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Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

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Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by MWmetalhead » Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:01 pm

The Family Life Radio folks must've either paid off Townsquare or Townsquare simply doesn't give a f---.

Could not believe the amount of interference I heard @ 103.1 MHz from Lake Orion through Oxford on Lapeer Rd. earlier this afternoon.

WQUS was the dominant station in Oxford, but the Family Life Radio translator was cutting in enough to make the listening experience annoying. Remarkably, the WQUS transmitter site is just 18 miles from Oxford. Station always used to come in loudly & clearly in Oxford.

Also, is Cars 108 running at reduced power? Station was very listenable in the above region, but the signal wasn't nearly as rock solid as one would expect for a station running 50 kW from a TX site less than 25 miles away. Perhaps the terrain combined with 108's shortish tower are entirely the culprit.



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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by Deleted User 14888 » Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:12 pm

Did WFDF Possibly kick on their translator? Is that possible or the WUFL translator might have increase the signal, And Yes I used to enjoy WQUS before all this translator BS, What a shame.



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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by MWmetalhead » Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:23 pm

910's translator isn't on the air. The interference was entirely from the WUFL / Family Life Radio translator.



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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by syntheticexctasy » Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:46 pm

Just noticed w231cv 94.1 is live from the north edge of Pontiac now, with a Holly COL. absolutely no sign of WWDK on the car stereo anymore in Pontiac. Same terrible programming and amateurish audio chain.



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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by borderboy653659200 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:26 pm

Adam Levine likely has hot broads by the hundreds. That's why you think him a bag .



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Post by Deleted User 14888 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:28 pm

Hey Border Dude, What’s Up!



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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by borderboy653659200 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:32 pm

Not my weight,Oldies 84 ,as I'm down to 194 lb. or 88 kg. What's up with you ? Preparing for our ice storm tomorrow morning ?



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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by stopnswop2 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:33 pm

Adam Levine is not all that hot tbh


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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by borderboy653659200 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:36 pm

Oldies 84,you likely remember that George Harrison was ordered to pay $1,000,000 U.S. to the Chiffons for plagiarizing "He's So Fine" for Harrison's 1970 hit,"My Sweet Lord."



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Post by stopnswop2 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:37 pm

He came up with some BS excuse that it "might have been on his mind when writing it".

Suuure Georgie, suuure. LOL


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Post by Deleted User 14888 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:39 pm

You’re right Border Dude, Isn’t The Library closed now?



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Post by stopnswop2 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:40 pm

It's only 6 pm.
That's pretty early.

When I was working at the Novi library we closed at 9 pm


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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by CK-722 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 7:45 pm

WQUS has about the worst interference situation of any station in SE MI. The worst situation is the WOAP Owosso W276CZ Translator. There was nearly always the CBEF-1-FM Leamington repeater. Then theres the WUFL Translator W276DB near Yates. Then there's the CP for the WFDF Translator. Have I missed any? Oh there's WGDN-FM 103.1 in Gladwin. Have I missed any? Oh, CFHK London, ON.

The situation is made worse by all the short spaced adjacents, which make it difficult to upgrade to 6 kW. They don't protect it as far with 3 kW.

I made a plan that would replace all or nearly all the translators (and FM X-Band Model AM stations) with 1 kW/100 meter HAAT replacement STATIONS. The sticking point is that it would require 2 MHz of additional spectrum space.
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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by MWmetalhead » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:15 pm

The Yates (Rochester area) translator on 103.1 is by far the closest co-channel TX to WQUS.

W276DB doesn't have much of a null in the direction of WQUS, either.

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?c ... service=FX

I love the additional spectrum idea.



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Re: Interference @ 103.1 MHz in northern Oakland County

Post by CK-722 » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:20 pm

The terrain toward Flint and Burton from Owosso is a lot flatter than the terrain between Yates and Lapeer. I was in Romeo today and was hearing Yates on 103.1. The Buick loaner had a memory on 103.1. A lot of the employees live toward Imlay City though and listen near their homes. That started before the translator was on.

I think that the WDTW 1310 translator on 107.9 is seriously overmodulated, if not otherwise running hot. The other day WCRZ Cars 108 was coming in quite well. Today, I could barely null out the translator. This was on a Grundig S350 with a whip.

The large group owners like Townsquare, Cumulus, and iHeart should get behind my plan. Otherwise,, this interference will get much worse.


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