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10/20/2010 WLW IBOQ is off

Bless this moment of analog purity, for however long we enjoy it, and thank you, whatever
entity responsible. I suspect it's just good ol' entropy.
 
Hope WLW keeps the IBOC off if that's what it's doing. I read on the IRCA forum that KEX Portland and KNX in L.A. have theirs off and one IRCA member said that KEX sounded better with no IBOC.
 
Still off now....very nice. Pray that they came to their senses.
 
In Lexington, KY (about 100 miles south of THE BIG ONE's tower), WLW sounds so much better ... and even stronger with the IBUZZZ turned off. I don't think this noise has any place in an established, analog band.

This IBUZZZ interference truly messes things up, especially at night. I enjoy listening to WSM at night, but there are many nights when the IBUZZZZ from WFAN on 660 is so bad, WSM is totally unlistenable.

In the Eastern U.S., on 1020, 1030 and 1040, try listening to KDKA, WBZ and WHO at night....Their Mutually DESTRUCTIVE IBUZZZZZing makes it really rough to hear any of them!

Does the FCC care about this interference? Obviously NOT!
 
ddsparxx said:
Hope WLW keeps the IBOC off if that's what it's doing. I read on the IRCA forum that KEX Portland and KNX in L.A. have theirs off and one IRCA member said that KEX sounded better with no IBOC.
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KNX is back in HD. They apparently did some tower work, because they sounded like they were on 10 kw with the auxiliary antenna.
 
ddsparxx said:
I read on the IRCA forum that KEX Portland and KNX in L.A. have theirs off and one IRCA member said that KEX sounded better with no IBOC.
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I've been noticing that I could finally get a signal of KEX at night, but still weak due to all that mess on 1190, but not as weak as before as sometimes I couldn't get it at all. Probably turning off their IBOC was a huge help.
 
I hope it is permanent. WHAS in Louisville tried unsuccessfully several times to fix its IBOC equipment but it failed after about the 3rd time they gave up trying to fix it.
 
Its been off for about a week I think, I wasn't for sure since Im over 500 miles from it and the signal still gets IBOC noise from WOR. Funny thing is WLW actually comes in better than WOR in Upstate NY since its getting attacked by something else, probably a Cuban station on 710.

KR4BD said:
In the Eastern U.S., on 1020, 1030 and 1040, try listening to KDKA, WBZ and WHO at night....Their Mutually DESTRUCTIVE IBUZZZZZing makes it really rough to hear any of them!

Does the FCC care about this interference? Obviously NOT!
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Hopefully this is a trend. Wasn't too long ago that WBZ and KDKA came in great where I am. Nowadays its the Battle of the Buzz, so much for "clear" channel stations.
 
microbob said:
I hope it is permanent. WHAS in Louisville tried unsuccessfully several times to fix its IBOC equipment but it failed after about the 3rd time they gave up trying to fix it.
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I've been wondering why WHAS shut theirs off. When it left WHAS and showed up on 790, I assumed that they just moved it from one station to another. Thanks for that tidbit. Watt Hairston posted a comment on here some months back that when the warranty ran out on the IBOC equipment, the AM band would start to clear back up. Hard to get the GM to drop 5-10 grand to repair something that was producing zero revenue. 690 and 710 are still clear here on Saturday morning.
 
I am told they are in the process of changing out the guy-wires (cables) on the Blaw-Knox and operating on aux tower.
 
Watt Hairston said:
I am told they are in the process of changing out the guy-wires (cables) on the Blaw-Knox and operating on aux tower.
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So the IBOC will be back when the work is done?
 
ddsparxx said:
WBZ is still having its IBOC on, but on KDKA, I don't see the HD blinking on my Sony HD tuner, so its IBOC must be off.
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Same here, but with the noise from WBZ and WINS IBOC I wasn't sure if my Sony was able to see if HD was there. We need somebody who can get a good signal from KDKA at night to confirm if its off. They'd have to be parked underneath the tower.
 
It was my guess that KDKA must have its IBOC off at that time.

And as for WLW, they should just leave the IBOC off for good.
 
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