WHOM question
Laurence Glavin
lglavin@lycos.com
Sat May 6 14:51:07 EDT 2006
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> Subject: WHOM question
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 12:55:39 -0400
>
> Notice that there are only two "W" callsigns in this list, and both of
> them are on Mount Washington. Note also that WHOM operates with an
> ERP approximately twice that of the all the other stations. (As
> Just by way of contrast, here are all the "superpower" FMs (those with
> more than 100 kW ERP for class Cs, or more than 50 kW ERP for class
> Bs, regardless of HAAT):
>
> Call. | Freq./MHz | HAAT/m | ERP/kW | City | St
> --------------+-----------+--------+--------+---------------+----
> KRTH-FM | 101.1 | 955 | 51 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> KLOS | 95.5 | 954 | 61 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> KRTH-FM | 101.1 | 927 | 54 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> KVYB | 103.3 | 905 | 105 | SANTA BARBARA | CA
> KLOS | 95.5 | 890 | 68 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> KBIG-FM | 104.3 | 882 | 84 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> KPFK | 90.7 | 863 | 110 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> KTWV | 94.7 | 863 | 52 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> WIPR-FM | 91.3 | 825 | 105 | SAN JUAN | PR
> WSLQ | 99.1 | 607 | 150 | ROANOKE | VA
> KSKS | 93.7 | 580 | 68 | FRESNO | CA
> KLYY | 97.5 | 557 | 72 | RIVERSIDE | CA
> KPFA | 94.1 | 405 | 59 | BERKELEY | CA
> KMEL | 106.1 | 393 | 69 | SAN FRANCISCO | CA
> KQED-FM | 88.5 | 387 | 110 | SAN FRANCISCO | CA
> WKSB | 102.7 | 387 | 53 | WILLIAMSPORT | PA
> KYSR | 98.7 | 360 | 75 | LOS ANGELES | CA
> WTSS | 102.5 | 355 | 110 | BUFFALO | NY
> KIOI | 101.3 | 354 | 125 | SAN FRANCISCO | CA
> KPFA | 94.1 | 340 | 59 | BERKELEY | CA
> WFGI-FM | 95.5 | 323 | 57 | JOHNSTOWN | PA
> KISQ | 98.1 | 309.6 | 75 | SAN FRANCISCO | CA
> KLLC | 97.3 | 309 | 82 | SAN FRANCISCO | CA
> KEAR | 106.9 | 305 | 80 | SAN FRANCISCO | CA
> WMC-FM | 99.7 | 277 | 290 | MEMPHIS | TN
> WKAR-FM | 90.5 | 273 | 86 | EAST LANSING | MI
> WILL-FM | 90.9 | 259 | 105 | URBANA | IL
> WDVE | 102.5 | 250 | 55 | PITTSBURGH | PA
> WOOD-FM | 105.7 | 247 | 265 | GRAND RAPIDS | MI
> WFBQ | 94.7 | 245 | 58 | INDIANAPOLIS | IN
> WIOG | 102.5 | 244 | 86 | BAY CITY | MI
> WBCT | 93.7 | 238 | 320 | GRAND RAPIDS | MI
> WUOM | 91.7 | 237 | 93 | ANN ARBOR | MI
> WNED-FM | 94.5 | 216 | 105 | BUFFALO | NY
> WHAD | 90.7 | 208 | 72 | DELAFIELD | WI
> WNTQ | 93.1 | 201 | 97 | SYRACUSE | NY
> WYYY | 94.5 | 198 | 100 | SYRACUSE | NY
> WGBH | 89.7 | 198 | 98 | BOSTON | MA
> WDCX | 99.5 | 195 | 110 | BUFFALO | NY
> KMYI | 94.1 | 188 | 100 | SAN DIEGO | CA
> WETA | 90.9 | 186 | 75 | WASHINGTON | DC
> WVGR | 104.1 | 183 | 108 | GRAND RAPIDS | MI
> WBCT | 93.7 | 180 | 70 | GRAND RAPIDS | MI
> WBUF | 92.9 | 177 | 91 | BUFFALO | NY
> WNCI | 97.9 | 171 | 175 | COLUMBUS | OH
> WKEE-FM | 100.5 | 171 | 53 | HUNTINGTON | WV
> WDTW-FM | 106.7 | 155 | 61 | DETROIT | MI
> WFRG-FM | 104.3 | 151 | 100 | UTICA | NY
> WUOM | 91.7 | 146 | 110 | ANN ARBOR | MI
> WPEL-FM | 96.5 | 140 | 57 | MONTROSE | PA
> WQXK | 105.1 | 136 | 88 | SALEM | OH
> WMBI-FM | 90.1 | 135 | 100 | CHICAGO | IL
> WSOY-FM | 102.9 | 135 | 54 | DECATUR | IL
> WXDX-FM | 105.9 | 131 | 72 | PITTSBURGH | PA
> WKQI | 95.5 | 130 | 100 | DETROIT | MI
> WGH-FM | 97.3 | 120 | 74 | NEWPORT NEWS | VA
> WOMC | 104.3 | 110 | 190 | DETROIT | MI
> WRVQ | 94.5 | 107 | 200 | RICHMOND | VA
> WQKT | 104.5 | 101 | 52 | WOOSTER | OH
> KZZO | 100.5 | 100 | 115 | SACRAMENTO | CA
> WOMC | 104.3 | 80.2 | 58 | DETROIT | MI
> WOMC | 104.3 | 79 | 58 | DETROIT | MI
>
> What's notable is that so few of them were built with any height at
> all; there used to be more, but over the years stations have found the
> call of additional HAAT to be more compelling than the "superpower"
> designation.
>
> -GAWollman
I notice that one of these stations with exceptional facilities is an
operation at 95.5 in Detroit. Hmmm. There's a 95.5 in Cleveland that
is a successor to WCLV which voluntarily moved off that frequency to one
with a lower power restriction. Detroit and Cleveland are not only
close together as the crow flies but are sparated by a huge lake so
that there wouldn't be much terrain-shielding but instead a straight
path mitigated only by a slight amount of the earth's curvature.
I wonder if WCLV's coverage area therefore was not all that great
taking into account the Detroit signal on the same frequency.
Something similar happened to the 94.9 in W. Yarmouth on Cape
Cod. In various places on the Cape, first WMTW-FM and then WHOM
could be heard interfering with WXTK while it was on 94.9.
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