``WGTO GOING HIGH POWER

[WGTO]

Just an update  WGTO 910 AM Cassopolis will have its new DA and Transmitter in place by late summer. WGTO has CP for 5.7 kw with a new pattern that is tighter towrd wfdf but much more open to South Bend and Benton Harbor.. Puts 2 mil over South bend  half mil over Michigan city. Currently waiting for phasor from kintronic

[Sam Lit]

High power? Are you serious? Effectively you're a daytimer, that's taking huge sky wave hits hours after sunrise and hours before sundown. It appears, the only real thing you're gaining for all practical purposes is a marginally listenable grade signal in some key Michigan farmland during limited daylight hours. And while you're trying to or by the time you get the thing proofed, and WFDF is going to be right up your tookus, it'll be winter, at best and that means 7:15am- 4:30pm, or 8:30- 3:00 without skywave. And while you're fiddling with your daytimer power increase, you managed a nightime decrease, while WFDF is blowtourching you with a nighttime power increase. That's really genius. So much for strategic investments.

[audiophile.]

Just an update  WGTO 910 AM Cassopolis will have its new DA and Transmitter in place by late summer. WGTO has CP for 5.7 kw with a new pattern that is tighter towrd wfdf but much more open to South Bend and Benton Harbor.. Puts 2 mil over South bend  half mil over Michigan city. Currently waiting for phasor from kintronic

Congrats!

[WGTO]

Sam Lite is such a smart person but he fails to realize that by going to 5.7 kw WGTO puts a much bigger 2mv footprint which makes it eligible to use an FM translator over the South Bend Metro... now who's crazy?

[redneckriviera]

Sam Lite is such a smart person but he fails to realize that by going to 5.7 kw WGTO puts a much bigger 2mv footprint which makes it eligible to use an FM translator over the South Bend Metro... now who's crazy?

Better have that SOB in your back pocket--it has to be an existing translator or an unexpired CP. They're not going to let you go fishing for a new one to stick in SB.

FWIW, your post caught my eye because in my miss-spent youth I spent several years as a jock with the original WGTO (now Orlando's WFLF) down in Central Florida---50-kw at 540 kHz. Now THAT's "high power!"

[WGTO]

yep wish we had the 50kw blowtorch of the original WGTO.... and yes we do have a couple of translators in the back pocket....we will put on one in our backyard in a couple of months    we have the right to get the South Bend translator but cannot use it till the 6kw upgrade is done.the old 2 mill contour is too short... that will not be this year. Had to fork over too much cash for the backyard translator so we will work on the power boost next year.... better fm now and high power later dontcha know!!!!

[Tom Wells]

I am still able to listen to WGTO in my car in Chicago and northern suburbs.
Along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago the WLS iboc hiss is quite diminished in places, and the conductivity of Lake Michigan makes WGTO sound like a local. Before the ibocle of HD, 'GTO was strong and clear. I can't wait to see how approx 6X power will sound over here.
By the way, WGTO really suffers in most areas from WLS iboc, so I sure hope the 6kw is helpful.

[radioman148]

I am still able to listen to WGTO in my car in Chicago and northern suburbs.
Along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago the WLS iboc hiss is quite diminished in places, and the conductivity of Lake Michigan makes WGTO sound like a local. Before the ibocle of HD, 'GTO was strong and clear. I can't wait to see how approx 6X power will sound over here.
By the way, WGTO really suffers in most areas from WLS iboc, so I sure hope the 6kw is helpful.

Same here. I live in the northern Chicago suburbs and hear WGTO fairly well around the shores of Lake Michigan.
I'll be looking forward to the increase in power.

[dwilkeson]

Congratulations to you and your staff. I love AM and it's great to see someone willing to invest their time and money into a station.

[loneagle49085]

I'm local WGTO in SW MI. Have they actually gone to "full power" at night yet? I still can't pick them up after dusk beyond 5 miles from Dowagiac. Exactly where is the transmitter/tower site?