W238CE, FM translator for WRBZ, being sold to Terry Barber.
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Translators can ID via "encoded" data, so they may be doing that. I've never worked with a translators, so perhaps one of the more knowledgeable persons here can expand on how that works.
Its called FSK... or frequency shift keying.. it shifts the carrier slightly at top of hour and is inaudible to the human ear
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Here's a picture from K262AI 100.3 Laramie, WY fed over the air by KWYC 90.3 Cheyenne, WY. See the box in the red circle? That little box is the FSK ID'er attached at the back, i believe after the transmitter and at TOH will blink when it's doing the FSK thing.
interesting, i don't know if the 95.5 translator actually is using one or not.
for over a month now, they've been 24/7 music with no staff, no Voicetracking, just a few (i counted less than 10) sweepers and a TOH that only ididentifies them as 1250AM WRBZ with zero mention of the FM.
also, since they returned to air, they are running commercial free. so this must be stunting until the translator sale closes.
for over a month now, they've been 24/7 music with no staff, no Voicetracking, just a few (i counted less than 10) sweepers and a TOH that only ididentifies them as 1250AM WRBZ with zero mention of the FM.
also, since they returned to air, they are running commercial free. so this must be stunting until the translator sale closes.
ok...i'm now fully convinced Little Engine Broadcasting is trolling listeners in montgomery, as all day saturday (march 25th) WRBZ is has flipped to spanish.
whatever Terry Barber has up his sleeve is either pure genius or so batshit crazy that there must be a padded room and grippy socks vacation in his future..
whatever Terry Barber has up his sleeve is either pure genius or so batshit crazy that there must be a padded room and grippy socks vacation in his future..
well if keeps a peso out of bluewater's pockets, good luck!
If I remember right, this isn't actually the first Spanish programming on WRBZ. It ran Spanish music and talk on weekends many years ago. As far as I know, though, this is the first full time Spanish station in Montgomery.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on whether it's part of some branded network, I'm assuming it won't be programmed locally.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on whether it's part of some branded network, I'm assuming it won't be programmed locally.
the talk and spanish on the weekends was when it was WAPZ 1250AM before the translator came along.
but what time frame?
I remember WAPZ from about 2004-2005 with urban type music including a song called "the poon tang man" which made the secretary and DJ (both black people) laugh when this white boy requested it in person after stopping by to read their public file.
i think it was betwen 2006-2010, i remember J&W broadcasting selling the station around that time.
that was you that did that right?
yes they were, but they were also barely 1 watt day or night, so you had to sit in the parking lot of the transmitter with a tin foil hat just to listen.
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