99.1 Translator to be "Cleveland's New Rock Alternative 99X"?

[CleveFan]

The new station went on the air at Noon.  Sounds pretty good so far.  I'm surprised CC made the big move.

[jdc42]

hello cleveland,
 wow. thank you clear channel for 99x new rock alternative. never thought a alternative rock station would be on the fm airwaves again without having to have an HD radio. glad this station is not a fm signal of wtam 1100 am. i am not liking news/talk formats or talk radio or sports radio at all. i need to sports games that have a picture not just sound. sorry 92.3 the fan. i do not like you at all. cbs is the fault that 92.3 will not be listen too much in clevelnd. can some one tell me how strong the signal is in the area i used to live in? that would be where interstate 77 and interstate 490 meet now on a road map. thanks for helping guys.
 

[XCountry285]

How long til NYC gets a CC Alternative?

[DrC]

Heard about the station on a commercial spot aired during Alan Cox's show today. 

At around 4pm, the 99.1 signal was nonexistent near 271 and Mayfield - heard about four stations (including Fremont's 99.1 and a station in Kalamazoo) fighting each other.  I imagine this was the unfortunate symptom of tropo propagation- the new signal should cover that area easily in the absence of tropo. Once I hit 422, though, the new 99.1 came in loud and clear all the way to Aurora on my car radio, with only faint dropouts. 

Playlist sounds very much like 105.9 The X in Pittsburgh.  Heard a Black Keys song ans a few alt-gold standards like 'What It's Like' by Everlast.  Looking forward to seeing if they'll throw in some pre-Nevermind classic alternative like 92.3 used to...

[CleveFan]

I think the station is still broadcasting from this coverage map:

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W259BI&service=FX&status=L&hours=U

Hopefully, it will start improving to this map:

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W259BI&service=FX&status=C&hours=U

Speaking of The Alan Cox Show, co-host Erika Lauren is the female imaging voice for 99X.

[SonoSational18]

They're already on the Parma stick. What you hear is what you get.

[jdc42]

hello cleveland,
 99x is a station i have listen to for the past 5 hours now without going to another station and all i can say is wow and thank you clear channel. i know the station has only 250 watts.  will it make wncx 98.5 and wone 97.5 wonder if they will lose listeners to 99x ? i hope so. wonder what the summer radio ratings will look like? more competition makes radio stations better. that is the way it used to be in the 80's and early 90's. since 99x went on the air on 5/23/2012 i have heard some different in wmms now. i have not listen to wmms in awhile cause of the hot talk stuff or talk junk is what i call it. i heard about hair metal weekend and that made me come back to listen a little while. in the past hour on wmms 100.7 i have heard 2 new rock songs - older alternative rock songs from the 1990's  -  3 classic rock songs - 1 hair band song - patience by guns -n- roses. it is 1:31am and this has all happened in the past hour. is this normal for wmms 100.7 or did this start today cause of the new 99x? please let me know guys when you get the time and thanks. right now the song is epic by faith no more on wmms 100.7 fm. wow!!!     

[Play Freebird]

They're already on the Parma stick. What you hear is what you get.

The application to move to Parma (the WBNX-TV/WMJI site) shows an antenna pattern with 10 dB of suppression across an 80 degree arc centered northwest; in other words, power in that direction is not supposed to exceed 25 watts.  This reduction was deemed necessary to keep the interference contour from crossing the Canadian border.   

How does it actually cover in that direction?  Also, I wonder how it was possible to modify the specified ERI FM-100 (normally, a 'non-directional' antenna bay) to comply with that unusual envelope, which also pulls down to 40 watts towards the east and southeast.   At least it would be interesting to see what side of the tower it's mounted on, and how the parasites (if any) were configured.  Perhaps it doesn't actually make the full 250 watts in any direction.   

If anyone in the area is inclined to drive over and take a look, note that the CP application specified an antenna height of 780 ft (238 m) above ground, which would put it about 260 ft above the WMJI aux.

[HHH]

Reception is quite good in a lot of the close-in suburbs, but right downtown it chops up considerably.

Suspect that the low power has no real building penetration capability, which might explain why it is not a WTAM simulcast (office building/city penetration is the usual reason for an FM simulcast of an AM).

[dannykewl]

Sort of weak here at W 150/Puritas on a component stereo system, some hiss and/or multipath, have wire dipole antenna ground floor, and placement is critical. No meter on my tuner, but has a local/dx light, and it stays in dx no matter where the antenna is placed. No commercials so far in the last 15 or 20 minutes since I caught this thread and tuned in, and decent tunes as far as alt rock as far as I'm concerned, good new and older mix, but would rather hear the AAA that V1073 had. Maybe Franken FM for that if they don't go Spanish. Nice to hear of a LP station that's not religious or a translator for a change.