[B R-I] Re: W279BQ-103.7 On-Air (Where?); New Pirate On 94.9?

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

WikiMaps and Googlemaps show about the same location but theyre both off.

Look at S 20th street going South.. look to the left, see the oipen field
and the big round white blob? That's where the K04HL Antenna sits, on top
oif the town water tank.

As a side note, K02HJ is at the OTHER end of town and it's call letters are
painted on the transmitter shack in black!

Translators have NO coverage requirements with regards to their signal
actually covering their COL.

Paul Walker
www.onairdj.com


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Kaimbridge M. GoldChild <
Kaimbridge@gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul Walker wrote,
>
>
> > Ive found googlemaps to be anywhere between 500 to 1000 feet off
> > when using exact co-ordinates.
> >
> > I once maped K04HL in Ord, NE when I lived there and google maps
> > putn it 500 feet off from where I knew it to be.
>
> I don't know if the coordinates were different then, but based on the
> current ones, did you map them using NAD-83:
>
>     http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=41.6000083&lon=-98.9337&z=18&m=h
>
> or NAD-27:
>
>     http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=41.6&lon=-98.9333333&z=18&m=h
>
> There looks like about a 31m/100ft difference:
>
>
>
> http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=41.6&lon=-98.9333333&z=19&l=0&m=m&gz=0;-989337000;416000000;3674;0;0;80
>
> Also, I think height can distort map plotting.
>
>
> > Why would Salem "losing" WESX have anythijng to do with where
> > the translator licenses itself?
>
> Well, because I was thinking that now Salem doesn't have its own station,
> forgetting about WMWM....Oh, hi Raccoon!  P=)
> But, as Scott just pointed out, translator COLs are pretty much
> meaningless——though IDing as the transmitter city is certainly more
> relevant, particularly in this case.
>
>
>     ~Kaimbridge~
>