Re: [IRCA] This week in Buffalo tropo & a bashing for Christian translators

[John Hunter <jshunter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John, I totally agree with you. Here in Chattanooga we have 3 
stations simulcasting the same format. 99.3, 97.3, and AM 980 WUUS 
Oldies 98. They are all equally strong here and IMHO it's a total 
waste of channel space. I'm not even sure who the translators are and 
who they are translating!
Then when I find a rare open channel with a super weak signal and I 
sit on it for an hour waiting for an ID it usually ends up being a 
translator for some church organization and they give out about 10 
other sets of call letters but never mention the frequencies. VERY 
frustrating. That's why I have pretty much given up on FM DXing.
BTW, I spent many summers in DE up there in a little town called 
Milford at my grand parents and am very familiar with that state. My 
father used to be head of the accounting dept and then later on was 
the plant controller at the Hercules/Atlas /ICI powder company I 
think in Wilmington and also at the Senter MI plant.
Sorry for the ramblings, I just noticed that you're from DE.
73's
John Hunter
Rossville GA


At 11:32 AM 11/5/2007, you wrote:
>There is just a whole lot of idiocy involved with this "translator
>shell game" anyway that really needs to be addressed.  For example,
>the aforementioned REACH-FM has what amounts to two translators that
>serve Dover, Delaware (on 98.7 and 106.9).  Why on earth do you need
>two translators to serve the whole town?  The 106.9 signal works just
>fine.
>
>That 98.7 signal?  If you look it up in the FCC database, you find it
>licensed to Smyrna, DE.  But the transmitter is actually in Woodside,
>Delaware, a full 20 miles away, on the southside of Dover.  You can
>barely hear 98.7 in Smyrna.  That one really makes me roll my eyes.
>
>I think a lot of these translator coverage areas do overlap anyway.  I
>can hear no fewer than 4 REACH-FM signals here in Smyrna without even
>trying hard.
>
>Of course, the secular stations are just as guilty of this translator
>farming, as seen in all the licenses I see locally for Temple
>University in this area.  Their 90.1 main signal does just fine and
>they really don't need half of the translators that they think they
>do.
>
>John Cereghin
>
>
>
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