``WGTO GOING HIGH POWER

[loneagle49085]

Great news !!! To those who haven't yet heard, WGTO started broadcasting on FM 101.1. Sounds fantastic!!! Now I can listen to oldies at night!!

[loneagle49085]

Well, my comment of sounds fantastic only applied while I was in Dowagiac. Five miles out of town @ M152 the signal started to fade. By the time I hit the the hills around Sister Lakes, the signal was fluttering with another station in the background. WGTO FM must be low power. Anybody else care to comment?

[WGTO]

You are correct the  ERP is 250 watts. WGTO FM is actually W266BS translator. Coverage to the East is fanstatic   all the way east of Jones. Coverage to the west  poor due to conflict with WKQX Chicago. Present location is interim. Plans are already underway to move to higher location more centrally located in population center...   someplace closer to Niles. Antenna is also directional.  Regulations allow multiple translators to be used by AM stations so if revenue picks up we can purchase yet another translator for Niles South Bend...   Right now we are concentrating on making the power we have sound as good as it can. 
The intended area of coverage is Cass  County..  Van Buren is spotty. But since the  problem is Co- Channel from Chicago there are places where it booms in due to obstructions from Chicago. So its rather weird. There are places in South Bend where its full quieting but places in Dowagiac where its a bit fuzzy, It can also be heard well in parts of Three Rivers   but again that is due to lack of interference from other stations  to the East.

Larry Langford OWNER

[WGTO]

Sorry to report night power will NEVER go up. Power increase only possible during day. In fact night power will fall a bit. Another reason we are putting in the FM translator on 101.1