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10 or 15 years ago Cox (or whoever owned the station at the time) should have gone with the extra 24 feet allowed for a class B FM even if they would have "lost" some power. I know it would have been an extra section of tower to put up and you might have had to buy a fancy "directional" antenna to protect WQMF but you would have a little better signal south towards Dayton and Cincy. I wonder it this will mess with PPM units in Hamilton or Middletown.

http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WHIO-FM
 
Too late. Their CP has been dismissed and deleted from the FCC database. They waited too long and their CP expired and they never filed for a License To Cover. If they are on the air right now, they are illegal.
 
secondchoice said:
10 or 15 years ago Cox (or whoever owned the station at the time) should have gone with the extra 24 feet allowed for a class B FM even if they would have "lost" some power. I know it would have been an extra section of tower to put up and you might have had to buy a fancy "directional" antenna to protect WQMF but you would have a little better signal south towards Dayton and Cincy. I wonder it this will mess with PPM units in Hamilton or Middletown.

http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WHIO-FM
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That's not at all true.

First of all, it's only 16.35 feet short, not 24. (As if either one would make a difference.)

Second of all, if a directional antenna was required to protect WQMF there is no way in hell to make a directional FM antenna that could null toward Louisville and at the same time radiate 50KW toward Cincinnati from Piqua.

Third, even if such an antenna was possible, you'd be limited to 50 KW ERP maximum. That's surely less than they are currently radiating given that it's a side-mounted non-directional with the bays pointed south.
 
1. WVQC has been on the air for months. That article is from November.
2. COX gave up on the WHIO-FM move because it wasn't worth it
3. No effect on PPM because WVQC and the other stations that share the frequency do not get out far enough to bother anybody.
 
Before Cox bought 95.3 and 95.7 it was a tech nightmare. Just ask anyone who worked there, including me. The previous owners didn't have the money to spend on any serious upgrades in studio or at the transmitter sites. The Chief Engineer was a really nice guy but he was a throwback to the 60's. If you could hear it, that was fine. If it went off the air, well, we'll get around to fixing it. Thanks to Greg Hahn and other Cox engineers, as well as the investment Cox made, these signals became "real radio". Before Cox, it was Mark Robert's programming that transformed the sleepy stations into an oldies powerhouse even with the technical issues. Now 95.7 is part of the news-talk giant and 95.3 is a solid classic hits operation. Time marches on....
 
TANKSBACK said:
Before Cox bought 95.3 and 95.7 it was a tech nightmare. Just ask anyone who worked there, including me. The previous owners didn't have the money to spend on any serious upgrades in studio or at the transmitter sites. The Chief Engineer was a really nice guy but he was a throwback to the 60's. If you could hear it, that was fine. If it went off the air, well, we'll get around to fixing it. Thanks to Greg Hahn and other Cox engineers, as well as the investment Cox made, these signals became "real radio". Before Cox, it was Mark Robert's programming that transformed the sleepy stations into an oldies powerhouse even with the technical issues. Now 95.7 is part of the news-talk giant and 95.3 is a solid classic hits operation. Time marches on....
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I think one has to credit Ron Gaier for being the guy to bring 95.3 and 95.7 up to "real radio" standards. As far as the transmitter sites go, they are pretty much exactly as he left them.
 
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