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WVMI570/WTNI1640

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Hey Weirdo:
Perhaps you or somebody you work with can answer this for me. Why was WVMI 570 abandoned when the station moved to 1640 with new calls. I could pickup the 570 signal all the way down the bayou in Galliano with the same clarity as WWL. The 1130 signal @250 watts out of your area is stronger than the 1640 signal.
 
The 570 towers were extremely tall and falling into disrepair.. and becoming very expensive to maintain.

1640 is on shorter stick and not enarly as ahrd to maintain. it's that simple, money was mostly the deciding factor as I recall being told.

ALso, 1130 WQFX is 1KW.. not 250W
 
Sorry; last time I saw the FCC site it was listed as 250w, must have been bad info. But what happened to the 570 allocation?
 
WQFX:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=WQFX&service=AM

When licensees of "regular" band stations (540kHz to 1600kHz) were awarded an "expanded" band station(1620kHz to 1700kHz) a 5 year time table was started.

You could simulcast or run seperate programming, but at the end of the 5 yuears you had to give one up.

There has been a stay on that 5 year rule though, with several owners of X Band lcienses filing STA's to remain on the air and keep both stations

Several people applied for a new 570 in the AM window that came thru in 2003, but it'll be awhile before anything happens with them.
 
Then you can probably catch WDLT 660 Fairhope,Ala. and WPMP 1580 out of Pascagoula also in Galliano...

But watch out on the 1130... Only time I catch WQFX is during the critical hours.. usually nothing up the bayou here in Thibodaux except a faint catch of KWKH from shreveport during the day that comes in booming at night and early mornings.

RFLA
 
I've heard WTNI in Central Pennsylvania (Lewisburg area) many times before Katrina. People would actually tune it in to catch the hornets games in that area.
 
RFLA said:
Then you can probably catch WDLT 660 Fairhope,Ala. and WPMP 1580 out of Pascagoula also in Galliano...

But watch out on the 1130... Only time I catch WQFX is during the critical hours.. usually nothing up the bayou here in Thibodaux except a faint catch of KWKH from shreveport during the day that comes in booming at night and early mornings.

RFLA
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Yes. Supprisingly WPMP comes in near the KLEB tower. Wonder if KLEB comes in the same near 'PMP's tower
 
I could hear KLEB 1600 all along the immediate coastline like a near local!
 
WTNI's daytime signal is somewhat limited. Even at 10kW, it's "iffy" in parts of Hancock Co. Especially as you move north and away from the Coast.

But the nighttime signal booms into Orando! When I lived down there, I'd listen to Michael Savage on 1640 during those nights when WDBO pre-empted him for Magic games.

Wayne: Did you keep WTNI @ 10kW nights immediately after Katrina? I tried to hear it here in Minnesota, but couldn't because of co-channel interference. Or did it go down in the storm?
 
It was on...but lowered at night...can remember those nights during storms on WNOE keeping it at 50KW...you could hear the POWER in the headphones (instead of KAAY bleeding in as it did on most nights LOL)! Beaker Street with O'Brian...now I'm showing my age!!!
 
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