WTNJ's new TX location
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WTNJ's new TX location
4.4 kw @ 1533 ft
Same location as WCIR
5 kw @ 1484 ft
That's quite the TX location...
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How realistic are such plots in a mountainous state like WV? I've driven much of the ground shown, but I can't remember if usable signals were available everywhere inside those circles.
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From a car radio's perspective, it's fairly accurate. I've heard WCIR well beyond the blue to the north. You can hear them good in the Huntington Mall parking lot, too. I assume WTNJ now has an almost identical footprint. For the most part, you could listen to them from Milton to Lewisburg on 64. On 77, from Flat Top to just past the Ripley exit.
Building penetration is shoddy, even in Beckley, but that's the tradeoff for low ERP. But in this terrain, it's pretty much the only choice there is if you want decent coverage without severe multipath.
I'm assuming that's why TNJ moved in the first place... Their previous location was beyond terrible.
Building penetration is shoddy, even in Beckley, but that's the tradeoff for low ERP. But in this terrain, it's pretty much the only choice there is if you want decent coverage without severe multipath.
I'm assuming that's why TNJ moved in the first place... Their previous location was beyond terrible.
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And I thought it was bad that out cable company carries PBY , PBO, and KAS. Even across three different states broadcasting systems, there's still about a 90% overlap in programming.Dave Loudin wrote:When we moved to Sutton, the local cable co. carried ALL THREE WV PBS stations. They still have 9 and 24, even though there is 100% overlap.
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Ever try DX'ing on Spruce Knob? Holy s#@t!Airwaves wrote:...in that weird area where you get either northern or southern WV radio totally dependent on where your hillside faces! Kinda a continental divide area!
Non-radio camping pals thought I was the only geek crazy enough to spend days hiking around with a radio (Panasonic 2200, R.I.P.) but on one trip a sizeable group of hams and other assorted radio misfits from metro DC were staged at the observation deck parking lot. I spent the day with the RF-brain-damage crowd while my pals fished. I caught OH, PA, MD, WV, VA, KY and NC FMs. Only thing my feeshin' buddies caught was a buzz.
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Must have been the Grid Pirates.
http://www.k8gp.net/
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When I go back home to see Mom and Dad in Buckhannon, I go on top of the hill (yes, that's what we call it) on the ridge @ Kesling Mill, and can hear dang near everything, from Parkersburg, Charleston, Wheeling, and at times WDGG in Ashland. My dad is now facinated by it, that Randy Johnson tweaked an old reciever for him, and we go home and DX.
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genlock wrote:Must have been the Grid Pirates.
http://www.k8gp.net/
Thanks, Genlock! I bet that was them. September '98, one old bus plus personal vehicles. I'm getting in touch with them.
For the record, I was wrong about DXing NC FM at Spruce Knob...wrong mountain.