WAMZ plans downgrade

[greg.hahn]

WAMZ has filed an application to move from it's present site in Northern Bullitt County, to the site on Tucker Station road, where 790, 98.9, and 100.5 are all located.

See here

The application proposes remaining at 100KW ERP,  but lowering the antenna height from 672 feet to 514 feet HAAT. That's a huge downgrade.

Is that site on the east end that much better than the one in Bullitt county? Or is about selling some real estate and making some money?

[radiorob2.0]

WAMZ has filed an application to move from it's present site in Northern Bullitt County, to the site on Tucker Station road, where 790, 98.9, and 100.5 are all located.

See here

The application proposes remaining at 100KW ERP,  but lowering the antenna height from 672 feet to 514 feet HAAT. That's a huge downgrade.

Is that site on the east end that much better than the one in Bullitt county? Or is about selling some real estate and making some money?

There was a CP a few years back that would have put WAMZ on the WHAS tower but that expired.

[greg.hahn]

WAMZ has filed an application to move from it's present site in Northern Bullitt County, to the site on Tucker Station road, where 790, 98.9, and 100.5 are all located.

See here

The application proposes remaining at 100KW ERP,  but lowering the antenna height from 672 feet to 514 feet HAAT. That's a huge downgrade.

Is that site on the east end that much better than the one in Bullitt county? Or is about selling some real estate and making some money?

There was a CP a few years back that would have put WAMZ on the WHAS tower but that expired.

True. But the WHAS tower is 663' tall. That CP wasn't much of a downgrade, if any. This is.

[Bengalsfan]

So they are putting all their eggs in one basket so if anything ever happens at that site, they will have four stations off instead of just one.  I would think the Brooks site to be more valuable than 790's.

[KyDXIn]

Wasn't the 98.9 signal downgraded with the move to Prospect? 

[BobOnTheJob]

Wasn't the 98.9 signal downgraded with the move to Prospect? 

Only if you consider a Class B to Class C2 a downgrade. Same power and height parameters, but the B is protected to the 54dbu contour whereas I believe the C2 only gets protection to the 60dbu. In the local area where the population lives, I'd expect it was--in practical terms--an upgrade.

[oxford777]

So they are putting all their eggs in one basket so if anything ever happens at that site, they will have four stations off instead of just one.  I would think the Brooks site to be more valuable than 790's.

There was a discussion a few pages back about 'AMZ installing a new antenna that might have been aimed (no pun) at addressing the problem of them disappearing just east of the Highlands. Maybe that didn't work. So maybe now they're trading Glendale for Grinstead Drive. This CP probably isn't to improve their signal to the east, though that would happen.