Posted by MattS on August 27, 2009 at 17:16:11:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Receiving 105.9 in Suffolk County posted by Steve Green on August 27, 2009 at 15:33:24:
There's a bit of mystery about the 91.7 translator that WSHU has in Ridge. It is 250 Watts, but HORIZONTAL ONLY, which means in-car reception is degraded.
Secondly, the FCC has 6 applications on file for 91.7 for FULL-POWER FMs, around Riverhead. One of the applicants is from WSHU, but if they don't win (and I think they will) then their 91.7 translator goes away. To me it looks like ACORN might get it, especially with the election registration help they gave to the President's campaign
The 91.7 translator (W219AB) has NO technical records available online at the FCC that I can find. It was, I believe, part of a settlement with WLIU, where WSHU got two 250 watt translators shoehorned in to compensate them for losing their bid for 91.3. The other is in Southampton 103.3)
Of course, they now have WSUF 89.9 in Noyack (transmitter in Greenport), so they have two networks in the Hamptons with mostly separate programming (no local studios for either, however)
The Monroe Board of Education's WMNR (Monroe, CT)
rebroadcasts WSHU's WSUF talk signal over its 105.7 translator in East Hampton but only at 10 watts, whereas it was originally licensed for 250 watts, according its most recent application at the FCC.
W289AX is call sign for 105.7
BTW, the Town of Monroe now runs WMNR, not the BoE.