I thought the Crazy Water Barndance was on Saturday nights. Could be moved to Thursdays now, much like the Opry, they've got it every night now.
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I thought the Crazy Water Barndance was on Saturday nights. Could be moved to Thursdays now, much like the Opry, they've got it every night now.
)Yeah, I've had more radio memories come back to me since I've been up here and my son finding those tapes helped too LOL.
Late to the conversation (as usual) but, tonight I was playing around with...wait for it...a 100 year old Freshman Masterpiece radio. WBT is, above all others, the most reliable nighttime signal at my house in rural Maryland. I hadn't tuned it in for a while, obviously. The "stunting" had me puzzled for a bit (thinking I'd tuned two stations at once on the old girl!) and then once I figured it out, it just left me sad.
Wow just looked it up, that's a real classic! Does it work well? Hopefully They'll come up with a worthwhile format.
They were essentially obsolete 98 years ago! Tricky to tune, but it does work. Tonight around 6:30 I grabbed WWVA, WBT, WBZ & KDKA. Guess that would make some long-dead Westinghouse executive proud.
WOW!!! A Freshman Masterpiece? That's 100 years old now. The circuit is TRF, which was common in that era. Three tunable RF stages and two audio stages. IIRC, all three dials had to be properly tuned in order to get any station at all on any TRF receiver, and one had to write the settings down for each station. I would think that a simpler 1 or 2 tube regenerative circuit would have performed better over the entire AM band (then 550-1350 kHz) if operated properly.
Roger on the sad feeling, kinda like an old friend still living, but using the ability to communicate with you, as he once did. Wow, what an old rig. And yes, welcome to the discussion.
At your location, do you receive both DC and Baltimore radio and TV signals? Or possibly Philadelphia? I know in recent years the radio and TV dials have gotten rather crowded in the Mid Atlantic and Northeast regions.
Whenever 1110 launches their new format, would it be nice to return with an HD feed? Or does that present too many technical problems? I can't recall why their HD signal was dropped, although most AM stations seemed to have done so. I know 700-WLW in Cincinnati used to have a good HD signal, so it can be done.
Many stations which had directional antennas had trouble with AM HD due to the limited bandwidth of their transmit antenna. I don't know if WBT was one specifically who had that problem. Since AM HD didn't produce any revenue, any expense to improve this performance could not be justified. WLW would not have had this problem, because they do not use a directional antenna.
Also, WLW's owner Clear Channel (iHeart) was one of the biggest users of AM HD in its heyday.
Also, WLW's owner Clear Channel (iHeart) was one of the biggest users of AM HD in its heyday.
From what I remember WBT only used HD while the NAB had their NAB Radio Show here in Charlotte. They even gave tours of the WBT transmitter site.
Most stations are only allowed to use HD during the day because it causes serious adjacent channel interference. There just isn't enough bandwidth for both digital and analog signals
What? Which stations are those?
Not anymore as of September 14th, 2007, when the FCC authorized nighttime use of AM IBOC (HD Radio), except in cases where interference was reported. Some stations also voluntarily kept the IBOC off at night, especially those with reduced power levels and/or tight directional patterns, which rendered nighttime HD signal coverage ineffective.
But it's all a moot point because very few AM stations transmit a HD Radio signal anymore, and in this case, WBT never used it on a regular basis, and hasn't used it at all in many years.
Wow, now there's a term I haven't heard in years, IBOC. Back when we (the station I worked for, for a little over six years) got a new Nautel (sp) transmitter (whenever that was), I believe it came with that, but we never used it.
For @DelmarvaDX, I meant to say the following, sorry, I just caught this.
Roger on the sad feeling, kinda like an old friend still living, but loosing the ability to communicate with you, as he once did. Wow, what an old rig. And yes, welcome to the discussion.
Roger on the sad feeling, kinda like an old friend still living, but loosing the ability to communicate with you, as he once did. Wow, what an old rig. And yes, welcome to the discussion.
the january book is in. wbt-fm went up (6+ of course) from 3.6 to 4.2. wbt (1110) is a complete no show. i hoped they would at least show up.
wlnk rebounded (???) from 0.6 to 1.1. that little gaffney station that used to run high school football is now #1 6+ in the Charlotte market, with a 7.7.
wlnk rebounded (???) from 0.6 to 1.1. that little gaffney station that used to run high school football is now #1 6+ in the Charlotte market, with a 7.7.
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To what little Gaffney station are you referring? Oh and is it me, or is the this board's clock messed up? It said Mike's post came in at 3:41 (it says twenty minutes ago) and when I checked the time on my clock, it was 3:30. I'm not talking about Eastern versus Central (or as we say 'round, Fast Time versus Slow Time), either.
Oh, when will the madness end???