-time adult standards now? What about any national news affiliation? I discovered WROA when the format was beautiful music. Does anyone know what music service 1390 was using when it was Easy Listening/Beautiful Music? Or was the format programmed "in-house"?
Mark Tillery
Ocala, Florida
WOCA-AM 1370 WRLQ-FM 95.9
Mark Tillery
Ocala, Florida
WOCA-AM 1370 WRLQ-FM 95.9
107.1 has been there for as long as I can remember. 96.7 just moved there after Katrina from a site always flooded by the Biloxi River just north of I-10.
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MN Maniac
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Wayne,
Has 107.1's signal suffered on the east side since WYCL moved further west? I realize they downgraded to 50kW (C to C0), but they're also closer than they were before. The new coverage map extends WYCL's mid-grade signal to the west side of Gautier.
Has 107.1's signal suffered on the east side since WYCL moved further west? I realize they downgraded to 50kW (C to C0), but they're also closer than they were before. The new coverage map extends WYCL's mid-grade signal to the west side of Gautier.
Though a direct adjacency, no interference or complaints. Next time I drive east to Mobile, I'll punch 'em up...
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waynewatkins said:
The 107.1 signal got a bit hairy for me at about Singing River Mall. East of there, 107.3 would start to tear it up. By Pascagoula, it was tough to hear 107.1.
MN Maniac said:
And since the 60dbu of WYCL and WXYK don't cross, and the 50dbu's barely cross, unfortunately.. the FCC deems that as OK.
waynewatkins said:
107.1 used to be called WZKX (until sometime in the mid 80s) and was the FM sister to WROA, which is why it's on WROA's tower. When co-owned WRPM-FM in Poplarville got approval to move to WXXV's stick and upgrade it signal, you could still only have one FM per market, so they had to sell 107.1. This was mid 80's. The folks who owned the drive-thru fast food chain (similar to a Rally's or Checkers, what were they called??) bought it, and Lite 107 was born.
It really makes you feel old, when you tell a story and you realize you can't remember all the details as you once could. lol
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kevinkelly said:
Lite 107, with the calls WXLS at the time, was purchased from the Dowdys by the Steelman family, who also owned Indy's restaurants. Famous for their flame-broiled burgers and battered fries. The Steelmans already owned 1490 AM, which was, at the time, WBND, running a satellite big band format. Bob Edwards was the veteran morning guy--and later ran for local political office and lost, after a brief stint with the then-fledgling WXXV-TV 25.
The two radio stations were located in the building that was (is?) across the parking lot from Channel 13. That small, cinder-block building later held four or five stations (tight squeeze!) after the Steelmans sold their cluster. That group is, of course, now owned by Triad.
By the way, is The Reverend still spinnin' the hits on Hank?
BaronBean said:
Oh good Lord, memories of the WLOX parking lot, six of us shared the conference room as an office, and the sales department was around the corner on Gulfwater. In 1997, it was Gulf Coast Radio Partners (Mike Schwartz) that bought the Steelman chain (1490 AM, 96.7, 105.9 & 107.1), Jack White's 97.9 WCPR, and 540 WVMI (moved to 1640 as WTNI). Triad (David Benjamin) bought the stations from GCRP in 1999.
The Rev is doing PM drive on 96.7 HANK-FM (V/T), as he's having a blast and sounding damn good doing morning drive with William Sackett on my Talk Radio 1640 WTNI (http://www.1640wtni.com).
Maybe my memory isn't what is used to be, but wasn't WVMI on 570 AM? At least it was when I worked there.
It was on 570, of course. I'm sure 540 was a typo.
Wow. Collins Powell on 1640? I'll have to check that out en route to drop off the kids this morning; I can hear 1640 here in Memphis pretty easily at night/critical hours.
Now, as far as WROA is concerned... they are loud, loud, loud to the south at night. Back in High School, I was in Honduras. WROA was by far the strongest US station on the dial. I wonder what the forward gain is inside the main lobe at night.
DE
Wow. Collins Powell on 1640? I'll have to check that out en route to drop off the kids this morning; I can hear 1640 here in Memphis pretty easily at night/critical hours.
Now, as far as WROA is concerned... they are loud, loud, loud to the south at night. Back in High School, I was in Honduras. WROA was by far the strongest US station on the dial. I wonder what the forward gain is inside the main lobe at night.
DE
My bad, Ol'timers disease setting in!
DeadElvis said:
One of the engineers told me it was 40 KW. There is a way to calculate it from the parameters of the directional array, but I don't know how to do it. Equally impressive is how little power goes north and west. By the time you hit the Stone Co. line going north on 49, it's gone. Same when you hit the La. border going west on 10. The station covered more land area when it was a 1 KW ND daytimer.
40 kW, hmmm? That would make forward gain 9 dB That's probably about right. And, yeah. The nulls would be really deep.
And I did hear a little of Collins Powell this morning. WTNI was having a tough fight with Milwaukee, so I didn't get a lot. Still, it was an odd flashback to WKKY!
DE
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And I did hear a little of Collins Powell this morning. WTNI was having a tough fight with Milwaukee, so I didn't get a lot. Still, it was an odd flashback to WKKY!
DE
(via iPhone)
I could be wrong, but I think WROA is 5kw directional.
> I could be wrong, but I think WROA is 5kw directional.
You are not wrong. It is 5 kW. But, that's 5 kW input.
If one send RF into a directional array, one gets "gain" in one or more directions. That gain (in this case, ~9 dB, if the numbers I was given are correct) increases concentration of power in some directions, and attenuates in others. The amount of concentrated power is often referred to a Effective Radiated Power ("ERP").
CatFM noted that an engineer told him WROA is 40 kW inside the main lobe (concentration). That is 40 kW ERP. In other directions, ERP will be well-less than 5 kW, maybe as little as a hundred watts.
DE
You are not wrong. It is 5 kW. But, that's 5 kW input.
If one send RF into a directional array, one gets "gain" in one or more directions. That gain (in this case, ~9 dB, if the numbers I was given are correct) increases concentration of power in some directions, and attenuates in others. The amount of concentrated power is often referred to a Effective Radiated Power ("ERP").
CatFM noted that an engineer told him WROA is 40 kW inside the main lobe (concentration). That is 40 kW ERP. In other directions, ERP will be well-less than 5 kW, maybe as little as a hundred watts.
DE
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