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For those interested, American Family Radio's 91.7 WSQH Forest is now on the air with what appears to be AFR's AC feed.<P ID="signature">______________

Deep In The Heart of Dixie
Alabama/East TN/Kentucky/Mississippi</P>
 
> For those interested, American Family Radio's 91.7 WSQH
> Forest is now on the air with what appears to be AFR's AC
> feed.
>
Is this new station going to knock off the religous station in Raymond of the same frequency? The other raymond station on 90.7 disapeared after only a short time on the air. I assume it had something to do with the AFR station on 90.5.
 
> Is this new station going to knock off the religous station
> in Raymond of the same frequency? The other raymond station
> on 90.7 disapeared after only a short time on the air. I
> assume it had something to do with the AFR station on 90.5.

One would assume so...

The Raymond station is a translator. Translators get NO protection against full-power licensed stations. So, if there is short spacing, the translator loses.

Let's assume, just for the sake of this conversation, that it can remain on. I expect they wouldn't want to. I can't imagine how much co-channel pain a C2 56 miles away would do to a translator.

It's night-night, one would think.

DE
 
> > Is this new station going to knock off the religous
> station
> > in Raymond of the same frequency? The other raymond
> station
> > on 90.7 disapeared after only a short time on the air. I
> > assume it had something to do with the AFR station on
> 90.5.
>
> One would assume so...
>
> The Raymond station is a translator. Translators get NO
> protection against full-power licensed stations. So, if
> there is short spacing, the translator loses.
>
> Let's assume, just for the sake of this conversation, that
> it can remain on. I expect they wouldn't want to. I can't
> imagine how much co-channel pain a C2 56 miles away would do
> to a translator.
>
> It's night-night, one would think.
>
> DE
>


I don't know how much interference it would cause if any... according to the map on recnet.com, it's gonna have a directional signal and apparently the western edge of the city grade signal just barely will cover Forest. It could be that the signal might not even make it to Jackson. From personal experience, the station has a good signal on Hwy. 25 in the Four Corners area (Attala/Leake/Neshoba/Winston county line)... signal is fair in Carthage and is all but gone by the Attala/Leake Co. line on Hwy. 35.

Personally, I wish they'd have put the AC format on 90.5 and put the classic format on 91.7...

Question though... not that AFR would do it, but they bought 91.7 WJTA Kosciusko and shut the station off so that it wouldn't cause interference to WSQH. If AFR wanted to, could they fire WJTA back up and simulicast WSQH on it? Of course the liscence has been deleted and all, but would that have been a good way to go? If so, that's what I wish they would/would've done. To my notion, they paid for the station so go on and use it...

Just my thoughts though...<P ID="signature">______________

Deep In The Heart of Dixie
Alabama/East TN/Kentucky/Mississippi</P>
 
>If AFR wanted to,
> could they fire WJTA back up and simulicast WSQH on it? Of
> course the liscence has been deleted and all, but would that
> have been a good way to go? If so, that's what I wish they
> would/would've done. To my notion, they paid for the
> station so go on and use it...
>
> Just my thoughts though...

No.

The license isn't just gone, the allocation was deleted. To get a station back on in Attala Co. would require the entire process beginning from scratch. And, of course, 91.7 would not fit there today.

And, even if it did, the owners of WSQH would be in no better position than anyone else. Worse, in fact.

Ain't gonna happen. For many reasons.

DE
 
> No.
>
> The license isn't just gone, the allocation was deleted. To
> get a station back on in Attala Co. would require the entire
> process beginning from scratch. And, of course, 91.7 would
> not fit there today.

Yeah, I do realize that the allocation has been deleted...

>
> And, even if it did, the owners of WSQH would be in no
> better position than anyone else. Worse, in fact.
>
> Ain't gonna happen. For many reasons.
>
> DE
>

What made me even question the thought about the possibility that it could have worked was the existance of either 3 or 4 stations around New York City (two class A's and maybe a translator or two) all on 107.1 broadcasting the exact same programming a couple of years back... and if you look at the coverage maps for WWZY and WXPK on radiolocator.com, there is some overlapping on their signal. I'm no engineer and I've never been to New York City and I have no idea how the sky scrappers would play with the signals, but that is what made me question the ability of AFR to have done that if they had wanted to. Of couse Mississippi is a long way from NYC.

And out of curosity, why do you say that the owners of WSQH would be worse off than anyone else? <P ID="signature">______________

Deep In The Heart of Dixie
Alabama/East TN/Kentucky/Mississippi</P>
 
Re: WYAZ

WYAZ Yazoo City is now on at 89.5...<P ID="signature">______________

Deep In The Heart of Dixie
Alabama/East TN/Kentucky/Mississippi</P>
 
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