"Classic Hits" not using its "classic" transmitter

[RFCCRadioAudio]

Has 830 started to experiment with AM Digital like that one station in the DC area?

Every other time I tune to 830, it's dead air.

And another thing, how can the "translator" rock and roll like nothing's wrong when the "parent" station is off and on?

 

[PTBoardOp94]

If you tuned a standard AM radio to an MA3 full-digital facility, you wouldn't hear silence. You'd hear what would probably be described as pink noise. In the same vein as if you tuned an analog television to WSMV on Channel 10, it would look like something, but nothing intelligible.

The translator should not be operating without the parent station.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

If you tuned a standard AM radio to an MA3 full-digital facility, you wouldn't hear silence. You'd hear what would probably be described as pink noise. In the same vein as if you tuned an analog television to WSMV on Channel 10, it would look like something, but nothing intelligible.

The translator should not be operating without the parent station.

The translator doesnt appear to be co-located with the AM... the translator is requried to be fed in the same method the am is, stl, ip, whatever.. i think.. and maybe something died at the am site that didnt die at the translator?

 

[kc4rae]

The AM goes through bouts of dead air sometimes for months at a time. No one notices unless someone tells them. I've messaged them on Facebook many times and it's fixed, but it happens so often, I've given up. Whatever they are using (it's IP likely), it's not very stable. Once, it was repeating the same 3 seconds of audio for at least an hour.

The translator isn't co-located. The AM shares the same site as WPLN in Madison (using one of their night towers) and it works great since WQZQ is day time only. One translator is at the WSMV tower and the other is in Robertson County.

 

[firepoint525]

One translator is at the WSMV tower and the other is in Robertson County.

I often listen to their translator on channel 4's tower. It is somewhat ironic that I can SEE that tower from out there on McCrory Lane, but their signal is often quite weak there. It just doesn't cover very well.

They were out here at the Pegram 4th of July parade a couple of years ago, never mind that they don't come in particularly well here. (I usually listen to them on Alexa!) Sometimes, WKYQ (country station in Paducah, KY) overruns their signal out here!

 

[kc4rae]

I often listen to their translator on channel 4's tower. It is somewhat ironic that I can SEE that tower from out there on McCrory Lane, but their signal is often quite weak there. It just doesn't cover very well.

Looking at it, no it doesn't. At least not on paper it doesn't. The only direction it has full power of 250 watts is just to the south. From there to the west, it is dramatically reduced to 88 watts. Coming back around, it doesn't regain much of it's licensed output. It comes close to the areas where it's important. I'm sure the hills out there don't make it easier. Two hundred meters or so just really isn't that high up.

The translator on 101.9 near Greenbrier has a deep null to the south. It works in areas in Robertson and Sumner counties that would get co-channel interference from WDNS which starts in Hendersonville going north if listeners stuck it out listening to 93.3 commuting back home.

 

[dactn63]

even the 101.9 feed is dead for long periods of and when its on it will be fine but then sometimes it drops to low sounds you can barely hear