FM Technical Profile: WQSB
- Station Name:
- -
- Frequency:
- 105.1
- Format:
- Mainstream
Country
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
[bird's
eye] [street
view] Several miles east of Mountainboro, east of Leeth Gap
Cutoff Road, on the south side of John L Gap Road.
- Power (ERP):
- 2.7 kW
- Antenna:
- Directional
- Antenna HAAT:
- 1,001 feet
- Other
Information:
- 60 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC.
- More
Information:
- [FCC]
- [FCCdata]
- [Radio-Locator]
- [Wikipedia]
[Facebook]
[Studio]
Street View imagery of the WQSB and WAVU studios on US-431 in
Albertville.
- Owner:
- Sand Mountain
Broadcasting
- History:
- Started as
WAVU-FM in 1950 by WAVU-AM. In more recent history, they were one of
the first stations in the state to utilize RDS, but it is currently
inactive. At one point they were a class C station with 100,000
watts, but in 2000 they received a permit to lower power to just 2.7
kW with a directional antenna. This was likely to accommodate
Clear Channel in the Atlanta market, who moved a station from 105.5
in Carrollton to 105.3 in Bowden, with a big power
increase. WQSB supposedly stands for "Quality Stereo
Broadcasters".