WTHI-HI 99

[radio lover]

I was in Terre Haute today and visiting some friends at the Holiday INN and we tried to listen the radio while sitting by the pool and WTHI was bleeding all over the dial. I know WMGI and WBOW are 50 KW stations, they where the only other stations we could clearly listen to. We couldn't listen to any 6kw stations in the listening area. I'm guessing we where about 7 miles from the tower of WTHI, is this normal to have them all over the dial! Can this happen if they are operating at legal power??

 

[PTBoardOp94]

That depends on several factors. Foremost is the type of radio. I was listening to CROCK 92.7 all the way through TH on my way from Indy to Evansville. I was driving a Buick automobile.

Right now I'm about 1/2 mile from a 50 kilowatt FM. On my clock radio, I cannot receive a 3kw FM broadcasting from the next town (15 miles or so) It comes in clearly in the Buick.

Bleedover is a very common complaint. It is rare for a station to be found in violation of FCC regs.

 

[IndyDan]

where about 7 miles from the tower of WTHI, is this normal to have them all over the dial! Can this happen if they are operating at legal power??

You didn't make mention of what kind of radio you were listening on, but if it's the typical portable, then WTHI was probably overloading the front end of the receiver, making it almost impossible to hear the weaker stations. Without getting too technical, it's not the fault of the station, but rather the design of the radio and it's ability to handle a variety of signal strengths. Your location was probably not the best for ideal listening and the radio was probably doing the best it could for its' overall design. Unless for some strange reason the WTHI transmitter was splattering stuff all over the band, they were more than likely operating within the proper parameters.

 

[radio lover]

I was using a old radio shack radio, about 10 years old. I once knew someone who lived in Terre Haute and he could hear HI-99 through his cordless telephone.

 

[11south]

I was using a old radio shack radio, about 10 years old. I once knew someone who lived in Terre Haute and he could hear HI-99 through his cordless telephone.

Get a better radio. Find friends with better cordless phones. Or just refrain from visiting Terre Haute. Based on my last trip through there, that may be the best option.

 

[Steppenwolf]

Re: WTHI-HI 99 or SHINE???

Is HI-99 the same station as one called SHINE? I used to work in radio but no longer nor do I listen to it. I load the songs I want to hear through my car's FM radio onto my mp3 and tune it to 107.5 here in the Indy area. Last week on the northwest corner of town on 465 a radio station that referred to itself as SHINE was coming thru over the top of my mp3 on 107.5 FM. What station was it?

 

[Kent]

Shine 99 is WSHW. I can't remember exactly where it's licensed, but I remember it having a particularly good signal around Crawfordsville. If I remember correctly, it recently got a translator at 107.5 for Zionsville, and that was probably what you were hearing.

 

[ten_four]

Shine 99 is licensed to and has their main studio in Frankfort. Their 400 foot stick with a 12 bay antennae and 50,000 watts ERP at 99.7 mhz, is just off state road 26 west of the intersection with state road 29. The station was WILO-FM at 6,000 watts until April 1982 when the 50K Shine hit the air. Cecil Heftel (then owner of 99.5 Greenfiled) helped Vern Kaspar put his stick there after rumors were floated that Shine would build their tower close to Lebanon, still putting a class A signal into Frankfort and taking out part of the Indy metro away from Heftel's fledgling "rimshot." Kaspar's intent is to draw audience and advertising from Lafayette and Kokomo, and now with the repeater the Zionsville market.