• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Worst LPFM sound quality you've heard?

I looked up KCPZ-LP, turns out they lost the tower site according to their STA they filed.
KPPZ-LP hasn't lost the site yet and no STA now, just horrible management.
 
SnottyNose799: Can you provide proof of 'horrible management'? Before you go around trying to destroy the reputation of certain licensed stations, you had better be able to prove it. Have you contacted the station?
 
WQJT-LP in Freeport, Illinois. But now it hasn't even been on the air for several months. And no notification of that fact to the commission.
 
One LPFM I came across from the first window had recently come on the air and was running 10am to 10pm with no processing and simply playing from the CD on a computer and the computer microphone run directly to the translator. They were trying to get the cash to take a step up: processing and a basic studio. Programming was essentially play a CD all the way through, do an ID and start the next one. Fortunately they were prety much classic hits, so they played compilation CDs. The signal was thin and seemed a bit tinny to me but I don't have audiophile ears. By the way, the station is still operating.
 
My view- I am inclined to not be concerned about audio quality on LPFM stations. I say give them a break. Many are doing the best they can with little resources. What I would like to see is the installed and broadcasting technical facility parameters in agreement with parameters of the licensed facility.
 
The LPFM I do content for has a transmitter with its on onboard audio processing. It runs 24/7/365 and covers a couple of small town villages in Logan County, Ohio. I program the station, keep it on air. We are hoping to get it online from Live 365 soon.
 
not an LPFM but a translator, W264BT in NJ sounds awful, it literally is translating directly from AM and is very loud.
 
The worst one I ever heard was in eau Claire Chippewa falls they literally have no internet at that area and they were using c-band dish maybe if they were lucky they may have been using a KU band dish regardless it's 97.3 whrc LP and the station literally sounded like a skipping CD when it wasn't making a skipping CD sound it sounded like it was encrypted you know like the 1980s on TV encryption and when it wasn't doing that it was just a loud buzzing noise

I truly wish I took video of that incident but it was absolutely entertaining to watch it all unfold I decided to go to fccdata.org and I found the engineers phone number so I decided to reach out to them 3 months of past they're still having trouble and there's still no response I'm guessing there's not even a human that even visits the building based on what I could get through simple searching I'm almost pretty sure it's abandoned or neglected and is completely run off of a dish of sorts it would make sense because there's no cell phone service and if you're lucky you might get via set or HughesNet the closest place that has internet was literally the library or the schools
 
tb_ said:
A city-owned two-LPFM simulcast, KZCC-LP and KZCW-LP, in Conroe/Willis, TX.

Hilariously undermodulated audio, and the stations are discretely fed off of what sounds like a headphone splitter. One station gets the left channel, the other gets the right channel. Currently, KZCW has been running dead air with a stereo pilot for months. Great use of tax dollars.
Click to expand...
I know this is old but KZCC-LP has sounded awful for well over a year. Most radios it sounds really quiet and muffled but the adjacent channels are quite loud. It's weird though, one of my radios when I plug headphones in makes the station sound fine. But KZCW-LP has been dead air at most checks for awhile as well. Waste of spectrum.

Just north of there KPIA-LP is very undermodulated and quiet I believe they only use around 50 kHz of bandwidth.
 


Back
Top Bottom