W288DD now seems to be translating WINZ.
And what frequency is that?
Channel 288.
"In the United States, frequency-modulated broadcasting stations operate in a frequency band extending from 87.8 MHz to 108.0 MHz, for a total of 20.2 MHz. It is divided into 101 channels, each 0.2 MHz wide, designated "channel 200" through "channel 300." In actual practice, no one except the FCC uses these channel numbers; the frequencies are used instead. "
Umm... ? I said frequency, not channel number. I wouldn't know where Channel 288 is.
Translators are identified by the channel number they are on and two random letters. 288 is 105.5.
I love your reply.Channel 288.
Just for future reference, the channels always advance in numerical order, so ch. 288 will always lie between channels 287 and 289.I wouldn't know where Channel 288 is.
Just for future reference, the channels always advance in numerical order, so ch. 288 will always lie between channels 287 and 289.
Just for future reference, the channels always advance in numerical order, so ch. 288 will always lie between channels 287 and 289.
Wikipedia is our friend.I only know frequencies, not channel numbers like the majority of Americans.
So down there, instead of channel 288 being between channels 287 and 289, channel 13 would be between 14 and 12, like water going down a drain in the southern hemisphere.Except in the Southern Hemisphere, where they are in reverse order.
I guess WINZ survives because nothing else is there to take it's place except brokered/religious with English language programming
Well, that's something I didn't know. There can be no commercial American FM stations below 92.1. But you can have a translator at 91.7 airing commercial programming? (I'm not counting what are called "Franken FMs," using the audio from analog Channel 6 to create a commercial FM station at 87.7.)
According to radio-locator.com, the three translators (91.7, 94.5 and 105.5) are supposed to rebroadcast WZTU 94.9. But WZTU runs 98,000 watts from 1007 feet above average terrain, so it really doesn't need that help. 940 WINZ is an AM Sports station that runs 50,000 watts non-directional by day, audible in Fort Myers and down into the Florida Keys, but must reduce to 10,000 watts directional at night. (Radio-Locator doesn't mention any STA allowing 25,000 watts at night.) So I suppose iHeart figured WINZ needs those translators more than WZTU.
Reach-FM was on WZTU-HD2, but Radio-Locator's info is likely out of date, the stations translate WINZ.
If someone has an HD receiver, please check to see if WINZ is on WZTU-HD2.
Reach-FM is chaptered, but they might have a successor organization.
A translator on channel 219 cannot run commercial programming.