WZLR - 95.3-FM - Browns Affiliate - Signal Coverage

[Cincinnati Kid]

I had the chance today to listen to the signal coverage of WLZR - 95.3-FM - Southwestern Ohio's only network affiliate for the Cleveland Browns Radio Network. In driving around the Lakota area along Cincinnati-Dayton Road using a digital radio in a new car, the signal was basically continuous, but not particularly clear. Strangely, later on in the Kenwood suburb of Cincinnati (Kenwood Road & Euclid Avenue), the signal was there and actually clearer. There was some dropout going up and down hills in that area. I don't think this is too bad for a 6,000 watt FM station whose tower is understood to be in Greene County.

 

[almaniac27]

By "digital" radio do you mean HD? WZLR is simulcast on WHKO 99.1's HD2 channel (in order to feed the 101.1 translator in southwest Dayton) so I wonder how far that gets. 99.1 is a pretty big signal, and I bet it comes in to the Lakota area pretty well. I have a tabletop HD radio, and I used it to hear Browns games last season in the Sharonville area. Now I live downtown in the basin, so there's no chance of either signal making it to where I am.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

By digital, I basically meant how the stations appear on the radio in the car. I have heard (and it may have been from you in a post on this same subject last fall) that the HD signal of WZLR coming off the WHIO-FM tower does boom into the Cincinnati area. I don't know much about HD radios in terms of cost, reception and where to see what is available to buy. The Browns' radio games are available on-line, but of course what is heard is far behind the actual on-field action.

 

[fedacct1]

By digital, I basically meant how the stations appear on the radio in the car. I have heard (and it may have been from you in a post on this same subject last fall) that the HD signal of WZLR coming off the WHIO-FM tower does boom into the Cincinnati area. I don't know much about HD radios in terms of cost, reception and where to see what is available to buy. The Browns' radio games are available on-line, but of course what is heard is far behind the actual on-field action.

I can receive them marginally on 71 starting up the hill in Kenwood, but I have to get pretty far north if I'm on 75 to hear them. I noticed this with WRZX Big 106.5 too, which I've even received out by Eastgate, Although officially omni-directional, the engineers at Big must have tweaked the transmitter somehow to get as much of the signal into Dayton as possible, and if that's the case would explain why it carries so well to the southeast. WZLR is directional to the west though to try to get as much of their signal into the main part of Dayton as possible.