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The station began as WQIS "Q-89" in 1985 when WQIS moved from 1260 kHz to occupy the present transmitter tower, in Moselle, Mississippi; once occupied by sister station WNSL-FM. Q-89 was a daytime only R&B station serving Laurel and Hattiesburg; the station changed the format to easy listening and became "Kiss 890" in the 1990s.
Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew of the Kriegsmarine in northern Labrador, Dominion of Newfoundland, in October 1943. Installing the equipment for the station was the only known armed German military operation on land in North America (outside of Greenland) during ...
In November 1959, the station signed on the air. [3] Its first call sign was WRED and it was the FM sister station to an AM station with the WHOT call letters. The two stations were owned by Myron Jones. FM 101.1 later had an album rock format in the late-1970s under the branding "The Wizzard", which at the time used the call sign WSRD.
The present weather sensor (PWS) is a component of an automatic weather station that detects the presence of hydrometeors and determines their type (rain, snow, drizzle, etc.) and intensity. It works on a principle similar to a bistatic radar , noting the passage of droplets, or flakes, between a transmitter and a sensor.
The FCC granted this station a construction permit on January 18, 2007, to upgrade its signal to 6,000 watts of effective radiated power, lower its antenna to 98 meters (322 feet) in height above average terrain, and relocate the transmitter site southeast to 31°21'28"N, 87°07'40"W. [12] This construction permit is scheduled to expire on January 18, 2010.
WXTG-FM (102.1 MHz, "Streetz 87.7 & 102.1") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Virginia Beach, Virginia, and serving the Southside of Hampton Roads. It is owned and operated by Davis Media, LLC. [2] WXTG-FM airs an urban contemporary radio format. The transmitter for WXTG-FM is off Elbow Road in Chesapeake, Virginia. [3]
The two stations share studios on 37th Street in northeast Wichita; KSCW-DT's transmitter is located in rural northeastern Reno County (east of Hutchinson). KSCW-DT also operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 33 (its previous analog signal allotment) from a transmitter in North Wichita, just north of the station's studio facility.
WQDR-FM (94.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Raleigh, North Carolina, broadcasting to the Research Triangle. "94.7 QDR" presents a country music radio format and is owned by the Curtis Media Group. [2] [3] WQDR-FM's studios and offices are on Highwoods Boulevard in Raleigh. [4] The station's transmitter is off Business Route 70 in Garner ...