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WSBX-AM 1020 is on the Air
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jmtillery said:
Since he is willing to carry some paper, AND give free rent for a year, my guess is that he owns the property but wants to hold onto the real estate and generate some long term revenue from the fool that buys the place. Plus its easier to reposess it if you still own the land when/if the buyer defaults!
Y'all are right. If "the next Greater Fool" comes along and tosses money at WSBX in its current state, it's like putting a match to it. Here's a better idea...
Our pal Woody needs to file with the commission to move that SOB about a hundred (+) miles south in order to get far enough away from KDKA to slap a night signal on that rascal. Daytime-only AM licenses are virtually worthless. But a fulltime AM? Well, still not worth much--but maybe enough to cover some of his Thomasville expenses.
Citrus Springs, Florida. In lovely Citrus County--where actual people live (144,000 of them) and there aren't a shitload of local signals, already. (Yeah, I know--it looks better on paper than reality, but that's the point). 811 miles from Pittsburgh... and you need 750.
Tower site would need to be as far east as you can get--over by the lake, I suppose--in order to shoot the signal (especially the night signal) west into the Gulf. With the lousy conductivity in that area it should be able to configure a DA providing protection to 1010 in Seffner-Tampa and 1030 in Oveido-Orlando. Three or four towers ought to do it, with the primary lobe W/SW.
And he sells the CP and washes his hands of the whole thing.
But I'm not a consulting engineer. Y'all who are the real experts may now check in and tell us why this can't be done.
Our pal Woody needs to file with the commission to move that SOB about a hundred (+) miles south in order to get far enough away from KDKA to slap a night signal on that rascal. Daytime-only AM licenses are virtually worthless. But a fulltime AM? Well, still not worth much--but maybe enough to cover some of his Thomasville expenses.
Citrus Springs, Florida. In lovely Citrus County--where actual people live (144,000 of them) and there aren't a shitload of local signals, already. (Yeah, I know--it looks better on paper than reality, but that's the point). 811 miles from Pittsburgh... and you need 750.
Tower site would need to be as far east as you can get--over by the lake, I suppose--in order to shoot the signal (especially the night signal) west into the Gulf. With the lousy conductivity in that area it should be able to configure a DA providing protection to 1010 in Seffner-Tampa and 1030 in Oveido-Orlando. Three or four towers ought to do it, with the primary lobe W/SW.
And he sells the CP and washes his hands of the whole thing.
But I'm not a consulting engineer. Y'all who are the real experts may now check in and tell us why this can't be done.
And IIRC, his mother is named Doreen Blood, and she's the actual owner of Woody's Greater Thomasville Paradise.
Sure enough, according to the FCC database:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=37449
Looks like Doreen/Georgia Triangle Broadcasting filed for a silent STA on 12/30.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...3104&Service=AM&Form_id=910&Facility_id=37449
No idea if Woody wrote this or not:
Sure enough, according to the FCC database:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=37449
Looks like Doreen/Georgia Triangle Broadcasting filed for a silent STA on 12/30.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...3104&Service=AM&Form_id=910&Facility_id=37449
No idea if Woody wrote this or not:
I like the idea of moving 1020 far enough away from KDKA to be able to add decent night service; However, I'm not sure it will fit in Central Florida wedged between 1010 Seffner, 1010 Jacksonville and 1030 Orlando, all three 50kw facilities. Of course, with enough towers in place you should be able to wedge most anything anywhere. The problem with that is how good of a signal will a highly directional AM produce? I'm not a consulting engineer so I cannot say definately for certain what can and cannot be done from a technical standpoint, but it may be worth looking into to determine what options might be available. Regardless, most anything is better than remaining silent.
jmtillery said:
Agreed. Fort Myers (COL: North Fort Myers Shores?) would be a better bet. A hundred miles clearance + pattern null from co-channel in Kendall, plus same from Seffner's 1010. Slam dunk.
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MN Maniac
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Problem is, these things cost money to build. Start constructing directional arrays and you're talking serious money. Especially with all the environmental regulations and other assorted federal/state/county/city layers of red tape and bureaucratic nonsense. Except for a few big, heritage stations, AM radio is all but dead these days. Hate to admit it. I love AM radio, too. But that's the way it is.
Given all of this plus the current state of the economy, does it make sense to build 1020 anywhere in the state? Probably not.
Given all of this plus the current state of the economy, does it make sense to build 1020 anywhere in the state? Probably not.
More to the point, moving the WSBX license that far would take it out of the realm of a "minor change" and into the realm of a "major change," and that takes an FCC filing window (the last one was in 2004) and potentially an auction if it ends up mutually-exclusive to other applications.
Another legal consideration no one, so far, has mentioned is WSBX is the only radio station licensed to Ochlocknee, Georgia. Any COL changes with WSBX will require replacing it's license with another primary licensed AM, FM or NCE-FM assigned to and licensed to Ochlocknee. One possiblity might be to re-license one of the Thomasville AMs to Ochlocknee to replace WSBX.
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ncfradio
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Mark, you beat me to it. I was going to ask about moving out of the COL with no other station licensed there. Thought that would be the case.
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