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106.5 Toledo
Re: 106.5 Toledo
There's a Spanish LPFM on 96.5 that is fairly active in community affairs, you know, like radio used to be, and their 100W covers most of the City of Toledo, originating from the old South end. Doesn't cover as well iHearts 250W translators, but does okay. They used to buy time on WCWA/WSPD before having their own LPFM station.
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
The signal is mostly static in Northwest Toledo. Same with the other LP'S, 97.7 and 106.1.WOHO wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 4:56 pmThere's a Spanish LPFM on 96.5 that is fairly active in community affairs, you know, like radio used to be, and their 100W covers most of the City of Toledo, originating from the old South end. Doesn't cover as well iHearts 250W translators, but does okay. They used to buy time on WCWA/WSPD before having their own LPFM station.
Re: 106.5 Toledo
106.1 is still waiting on a tower so they can increase power from 20 to 100watts. I get 97.7 pretty well in Lucas County, but disappears in Wood County
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
WFUR-FM in Grand Rapids was off the air for a couple weeks last year as a result of a similar change in ownership (that station now runs BBN programming off the bird 24/7).
Studio transmitter links, microwave links, etc. all need to be changed.
Studio transmitter links, microwave links, etc. all need to be changed.
Morgan Wallen is a piece of garbage.
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
It's been off the air for nearly 2 weeks now. It should be back up soon I assume.
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
Enjoy 106.5 The Lake from Cleveland in the meantime. ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Morgan Wallen is a piece of garbage.
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
Probably can only pick that up during tropo.
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
People in Toledo can hear WDTW (AM 1310) with a decent radio during the day.Heathcliff wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:00 pmI've thought for sometime that maybe a commercial Spanish language station, on say a translator ought to be given a shot. I'm thinking likely a regional Mexican format. Toledo has a decent sized LGBTQ community as well, that doesn't get acknowledged much of the time.
At night, forget it. It beams a narrow beam to the North, and the cacophony of many powerful stations completely buries it.
One wonders why WOHO didn't do what WDTW-AM did - foregoing the expensive 120 ground radials buried underground, and stringing six ground-plane radials about 6m above ground at every tower. (Not only saving on the construction cost, but assuring that the grounding system would be safe - no one would go to the effort of stealing about $40 of wire).
What really shocked me was the drivel in WOHO's numerous silent STAs. The last of which stated "now that the construction is underway".
In those days, I would drive by the CP site to see if there had been any progress.
Of course, none of that happened.
In my opinion, the owners told the FCC an obvious lie.
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
Simple explanation. They didn't want to pay the Dickey Bros anymore (the Dickey's had the Pickle Rd site up for sale for quite some time) the lease was not cheap, and 1470 was not worth the cost of new construction at another site.innate-in-you wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 8:05 pmPeople in Toledo can hear WDTW (AM 1310) with a decent radio during the day.Heathcliff wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:00 pmI've thought for sometime that maybe a commercial Spanish language station, on say a translator ought to be given a shot. I'm thinking likely a regional Mexican format. Toledo has a decent sized LGBTQ community as well, that doesn't get acknowledged much of the time.
At night, forget it. It beams a narrow beam to the North, and the cacophony of many powerful stations completely buries it.
One wonders why WOHO didn't do what WDTW-AM did - foregoing the expensive 120 ground radials buried underground, and stringing six ground-plane radials about 6m above ground at every tower. (Not only saving on the construction cost, but assuring that the grounding system would be safe - no one would go to the effort of stealing about $40 of wire).
What really shocked me was the drivel in WOHO's numerous silent STAs. The last of which stated "now that the construction is underway".
In those days, I would drive by the CP site to see if there had been any progress.
Of course, none of that happened.
In my opinion, the owners told the FCC an obvious lie.
The moral of the story? "Dickey Lew, before Lew can Dickey you."
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
Rumor has it, he was Dickeying a current member of WRQN's VT community of voices. I've also heard other rumors of other same sex hanky spanky going on. So Someone in the DICKey family was giving it to someone... or taking it. And it was not Lew or Lew Jr.Colonel Flagg wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 8:46 pmThe moral of the story? "Dickey Lew, before Lew can Dickey you."![]()
Re: 106.5 Toledo
La Grande 105.5innate-in-you wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 8:05 pmPeople in Toledo can hear WDTW (AM 1310) with a decent radio during the day.Heathcliff wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:00 pmI've thought for sometime that maybe a commercial Spanish language station, on say a translator ought to be given a shot. I'm thinking likely a regional Mexican format. Toledo has a decent sized LGBTQ community as well, that doesn't get acknowledged much of the time.
At night, forget it. It beams a narrow beam to the North, and the cacophony of many powerful stations completely buries it.
One wonders why WOHO didn't do what WDTW-AM did - foregoing the expensive 120 ground radials buried underground, and stringing six ground-plane radials about 6m above ground at every tower. (Not only saving on the construction cost, but assuring that the grounding system would be safe - no one would go to the effort of stealing about $40 of wire).
What really shocked me was the drivel in WOHO's numerous silent STAs. The last of which stated "now that the construction is underway".
In those days, I would drive by the CP site to see if there had been any progress.
Of course, none of that happened.
In my opinion, the owners told the FCC an obvious lie.
La Grande uno oh cinco punto cinco más música en toledo ¡La Grande!
WQQO Sylvania Toledo La Grande Uno Oh cinco punto cinco
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Re: 106.5 Toledo
I made a pilgrimage to the Pickle Road site last weekend, everything is gone but the tower bases and fencing. Innate makes a good point, the far SE 1470 tower (the one with the shit for ground) is(was) close enough to the edge of the property that elevated grounds would have been an improvement, they could have dropped a cargo container on the SE corner of the property by the ditch for the transmitter and STL and still sold 85% of their land to the City of Oregon and still kept just the one SE tower by pulling a "1310 special"?
Re: 106.5 Toledo
I might have asked before but what are the city of Oregon's plans for the land? Thanks for going out there, I was wondering if anything was left. So no more transmitter, shack or anything, wow.WOHO wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 10:01 amI made a pilgrimage to the Pickle Road site last weekend, everything is gone but the tower bases and fencing. Innate makes a good point, the far SE 1470 tower (the one with the shit for ground) is(was) close enough to the edge of the property that elevated grounds would have been an improvement, they could have dropped a cargo container on the SE corner of the property by the ditch for the transmitter and STL and still sold 85% of their land to the City of Oregon and still kept just the one SE tower by pulling a "1310 special"?