WRMO Milbridge ME on the air

[Rod O'Connor]

Was just checking FM reception at the summit parking lot atop 1500-foot Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park at Bar Harbor. Was quite surprised to hear WRMO 93.7 Milbridge on the air in MONO with classic hits music.  Stayed tuned to them for about a half hour. No PSAs, commercials,announcements or  local info. Just a few liners "Greatest hits of all time, WRMO".

At 2:58PM they gave Legal ID "From Aerosmith to ZZTop these are the greatest hits of all time on 93.7 WRMO Milbridge" and into Brown Sugar by Rolling Stones.

According to FCC Data Base their revised CP is 130 watts from an antenna 13-meters/41 feet above ground level. Their original application was to be 50KW, but it expired back in July..I believe Scott had an item on it in one of his earlier NERWs.

Reception only lasted about halfway down the mountain, and not surprisingly, only on easterly facing portions of the highway. Signal very prone to  splatter from either WCYY 93.9 or WCTB 93.5

And here at home in SW Harbor, WRMO cannot be heard.

They must have just come on the air this past week. I was down in Milbridge just 2 weeks ago, and purposely tuned to 93.7 just to pick up any sort of singal, but nothing then.

It wil be interesting to see how well WRMO does with such a small coverage area. The town of Milbridge has perhaps 1,200 residents, and the two nearest towns of Cherryfield and Harrington are both less than 800. And being in Washington County, one of the most economically depressed portions of Maine, it may be a tough sell with advertising.

Still, I wish them the best..Good Luck!

Rod O'Connor
Southwest Harbor, Maine