WKRD 101.7 SOLD

[BobOnTheJob]

Doesnt WIKI in Carrolton call itself "Froggy" as well,

Nope, but WKID 95.3 across the river in Vevay,IN does.

WIKI 95.3

WKID 95.9

Too many K' ans I's too close to each other.  I know there were some diary issues in the past.

THat's pretty sad on my part as I was the WIKI engineer for about 10 years!

Were you before or after the move from 100.1 to 95.3?

Late 90's>Late 2000's. Long after the move from 100.1.

I guess you followed Pete.  I assume the station have already move the studios to Madison and George Freeman had sold WIKI. 

I'm not sure who preceeded me but I did see some of Pete's business cards attached to some gear. I was already working with Marty Pieratt when he bought WIKI so I came along for the ride. The studio left downtown & moved to the hilltop and again moved to their second and current hilltop location during my era. Once Marty became uninvolved and WagonWheel took over, WIKI (along with co-owned WSCH Aurora,IN) became an engineering revolving door.

I worked there when the studios were at the old tower site (Mound Hill) Carrolton.  Pete did the switch from  100.1 to 95.3 and put in the stuff (and moved the Transmitter from Mound Hill) at the site you worked at.  The tower came from the scraped Nuclear Plant power plant just West of Madison.  Did they ever get antenna heaters or radomes.  They had some icing issues when I was there.

Apologies to the starter of this thread...it's moved frequencies and call signs, owners and transmitter sites! That's a nice tower, but as of 2 years ago, no radomes or deicers. The old Harris 2.5 transmitter is very forgiving of high VSWR though. When you worked at the old 100.1 site, did you work with a guy who had vision issues and lived at or very near the site? He gave me a tour of the old site in the 80's...his name escapes me. I think he was a ham radio operator.

[secondchoice]

I was there 91-95.  The person you are talking about was two ahead of me.

[KyDXIn]

Appreciate your insight.  I am no professional, just a big supporter of radio.  I am a fan.  A fan in their 40's that remembers being with his grandparents in my youth listening to WHAS in the barns and on the tractors and every morning for the farm report.   My grandparents used to listen to Metz and Elliott at nights, in the living room.... Forget TV unless it was a Saturday with golden girls or heehaw...lol. 

Big fan of local radio here too.  I even have a autographed picture of Barney Arnold! [People under 40 are saying, "Who??"]

[KyDXIn]

Listened to the new WVKY "Froggy" all the way here to Corydon this morning.

[Bengalsfan]

Listened to the new WVKY "Froggy" all the way here to Corydon this morning.

What 'cha think?

[KyDXIn]

Listened to the new WVKY "Froggy" all the way here to Corydon this morning.

What 'cha think?

Sounded nice, and will be tuning in again.

[BobOnTheJob]

I keep trying to hear it here, but with a 50KW blowtorch on 101.5 12 miles from me, I'm not having much luck

[KyDXIn]

Have they changed the antenna patterns since it was WKRD?  The signal was coming in loud and clear at Highlander Point on Hwy. 150 tonight--much better than 'KRD did.

[secondchoice]

I can not find any construction permit.  I do miss some CPs sometimes so I could be wrong.  Unless they were "messed up" and now "getting legal" there is no "legal" way to change a station's pattern without at least some kind of STA or CP from the FCC.  The atmosphere was been "tropo" friendly in GA, AL and MS, the last couple of days for both AM and FM.  AM 1000 Chicago and 1010 Canada both stopped scan on my car radio most of the afternoon Thursday.  Some of the Atlanta FMs are getting interfered with too.  This effect might be more widespread than I though.  I bet this weekend's predicted storms will put a stop to the afternoon DXing.

[BobOnTheJob]

Unless they were "messed up" and now "getting legal" there is no "legal" way to change a station's pattern without at least some kind of STA or CP from the FCC. 

Sure there is and every FM station is doing it whether they want to or not. There is no such thing as an FM antenna that sends a signal out precisely the same in all directions, although expensive panel antennas can come close. The typical FM antenna mounted on a tower has nulls of at least 10db (vertical polarity) in the direction "behind" the antenna. That -10db is distributed into other directions resulting in a boost of typically 2-3db. So taking the antenna and moving it to the most advantageous mounting position can take the signal of a 6000 watt station and raise it to 10000 watts or more in a desired direction while dropping it to 600 watts or less in a less desired direction. One would think that Clear Channel would already have had it properly mounted to maximize coverage toward Louisville. Whether or not the new owners changed it, I can't say. There's nothing shady or illegal about this technique...it's no more unethical than mounting the security light in your back yard so as to illuminate the desired portion of your property.