Follow-up To NERW Piece On W221CH

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Why would they ID as WNNW AM and FM Lawrence? Lawrence.

If the Translator is licensed to Lawrence, the ID will have to be, "WNNW
Lawrence, W221CH Lawrence"

I've heard several AM's that have translators do it that way.  I hear WTNK
1090 Hartsville, TN ID as "AM 1090 WTNK Hartsville.. and 93.5 W229BG
Hartsville".

You couldn't ID as "WNNW and W221CH Lawrence" because both don't have the
same set of call letters. If W221CH was really WNNW-FM, then you could ID as
"WNNW AM and FM Lawrence" as long as both have the same calls and city of
license.

Most translators run by the religious networks do an inaudible FSK ID, but
that's not how it NEEDS to be and isn't required. You can ID a translator by
voice like any other station.. and I much prefer that over an FSK ID so I
know what the heck I'm listening to.

Paul Walker

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Laurence Glavin <lglavin@mail.com> wrote:

> Those of you who read Scott Fybush's Northeast Radio Watch every Monday are
> aware that Costa-Eagle just went through the gyrations of Laocoon to place
> a
> translator for WNNW-AM 800 in Lawrence on that station's tower.  A week
> ago, I
> posted an item on radio-info.com observing that after three days of work,
> riggers had installed an FM antenna on the tippity-top of the tower.  On
> Friday,
> February 27th, testing of  the new facility on a frequency of 92.1  had
> begun.
> >From my location several miles due north of the tower, the signal was not
> very
> impressive, and by moving my antenna a little, I could pick up WPHX 92.1 in
> Sanford, ME (There was no receivable signal from WFEX, COL Peterboro,
> NH, transmitter atop Pack Monadnock, NH.)  But today, Saturday, the signal
> is
> much better, so originally they may have been running at less than the
> authorized 250
> watts, directional antenna seemingly oriented southeast although the data
> points at fcc.gov show the full-power at zero degrees, i.e. due north.
>  Anyway
> on my car radio, it now blasts into South Lawrence and Andover and
> splatters all
> over WUMB-FM 91.9 from Boston.  Now, although Scott allocated a fair amount
> of verbiage to this outlet, it may appear that it's a lot of hoo-haw about
> a
> "translator" to fill out an AM signal, especially at night.  But remember,
> when 93.7 was on that tower, its HAAT was about 440 feet, and the antenna
> up
> there now appears to be 20 or 30 feet higher, so what we have here is a
> fairly serious signal...again 250 watts H&V at close to 500 feet.  It
> appears
> that cities and towns where people buy more ketchup than salsa will be the
> beneficiaries of the signal after WNNW is put on it, but it will definitely
> reach more people than the pirate and licensed stations in the area  (99.1
> and
> 99.9 respectively).  And since WNNW-AM has been broadcasting in IBOC for a
> long time, it's definitely FM-stereo ready.
> One question:  will the station ID be: "WNNW, and W221CH, Lawrence" or WNNW
> AM&FM, Lawrence"?
>
>
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