New antenna for WVLG
 

Who here on TOTV is a broadcast communications expert and knowledgeable of FCC applications?

Villages Communications Inc. filed an application with the FCC to register a new antenna. The latitude/longitude is east of the turnpike, about a mile southeast of the Okahumpka Service Plaza. Application: ASR Application A1116609

Can a knowledgeable person identify what type of antenna - AM, FM, whatever?

Does anyone know the location of the existing antenna for WVLG-AM?

Why don't you just send a message to the applicant/owner and ask her?

cindy.bailey@thevillagesmedia.com

Very close to Cokesbury Dr. in Caroline. You can see it well from the Caroline pool & postal.:ho:

Actually it's alongside of the FL turnpike. The tower you mention is the existing one. Just click on the "map application" link on top of the FCC page, select "satellite view" and it will show you the location.
Probably just the "southern" tower to cover all the newly built areas.

Does anyone know what that big shiny tower (monopole) with nothing on it (last time I looked) over on Buena Vista north of 466A is ? It's NOT on T.V. property.



73's

They only are licensed for AM. This is probably an additional antenna/transmitter to increase coverage to the new areas as they are limited to less than a kilowatt of power output.

This was reported to be a Verizon cell tower, and it is now occupied with about 6 or 8 cellular antennas, not sure if it is operational yet.

Excellent. I assumed that since it was not on TV property it was a cell tower. [emoji3]. Maybe the owners will rent out space to other providers as well. Big money in tower rental. Have a friend in NJ doing that. Better coverage is needed here. I had to dump att when we moved here after probably 25 years through all it's various name incarnations to VZW because there was ZERO signal in and around my home.

It IS on TV property, the water treatment plant and fire station.

AT&T rep told me it would be used by the 4 major cell providers when it is fully commissioned and operational.

Don

Hmmmm. Interesting and surprised. I thought I read in the "other" online "news" service it was not. I'll have to look again.


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Ahhh, I looked again and it says "private land" which was what confused me then said "owned by The Villages of Sumter Inc." Just remembered the "private land" part. Yet it seemed to have been a county thing:

I already did that. She forwarded it to her boss, who replied that I should refer to the application - the same application referred to in my original post.

It appears WVLG is planning to also broadcast on 102.7 FM at 250 watts. This may give them better coverage in the new villages. The details are depicted below in the application to the FCC.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_...um=1&exhcnum=1

Oh I am so glad that they will be on FM, I need to press about 3 buttons to get from FM to at AM band and then to the correct channel, this will be so much easier.

Just an fyi, we have VZ and have always had a problem keeping a connection with in our Lanai.....calls usually dropped. Just upgraded to the iPhone XS and the guy said that wouldn't happen anymore. Guess what, it doesn't happen anymore.

And FM sounds soooo much better...

Remember when FM had no commercials? Ahhhhh

WVLG is going to put up a translator antenna to rebroadcast 640 am on a very tiny small coverage fm signal......as you know they are streaming for the last 4 months but are not talking about it on air wonder why

Good point - I wonder why WVLG announcers aren't mentioning that they are now streaming on the internet?

Very often with FM towers you'll see one or more rings about a foot in diameter at or near the top. That's the actual antenna, the rest of the structure is the mast. In AM, depending on where the antenna is fed its signal, the height of the tower is in a mathematical relationship with the frequency it's transmitting and the entire structure radiates the signal. So, if this tower is about the same height as the original and has no loop antennas attached, it's AM.

wvlg to fm is on hold the station manager aka the owners girlfriend has no clue

Here is the link to the FCC authorization to mount the FM antenna oi the WVLG tower.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/...es/1775945.pdf

I wrote to the media group that filed that form, a Christian broadcasting company that is Z88.3 and asked if this new equipment was for rebroadcast of the WVLG signal or for their Christian programming.

Answer "We will be continuing broadcasting Z88.3 FM from the tower."

They really didn't answer your question, but there can be multiple broadcasters renting space on an existing towers.

A friend of mine in Springfield NJ owns commercial properties and built a 150' tower at one of them on the busiest road in NJ which he rents space to 2 cell carriers, 2 low power broadcast stations, 3 ham radio repeaters (free of charge), a tow company, Audi dealership and the local police and fire dept. BIG BIG BUCKS to be made. The equipment room looks like the space station. This tower can be multi-use.

Yes they did answer my question. Z88 does not own the tower as your friend does. They only own a single license for a single frequency to be used for broadcasting. They can only broadcast one signal. Either that signal would be WVLG's AM signal sent over FM, or it would be Z88's Christian programming. They answered the question.

New antenna for WVLG
 

Sorry, I guess I misunderstood. I thought you specifically asked them if WVLJ would be broadcasting from that tower and they simply replied that THEY would continue to broadcast but did not directly answer if another station would share the tower with another transmitter.

In my previous post I attached the FCC grant letter issued 2/7/18 which authorized the move of translator W274BR, owned by CENTRAL FLORIDA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC. to move to WVLG's tower and re-transmit its signal on 102.7 FM. I don't know how they can do anything other than what the FCC authorized unless they go back to the FCC. WVLG must have a deal with the owner of the license to make this move.

I guess we will have to wait to see what happens.