WCNZ 1660 & WMYR 1410 "The Avenue"

[jmtillery]

Your mention of 1460 for West Naples is interesting. Just where is West Naples? Anything west of Naples tends to be a bit on the wet side..LOL. Of course 1460 did finally make it on the air a few years ago as WNPL.

I'm not exactly sure where West Naples is located unless a small stretch of land between downtown Naples and the Gulf may be considered West Naples. In all fairness, I may have misunderstood John to mean East Naples as the proposed COL for first service.

[HadYourPhil]

There is no such place as West Naples.
1510 was called WWWO when they were country.
1510 became 1480 in 1985. 1510 was a directional daytime-only facility with the towers in a parallelogram shape, and it had a good signal into Naples, much better than 1480 has ever had. With a 1480 in Arcadia and a 1490 in Immokalee, the Marco facility had a crummy signal from the start.

[jmtillery]

There is no such place as West Naples.

Then it was East Naples specified as the COL in the original application for 1460.

[HadYourPhil]

Which of course is now on as WNPL. Very directional south from the WNOG site just south of Immokalee Rd. Simulcasting with WINK 1200, which is the second visit of those call letters to 1200 from 1240.

[Bud50]

I got called into work in Mobile, AL at 1AM Sunday morning, 10/9/2011 and was tuning around.  I have always enjoyed DXing on the AM band and I found a "new one" on 1660.  Yes, there was some fading, but the signal was loud and clear here, better than the local staions!

I left a comment on their contact page, telling them how much I enjoyed the format.  I listened bothe ways, coming in and going home, and the signal stayed 'way up the whole time.  The signal path is across water from Marco Island, FL to Mobile, AL and there was a tropical low pushing this way, so I count that as helping the signal, as well.

I've found that when there are weather systems pushing this way and that, stations you don't normally hear suddenly appear.  I will continue to tune in and monitor their signal strength, but if the GMC Jimmy's radio had an "s meter" it would have been close to pinned that night....

Bud

[ai4i]

Is a station with 1480's signal worth having on the air?
As a stand alone, what are they worth?

[HadYourPhil]

All three (1410, 1480, 1660) are for sale at bargain-basement prices. Understandable as there is no cash flow. 1480 shouldn't even be on, if the five-year expanded-band rule is followed.

The power level for WMYR was posted incorrectly earlier. They are 5kw, DA-N. Of the three stations, their equipment is the newest.

[jmtillery]

All three (1410, 1480, 1660) are for sale at bargain-basement prices.

Do you know the asking price for all three? Please contact me off-list at jmt@jmtillery.com.

[radiosanchez]

Curious as to why 1480 and 1660 are no longer in Stereo.....

Stations sounded FM-like when they were, and even after the Stereo quit, they kept the pilot on for a while....Now, that isn't even on, and it's a shame since the format would sound awesome in Stereo.

[ai4i]

One of the shortcomings of the approved system for AM stereo is that it does not like asymetrical modulation. OK on mono radios, but on stereo ones, it shifts the balance to (I forgot which side), so if one wants to sound loud on those 99% of units out there, why have an off-center sound on the less than 1% stereo units?