Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Alabama 810 gains FM coverage with translator

Jacksonville's WCKA, known as Alabama 810, has been on the FM dial for a little while at 94.3 MHz.  According to FCC records, they've just completed an upgrade to the translator, and it's now kicking out a full 250 watts.  Judging by the coverage map, it's putting a good signal all the way up into Gadsden and down into most of Anniston as well.

Translators can't generally exceed the daytime coverage of the parent AM station, but that'll be no problem for WCKA, which enjoys a massive signal covering most of east Alabama during the day.  I listened from time to time to their classic country format while commuting to work in the Birmingham area and found the signal (and the music) to be pretty good.  

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