just tuned in to warm radio 590am. or tried too..how long have they been off the air? i havent tuned them in for a while.
just tuned in to warm radio 590am. or tried too..how long have they been off the air? i havent tuned them in for a while.
just tuned in to warm radio 590am. or tried too..how long have they been off the air? i havent tuned them in for a while.
Question: can WARM be licensed to run at lower power, say 2.5k day/1 k night with a far less critical pattern? I'd guess not.
@ Just Past Buffalo:
Cumeless, trying to keep pace with the Jones's and the Mays's, got caught up in this feeding frenzy, as though they bought tickets to the Last Supper off some scalper. Who pointed a gun at their heads and forced them into buying WARM?
What would the going price be for a big-power market jalopy -- 'needs some work' -- on a nice AM dial spot in Scranton in 2015? Is my guess at $150,000 too high or too low?
I looked at the data on WARM in FCC Query, and the station has a fairly tight pattern using 5 towers both day and night. It's pushed up pretty tight against the 590 in Albany NY, just 125 miles away to the NE. Non directional for 590 at Scranton doesn't appear to be an option even at 250 watts.
I'dsay odds are at least 50/50 that WARM will go cold, dark, deleted.[/its already cold, dark, and deleted, and yet in phase 2 of the arbitron, its got a .7 showing..thats amazing...
Well, according to some posts and filings, it appears the new WARM will be back. It will have less power, and I doubt it will have a decent signal in the metro. I'm shocked Cumulus is making an effort.
Before reading the latest, from K2A, which makes this sort of moot now, I'd had a question about the use of longwire(s) as a means or broadcast. Are such things in use anymore? Would it be legal?
While tower repairs were ongoing, the station began broadcasting for a while from a longwire stretched diagonally, across the roof. Of course, it couldn't be the most efficient signal. The station was on 540! I believe a full-wave antenna for 540 would have to be like 1600 feet. And the roof wasn't that big. And WLIX's actual tower certainly wasn't 1600 feet high.
But, as I asked: Are longwires still used for AM or Short Wave broadcast anywhere? And if they are, how efficient are they?
Thanks there, KA2.
Word was that the electric bill every month to plug in WARM's five towers was $2000, give or take the occasional spool of copper wire from Home Depot. Is the proposed new 'light bill' going to decrease by enough to make it any more financially palatable?