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WWCS power decrease? coverage pattern reset? buying power from Gabriel Brothers?

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jackb

Radio Locator's database continues to show WWCS as 5000/500 watts day/night, but there's an entry in the FCC's data that shows a CP for 3800 watts. Something seems to have happened shortly after the station switched from Radio Disney to being La Esplosiva / Fox Sports Radio. A daytime signal that boomed into Pittsburgh center city now seems lost in the static. I saw a reference some months back on PBRTV about their running lower power, but I have never seen this discussed anywhere else. If they have dropped to 3800 watts daytime, anybody know why? They have not relocated their tower.
 
I know at one point they filed for a power decrease because Birach also owned WGOP in Maryland, and
WWCS would make it into the DC Metro and cause interference on a good day. Did not know they had
actually done anything though.

It still booms in quite well at my house in the South Hills.
 
I did a bit of (probably faulty) math. It seems to me that even if WWCS shaved off 1200 watts, that would still drop their signal strength by only about .5 db. The decrease in signal I'm detecting seems much greater than that, so maybe something else is up. Engineers, please tell me if I screwed up my calculation.
 
jackb said:
I did a bit of (probably faulty) math. It seems to me that even if WWCS shaved off 1200 watts, that would still drop their signal strength by only about .5 db. The decrease in signal I'm detecting seems much greater than that, so maybe something else is up. Engineers, please tell me if I screwed up my calculation.
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I calculate the decrease as about 1.2 dB, which is still a pretty small decrease.

dB = 10 log ( P1 / P2 ) = 10 * log ( 5000 / 3800 ) = 10 log * ( 1.315789474 )

dB = 10 * 0.119186408 = 1.19186408 dB

This seems about right, since a doubling (or halving) of power is a 3 dB difference.
 
I have Been saying for the past 18 Months that the Signal is "LOW". When they were 250 watts Daytime Directing North The Signal was Stronger. I Am in Mccandless Twp. Today The Signal Was Even Weaker Than Last Week. 1110 WKEG is Stronger in North Hills and 1080 WWNL Walks over them here.
 
Parttimer said:
I almost wonder if someone didn't dig up their ground network.
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If you have not been there recently the housing development has crept up awfully close to the tower.
As in you look at a new home and say "Hmmmm.....would I want to be living there with that 3kW or 5kW
signal booming in just yards from my master bedroom?"

Perhaps during the excavation work they did do some damage to the ground system.
Accidentally or perhaps not.
 
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