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WBOW-FM 102.7 WBOW-FM is a Class B FM station, authorized at 50,000 watts ERP at 500 feet. However, WBOW's tower on Oregon Church Road southwest of Terre Haute is nearly 700 feet tall, so our actual power output is reduced to about 28,000 watts. The transmitter is a BE 20 kw transmitter with a 50 watt exciter. The signal is microwaved from our studios in downtown Terre Haute to the transmitter site with a 10 watt Bext analog transmitter, using Scala Paraflector antennas at each end. The STL hop is about 12 miles; the sending dish is up 100 feet, the receiving dish is up about 200 feet. WBOW-FM processess its audio with an Optimod 8200. The Broadcast system is a Scotts System. Our studio for B-102.7 includes a LPB 12L control board, Comrex digital on-air phone system, voice tracking softwear, Shure mics and a Symetrex mic processor. Our engineer is Kevin Berlen. WBOW AM 1300 The WBOW transmitter is a BE 500T installed in 1995 in the elevated building in the Wabash River bottoms, across the Cherry St. Bridge. The building was put up in 1958, but the tower was replaced in 2004. WBOW AM shares the studio with WSDX AM, both broadcasting as ESPN Sports Radio. WBOW is also streamed to the internet through a link on the station's web site, www.espnsportsradio.com.
WAXI 104.9 TRANSMITTERS WAXI-FM in Rockville is located 5 miles south of the city of Rockville on US 41. WAXI uses a Harris 1kw transmitter installed in 1978, and an ERI 3-bay antenna on top of a 440 foot tower. It uses an Optimod 2200 for stereo generation and processing. We installed a new Nicom 30 watt exciter in March, 2001. We use an Armstrong STL transmitter/receiver for our microwave link between the studio in Terre Haute and the transmitter. The Scala Paraflector antenna is horizontally polarized, and is up 350 feet at the receive end, 120 feet at the send end. WAXI has 4500 watts effective radiated power. STUDIO WAXI's building south of Rockville is now a transmitter site only. Our main studio is at 1301 Ohio Street in Terre Haute. It contains a Dynamax 8RL console, 2 Shure SM 7 mics, a Symetrix mic processor, 2 CD players, a Sony mini disk recorder, a production computer with Cool Edit Pro, a digital phone hybrid. WAXI's programming is run through a Scotts automation system. For additional questions about our technical plant, e-mail us at WAXI. HOW TO RECEIVE STATIONS BETTER: We get lots of calls about reception, especially from our Terre Haute listeners. Well, the WAXI tower is about 5 miles south of Rockville on US 41, about 15 miles north of Terre Haute. WAXI has 4500 watts, not 50,000 watts, so while our range is pretty good, about 40 miles in most directions, one can experience "multipath" distortion in parts of Terre Haute...that's where the signal bounces off buildings and other obstructions. It is also difficult to get WAXI inside commercial buildings. The answer to better reception is always a better receiving antenna. Make sure you have the whip up, if your radio has one. Or better yet, hook it up to an outside TV or FM antenna. Many radios simply use the line cord as an antenna and this is not adequate. If you can get your radio close to a window, this may help a lot. And those $10 clock radios just won't cut it. We have a Bose Acoustic Wave radio in our office and it brings in WAXI very well. (Yeah, I know, they're $350!) Boston Acoustics has just come out with a new model for $160 that's getting rave reviews. And Cambridge Soundworks has a new one out for $250 that is outstanding.
WSDM 92.7 The WSDM Transmitter is a Harris 3.5 installed in early 1997 in a new building on White Rock Road in Brazil. The antenna is a 4 bay ERI Rototiller , installed in 2005 on the 300 foot tower. The WSDM studio was fully re-done in 2006 utilizing a Dynamax 12L control board, digital phone hybrid, 2 high-quality microphones and a symetrex mic processor, along with a computer to do recording. The signal is microwaved to Brazil through an Optimod 2200 and Mosley studio-transmitter link system. WSDX AM 1130 WSDX's transmitter is a BE 500T, also housed in the Brazil transmitter building. The studio in Terre Haute is shared with WBOW AM 1300, utilizing a Dynamax 12R control board, Gentner digital phone system, plus a microphone for the control board operator and 4 microphones for in-studio guests. The signal gets to Brazil from Terre Haute via the sub-carrier of the WSDM STL system.
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