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WXXC is a 50,000 watt powerhouse!!!
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Impressive.....but still hard to top WHOM (94.9), Mt.Washington, NH....48kw ERP, HAAT ~4700' (Mt. summit is 6288' ASL....)
Studios are in Portland, ME. -- about 50 miles east --- they were using 8' dishes for their STL (back in the good ol' analog days.....!)...
They have listeners in NY, VT, NH, ME and Quebec, Canada.....
Up until about 15 years ago, they shared transmitter space with WMTW-TV (Channel 8)....both were powered by a huge diesel generator on the summit....
The generator and TV are gone....commercial power is fed "to the top" now......
Studios are in Portland, ME. -- about 50 miles east --- they were using 8' dishes for their STL (back in the good ol' analog days.....!)...
They have listeners in NY, VT, NH, ME and Quebec, Canada.....
Up until about 15 years ago, they shared transmitter space with WMTW-TV (Channel 8)....both were powered by a huge diesel generator on the summit....
The generator and TV are gone....commercial power is fed "to the top" now......
I've carried WXXC along US 31 from the Indianapolis area up to South Bend.
Another FM has joined them (WHOM) up there. 103.7 WPKQ (21.5kW at 3800' HAAT)
Another FM has joined them (WHOM) up there. 103.7 WPKQ (21.5kW at 3800' HAAT)
Always has had a good signal (though Docket 80-90 stations and now translators have chipped away. In their WMRI days, they and WMRN, Marion, Ohio on the same 106.9 would both come at my home in West Central Ohio. At one time WMRN networked 3 other stations, 95.3 in Brookston (Lafayette), one of the Terre Haute stations (I think 102.7) and a 96.9 near South Bend. Didn't matter what the format hole in each market was, they were broadcasting their Beautiful Music which morphed into New Age/New AC/Smooth Jazz.
Yep.....Hard to believe 103.7 was -- WAY back when -- the old WMOU-FM in Berlin!!!
When WMOU-FM was on its last legs .....it was running ~600 watts from an RCA BTF-1D, feeding a home-brew single-bay CP antenna atop a 20' Radio Shack TV mast...
Fed with about 30' of "trusty" RG-8/U!! (it was too hot to touch!!!)....the original antenna had holes in the hardline you could stick your fingers through!!!
The transmitter building had a screen door for "security".....That's all, folks!!
This was circa 1974......BTW.....WPKQ is a "satellite" of WOKQ 97.5 in Dover, NH, playing Modern Country....owned by Townsquare -- the have a business office in nearby North Conway....
I never could get the old WMRI during my few months in Indy in '99. I lived near 86th and Township Line. So, maybe that’s not a huge surprise with the Indy tower farm being a mile or two away and the former WBKS at 106.7.
As gr8oldies mentions, I could get the WMRI programming as WLEZ 102.7 from Terre Haute came in at my location (as did the former WZZQ 107.5). Bomar had already gotten rid of Lafayette and South Bend by the time I got to Indy, and WMRI/WLEZ were lite rock. I remember the network did a statewide weather forecast every hour as though it still had the stations it had recently divested.
As gr8oldies mentions, I could get the WMRI programming as WLEZ 102.7 from Terre Haute came in at my location (as did the former WZZQ 107.5). Bomar had already gotten rid of Lafayette and South Bend by the time I got to Indy, and WMRI/WLEZ were lite rock. I remember the network did a statewide weather forecast every hour as though it still had the stations it had recently divested.
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