FM Database

A guide to listings

The following listings were from the 88.1MHz page:

Harvest, AL          WAYH        3.50    204   34°49' 8"N  86°44'19"W
FM-APP   Way FM relig. chr
WAYH is licensed to Harvest, Alabama. The transmitter (and studios, and offices) may be elsewhere. The station must provide a strong ("city-grade") signal across all of Harvest, and must maintain a "public file" within that city.

WAYH is authorized for 3.5 kilowatts effective radiated power, circular polarization. Its antenna is authorized to be installed at 204 meters above average terrain. The tower is located at 34-49-08N, 86-44-19W.

This listing is for the main transmitter of a full-license FM station. Other possibilities:

  • FS: Backup transmitters.
  • FX: Translators, stations which rebroadcast the signals of a main transmitter.
  • FL: Low-power FM stations. Low power, in this case, means a different type of license, in a legal sense. Some full-license stations may have less power than some "low-power" operations.
  • FB: FM boosters. These are translators which operate on the same frequency as the main transmitter.

    • This record is for an application. If call letters appear, then it must be an application to change the facilities of an existing station. (and since this record is the only one on 88.1 for WAYH, it must mean WAYH wishes to move from some other frequency to 88.1.) If the call letters are a number, like "970430AAI", then this is an application for a new station. Sometimes more than one record will appear with the same numeric calls; this means someone has amended their new-station application.

    WAYH is believed to carry a religious popular music format from the Way FM network.

    Hueytown, AL         971001MC    2.00v   109   33°24'52"N  87° 1'12"W
FM-APP   AFR relig./rt. talk
    971001MC is an application for a new station in Hueytown, Alabama. 2.00v means the station will have vertical polarization only. Other possibilities:
  • h: Horizontal polarization only.
  • h+: Both horizontal and vertical, but with more power in the horizontal plane.
  • v+: Both horizontal and vertical, with more power in the vertical plane.
  • no letter at all: Circular polarization - both horizontal and vertical, and with equal powers.

    • Click on the call letters to call up a map of the station's transmitter location.

    W9WI.com
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    Last update: 10-2-2004
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