Are Westside Community Radio 89.6FM really only using 7 watts??

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Are Westside Community Radio 89.6FM really only using 7 watts??

Post by teckniqs » Sun Oct 20, 2024 2:58 pm

I find this very hard to believe as I can pick this up loud and clear on slightly raised ground (60m ASL) down on the West Sussex south coast and someone else I know has heard it near Southampton, but everywhere I've checked seems to show it as only 7 watts! :shock:

.....This can't be right surely?? They must mean 70w
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Re: Are Westside Community Radio 89.6FM really only using 7 watts??

Post by Nick_G » Sun Nov 10, 2024 10:58 am

According to FMLIST it is 50 watts vertical.

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Re: Are Westside Community Radio 89.6FM really only using 7 watts??

Post by teckniqs » Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:07 pm

Nick_G wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 10:58 am According to FMLIST it is 50 watts vertical.
Well that makes a lot more sense but what site does it say it's coming from on there? ....I know that they moved to that tower block in recent years as it used to come from a lower site around there before. Does FMLIST say the same site name (tower block) ?

....And are you getting it in Whitchurch?

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Re: Are Westside Community Radio 89.6FM really only using 7 watts??

Post by Nick_G » Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:51 pm

teckniqs wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:07 pm
Nick_G wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 10:58 am According to FMLIST it is 50 watts vertical.
Well that makes a lot more sense but what site does it say it's coming from on there? ....I know that they moved to that tower block in recent years as it used to come from a lower site around there before. Does FMLIST say the same site name (tower block) ?

....And are you getting it in Whitchurch?
FMLIST has Southall/Rutherford Tower as the tx site. I don't get it here unless there is a tropo lift that enhances signals from London.

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Re: Are Westside Community Radio 89.6FM really only using 7 watts??

Post by teckniqs » Sun Nov 10, 2024 3:05 pm

OK well that makes a lot more sense then as it's clearly not only pushing seven watts.

....89.6 has often been heard in Eastleigh area using a TEF6686 hand portable with it's standard telescopic vertical antenna.
I'm surprised you can only get it under enhanced conditions when it gets to Reading reasonably well, but maybe you're still using the horizontal Triax which has a massive disadvantage with V polarisation signals. :tup

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