Re: [IRCA] New TIS Station

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Doc.

	I think you have WQBG575 according to the FCC web site.  They broadcast 
from two sites.  For further information you can refer to http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-
bin/ws.exe/genmen/uls/uls_call_res.hts?db_id=19&callsign=WQBG575&application_
id=  If you click on "SITE" you can see where the transmitters are located. 

	Good luck.

Bill Harms


On 5 Apr 2005 at 12:12, Tom Gruis, EdD, KØHTF wrote:

> Good Midday!
> 
> 	I discovered this morning that Des Moines, Iowa - not New Mexico or
> Washington - has a TIS station on 1670. The call is WQVG-575. The paper
> indicates it is sponsored by the Department of Transportation and the
> Highway Patrol. Announcements of closures, slowdown, whatever are made
> through a cycle. Then there is a little music bridge followed by promotional
> announcements about Iowa and a few of our attractions here. These are also
> separated by a little music bridge. The "announcer" announces "And now back
> to the traffic reports" and so it repeats. Probably won't grab the ratings!
> 
> 	I think this is the first TIS in Des Moines.
> 
> 	Our freeway is in the worst phases of reconstruction! This station
> can't hurt! Besides the recording it also announces that emergency items
> will be broadcast immediately.
> 
> 	Just for avid chasers of AM signals. I don't know any particulars.
> It is audible a couple of miles from the freeway in NW Des Moines.
> 
> 	The suburb of Urbandale has a station on 1210 located in their fire
> station, if memory is correct. Much of the time it repeats the local NOAA
> station, WXL-57.
> 
> 	Saylorville Dam just north of the city, a.k.a., Saylorville Lake
> also has a station on 1610 that has been there for 15 + years. 
> 
> 	The new installation seems to have better coverage than the other
> two.
> 
> 	Why, my Dymeck-McKay AM-5 doesn't have the X-band on it!
> 
> 	Have a good day.
> 
> Doc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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