As part of AM revitalization WVKO is being rebroadcasted on a translator from downtown Columbus at 92.9 FM. Signal hits eastern Franklin county (Whitehall, Bexley etc..)
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WVKO 1580 Translator on air / testing at 92.9
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After having driven to Westerville and Lewis Center the past two nights for work, I wanted to add a reception report now that WVKO's translator is back on ...
Driving up 270, WDLR owns the frequency once you clear Morse Road. Around the outerbelt, WVKO is best heard near the airport (although the volume is really low, much lower than WDLR). Although WDLR dominates north of Morse, there are still some random spots around Westerville and even right around the 270/23 interchange where WVKO breaks through. You don't really shake WVKO until you're north of the Delaware County line; even between there and 161, WVKO's signal, however faint, throws hints of interference where previously there were none.
Out here in Reynoldsburg, the two signals fight it out with WVKO being a bit more listenable. They really need to turn up the volume on their processing, though. Way too faint.
WDLR is aware WVKO is back on. Saw their midday DJ Tuesday night and let him know and he said they already knew; he himself said the interference was substantial on his drive to work the other day until he got north of Polaris.
Driving up 270, WDLR owns the frequency once you clear Morse Road. Around the outerbelt, WVKO is best heard near the airport (although the volume is really low, much lower than WDLR). Although WDLR dominates north of Morse, there are still some random spots around Westerville and even right around the 270/23 interchange where WVKO breaks through. You don't really shake WVKO until you're north of the Delaware County line; even between there and 161, WVKO's signal, however faint, throws hints of interference where previously there were none.
Out here in Reynoldsburg, the two signals fight it out with WVKO being a bit more listenable. They really need to turn up the volume on their processing, though. Way too faint.
WDLR is aware WVKO is back on. Saw their midday DJ Tuesday night and let him know and he said they already knew; he himself said the interference was substantial on his drive to work the other day until he got north of Polaris.
Wonder if Squire has an LMA?
I was out on the East Side last weekend and was listening to 92.9 "The Drum" for a bit (It's interesting that with the adding of the translator WVKO "The Praise" took the name of Percy's former format that he ran via leased HD signal on 95.9 before he sold 95.9 to Salem). "92.9 The Drum" fights hard with WDLR's translator even on Hamilton Rd on the East side - Out near Eastland Mall I was hearing WDLR try to fight it in - I would think Percy would do well to improve the processing on 92.9 - I know their likely feeding it via internet or something but they could still process it well and for cheap given some fairly low cost solutions like "Stereo Tool" and Breakaway Processing - don't need a 10,000k Orban or Omnia to sound good. But I also wonder if part of that processing is to also try to keep 92.9 WDLR at bay - After all their still fighting WMNI's translator at 95.1.. I can't imagine they are happy to see 92.9 WVKO on the air either.
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