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METV FM 88.7 Chicago is finally streaming

I couldn't help but notice that since my post praising Chicago's MeTV FM's audio processing on the stream (21 days ago), it has since changed. Gone is the airiness, and to some degree, dynamic range. It now sounds like any typically processed Audacy station. Oh well.
 
RMarino said:
They do need to refine their smart speaker results. After my initial post, I asked my Google Home to ”Play MeTV FM”. It started playing WXZO from TuneIn. So then I said “Play WRME” and it played 87.7 MeTV FM from Audacy. Great, but that was yesterday. So today I said the same thing. Play “WRME”. It says “sorry I don’t understand”. Ok, I say “Play MeTV FM on Audacy”. It thinks I’m saying Odyssey so it ignores that word and starts playing WDQN from TuneIn. Finally I say “Play WMYX-HD2”. Bingo! I finally got it. But the average listener will not got though all of this to listen to a station.
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tell alexa to play WGTO-FM and metv-fm will come up ...
 
If you are trying to hear WRME better, you might try an analog radio, a radio with 50 kHz steps available, or a digital fine tuning radio like the Tecsun Portables, to tune to 87.75 MHz. You might get a little more range that way.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
If you are trying to hear WRME better, you might try an analog radio, a radio with 50 kHz steps available, or a digital fine tuning radio like the Tecsun Portables, to tune to 87.75 MHz. You might get a little more range that way.
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My C Crane Skywave is able to digitally tune 87.75 precisely. The result for MTV FM in my fringe area is good reception barefoot with clear stereo audio. Unlike my car and other radios in the house.
 
Tropo in February on the Gulf Coast? Cyberdad takes the plunge and tries some FM DXing on the C Crane Skywave this morning. Comes up with WTIX-FM on 94,3, a 100kw New Orleans rimshot from Galliano, Louisiana. In with a good signal for about a half hour after 10am before disappearing. WTIX-FM is a reasonably decent re-creation 0f the "original" WTIX on 690 with mostly 70s music and vintage WTIX imaging complete with time chime. It was good to hear it. Distance was about 150 miles.

New Orleans via tropo isn't unusual on the Gulf during the summer, but this was the first time I heard WTIX-FM here. I didn't hear anything else on FM from New Orleans this morning, but a few Panama City Cities stations from about 100miles east of here were in.
 
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cyberdad said:
My C Crane Skywave is able to digitally tune 87.75 precisely. The result for MTV FM in my fringe area is good reception barefoot with clear stereo audio. Unlike my car and other radios in the house.
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I have a few radios, including my car radio, that are able to tune to .5 frequencies. If I listen to a strong local station on, say, 98.9 and tune to 98.95 instead, the results aren't pretty - there's a lot of distortion and it's generally unpleasant to listen to, especially on the move, that .5 off-frequency makes the multipath and flutter a lot worse. I can't imagine anyone listening to a station whose center signal is on 87.75 while tuned to 87.7 and not finding it irritating, but it seems they do.
 
larry langford said:
Processing on the MeTV Fm format from WGTO online is from an angry audio C-level processor and its sounds rather nice check it out if i do say so myself.. www.971.fm
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Larry Langford himself! Hi from England. I've got fond memories of driving around listening to your WGTO on 910 when I spent a few months staying in Michiana (back when you were also on 101.1 around Cassopolis, so a while ago!). Thanks for the music!
 
With WLNS-TV gone from Channel 6, I can't figure our why they are still Directional. It would take a big tropo event to get WRME-LP in Northern Michigan.

I think some digital radios will lock in on a signal 50 kHz off frequency. But you still can't get it in Stereo.

WLGH 88.1 was able to use Vertical Polarization with WLNS-TV 6 only about a mile away.

I wonder if anyone has heard WRME 87.75 on Sporadic E Skip.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
With WLNS-TV gone from Channel 6, I can't figure our why they are still Directional. It would take a big tropo event to get WRME-LP in Northern Michigan.

I think some digital radios will lock in on a signal 50 kHz off frequency. But you still can't get it in Stereo.

WLGH 88.1 was able to use Vertical Polarization with WLNS-TV 6 only about a mile away.

I wonder if anyone has heard WRME 87.75 on Sporadic E Skip.
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Back when 87.75 was Smooth Jazz I was able to get the station in Calhoun county, IL near the St. Louis metro area.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
With WLNS-TV gone from Channel 6, I can't figure our why they are still Directional. It would take a big tropo event to get WRME-LP in Northern Michigan.

I think some digital radios will lock in on a signal 50 kHz off frequency. But you still can't get it in Stereo.

WLGH 88.1 was able to use Vertical Polarization with WLNS-TV 6 only about a mile away.

I wonder if anyone has heard WRME 87.75 on Sporadic E Skip.
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I’ve heard MeTV FM 87.7 in New Jersey during e skip
 
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