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WVBV Medford Lakes on ...

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tom

WVBV 90.5, licensed to Medford Lakes, 21,000 watts
toward Medford Lakes, and 8 watts on the sides and
back signed on from the 500 foot tower on the
Atlantic City Expressway near the Egg Harbor Toll.

They are in HD - pretty decent signal toward Philly,
but I could barely get it coming up the Expressway
until I could see the tower !

Another HD note ... WXTU and WUSL are both "multicasting"
WXTU has another country format on, WUSL just repeating
the main channel. They sound good ... except there is
no analog fallback like you would have on the main channel.
Close to Philly I didn't get any dropouts at all.
 
Tom said,
> WVBV 90.5, licensed to Medford Lakes, 21,000 watts
> toward Medford Lakes, and 8 watts on the sides and
> back signed on from the 500 foot tower on the
> Atlantic City Expressway near the Egg Harbor Toll.
>
> They are in HD - pretty decent signal toward Philly,
> but I could barely get it coming up the Expressway
> until I could see the tower !
>
> Another HD note ... WXTU and WUSL are both "multicasting"
> WXTU has another country format on, WUSL just repeating
> the main channel. They sound good ... except there is
> no analog fallback like you would have on the main channel.
> Close to Philly I didn't get any dropouts at all.
>
Tom,
Did you build the WVBV-FM Elwood site?
If so is the equipment at the base of the tower in the 6 X 20 foot refrigerator shelter (it was a portable refrigerator locker in its past life)?
When I was Lead Field Engineer for Metrocall Paging we had 8 cabinets of equipment in that rodent infested site. The owner never had the tenets close off cable runs to the tower and all the local small wildlife would make a home in the shelter. He also never cared how the cables were run up the tower; the cables were all bundled together. If we had to change a cable we had to cut loss all the cable around ours and retie the bundle. The other problem was the owner paid for the Electricity for the HVAC and the tower beacons (each tenet had they own meter). Atlantic City Electric would pull the owners meter about once a year, for not paying the electric bill. The site would then over heat within 30 minutes to 150 degrees (we and the other paging companies ran 300 watt transmitters) and the tower would be dark.
After I left Metrocall, due to chapter 11 they moved out and shut down all channel but 2 frequencies. I am glad to now be working at the FAA Tech Center.
Robert Pantazes, W2ARP
 
Hey Bob ! Nah ... I have no involvement -
just a report on what I heard and saw.
WRDR wanted to locate there back in the
early 90's before the current Egg Harbor City
tower went up. Funny stuff.

> Did you build the WVBV-FM Elwood site?
> If so is the equipment at the base of the tower in the 6 X
> 20 foot refrigerator shelter (it was a portable refrigerator
> locker in its past life)?
 
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