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Why did WJRZ 100.1 have a translator on 107.9 Manahawkin at one point?

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WJRZ wipes out 99.9 and 100.3 in HD within a 10 mile radius. The only reasoning I can come up with is nearby WBHX 99.7 or WWFG 99.9 from Ocean City, MD bleeding onto 100.1 but the transmitter for WJRZ was literally in the next town.
 
The 107.9 translator W300AO is for the HD2 of WJRZ. The 100.5 translator in Toms River used to be on 100.7 and was W264AM. It moved to 100.5 a few years ago and became W263DA. It was used to improve building penetration in Toms River.
 
A long time ago, like 20 years or so WJRZ had 2 simulcasts along with its main signal, one on 100.7 in Toms River: (W264AM, now 100.5 W263DA) and also 107.9 from a tower outside their studio on Beach Blvd in Manahawkin. (W300AO - Now relaying WRAT for the same area). Not sure why either of them were needed when 100.1 has a strong signal in most of Ocean County, other than, as mentioned, better building penetration in downtown Toms River, and perhaps Manahawkin. They are better off relaying their sister station (WRAT), just like WJLK and WOBM recently started doing on 96.7 (Monmouth) and 104.1 (Ocean).
 
KyleAndMelissa22 said:
A long time ago, like 20 years or so WJRZ had 2 simulcasts along with its main signal, one on 100.7 in Toms River: (W264AM, now 100.5 W263DA) and also 107.9 from a tower outside their studio on Beach Blvd in Manahawkin. (W300AO - Now relaying WRAT for the same area). Not sure why either of them were needed when 100.1 has a strong signal in most of Ocean County, other than, as mentioned, better building penetration in downtown Toms River, and perhaps Manahawkin. They are better off relaying their sister station (WRAT), just like WJLK and WOBM recently started doing on 96.7 (Monmouth) and 104.1 (Ocean).
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A number of stations seem to have taken translators just so a competitor would not have them..
 
teaneck said:
The story I heard so many years ago was that in the summer then WKHI 99.9 Ocean City would blast up the coast so loud it would interfere with the 100.1 signal on certain consumer radios.
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I've heard a similar story on one of the threads. It wouldn't make sense to put a translator on 107.9 just for tropo conditions, as well as a station like WEBE interfering during tropo.
 
When I grew up in Toms River 20+ years ago, 107.9 was always a blank channel, no sign of WEBE or the Manahawkin Translator there. Usually travelling around the area north WKRF was the usual catch into Somerset County, while WEBE was usually along the parkway but only above the Driscoll Bridge.

I guess now there is the Lakewood LP (WMDI) to dominate in Northern Ocean County now.
 
KyleAndMelissa22 said:
When I grew up in Toms River 20+ years ago, 107.9 was always a blank channel, no sign of WEBE or the Manahawkin Translator there. Usually travelling around the area north WKRF was the usual catch into Somerset County, while WEBE was usually along the parkway but only above the Driscoll Bridge.

I guess now there is the Lakewood LP (WMDI) to dominate in Northern Ocean County now.
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No WEBE during tropo? I know Hartford, even Boston stations boom into the Jersey Shore during tropo
 
From the Central Jersey Shore,
common tropo catches to the north were:

WALK 97.5
WKCI 101.3
WBAB 102.3
WBAZ 102.5
WBLI 106.1

A few years ago I caught
99.9 WEZN (CT) & WQRC (Cape Cod MA)
from the Perth Amboy area.

Before Thunder 106's Ocean County Signal Signed on, another Common Tropo Catch was 106.5 WWMX in Baltimore...And Also to the South was 104.7 WQHQ & 103.3 WESR, as well as WCXL 104.1
 
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