Hearing audio under WUNR's signal

[Wimmmex]

WUNR was playing some quiet music the other day, and I was hearing a second station in the background talking about racial issues, etc.

Would this have been WWRL from NYC?

Should it be possible mid afternoon to pick up WWRL in Boston?

I would imagine it shouldn't be so strong that it is audible under WUNR.

 

[raccoonradio]

It would be possible.
Once after dark in Beverly I was hearing
what may have been WCCO 830 Minneapolis
under WCRN Worcester.
Got mixed stations on 560--WGAN Portland ME and WHYN Soringfield--both carrying Howie Carr, slightly off sync from one another.
FM stations can only be one at a time, not together--like having WMWM Salem and WNEF Newburyport going back and forth
while on I-95 south in Essex County.
The display may read WMWM SALEM STATE RADIO even if you're getting WNEF at the moment.

 

[CTListener]

Got mixed stations on 560--WGAN Portland ME and WHYN Soringfield--both carrying Howie Carr, slightly off sync from one another.
FM stations can only be one at a time, not together--like having WMWM Salem and WNEF Newburyport going back and forth
while on I-95 south in Essex County.

WDRC-FM Hartford and WBLM Portland do the same when conditions are right in Worcester County on the Mass Pike. When DRC was oldies/classic hits, it was easy to tell which one you were listening to, but with both now tight-playlist classic rockers they might as well be the same station.

 

[raccoonradio]

FM signals may waver back and forth but not be on at same time like what I said with the two 560s. The switch can be quick on FM between one and the other, though.
The 101.3 simulcast of WJIB has been known around Beverly or Danvers to go back and forth to the Milford WMRC translator (one time I was getting Red Sox game on the freq and thought it was a Maine station floating in but probably was WMRC's fm translator)

 

[Wimmmex]

WDRC-FM Hartford and WBLM Portland do the same when conditions are right in Worcester County on the Mass Pike.

Yeah, but this was on AM and in they city of license for one of the stations where the station should be assured to be free of interference

 

[Eli Polonsky]

WUNR was playing some quiet music the other day, and I was hearing a second station in the background talking about racial issues, etc.

Perhaps there’s a chance it may have been crosstalk from another of the two AM stations, 1200 AM WXKS or 1330 AM WRCA, that transmit with WUNR from the Oak Hill site in Newton, bleeding into the background of WUNR’s audio on their signal.

 

[fybush]

WUNR is licensed to Brookline, not Boston, so it's only expected to deliver an interference-free signal within Brookline town limits.

From the description of what you heard, I have no doubt it was WWRL.

Up at the top of the dial, medium wave can behave more like shortwave. It's not unusual to hear WWRL up here in Rochester in the middle of the day, especially in winter. There's something with their segmented antenna design that seems to emphasize skywave - it's sometimes easier to hear WWRL up here than it is in parts of Queens.

And it's worth a reminder that even the FCC interference models aren't perfect. They're averages and not always an exact prediction of what will happen in unusual real-world conditions.

 

[Wimmmex]

WUNR is licensed to Brookline, not Boston, so it's only expected to deliver an interference-free signal within Brookline town limits.

I thought David Eduardo said they could be (somewhat) confident of interference free within the red zone, no?

 

[frankberry]

Perhaps they are not running at full power

 

[raccoonradio]

If I said earlier FMs on same freq can't both be heard at same exact time, mixed stations, oops they can
Just now in N Reading both on 91.7:
--WNEF running Beatles tune (Eleanor Rigby I think)
Mixed at same exact time with
--WMWM the Fourmost "Hello Little Girl"--an early Lennon composition

 

[davideduardo]

I thought David Eduardo said they could be (somewhat) confident of interference free within the red zone, no?

No, the "red zone" on radio-locator is close to where you will generally not hear man made interference from stuff that covers the range of wall-warts to dirty insulators on electric lines. And, in fact, the very approximate radio locator red curve exaggerates that local listenable signal.

And radio locator does not take into account the signal needed to overcome interference from co-channel stations at all.