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106.3 translator up and running. Iheart country road on for now
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Signal is coming in very weak in South Queens....are they at full power 99 Watts ?
ansky212 said:
@ansky212 listening from SW Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Oddly enough the signal is not too strong in midtown Manhattan depending on the street.
Don't know what time they started broadcasting. They have gone down a few times though. Working out kinks I'm sure. Really curious to find out the format.
On Washington Ave going south from the navy yard,the translator signal dies when you get to Atlantic Ave.
In the Lower East Side. My stereo gets a rimshot of WFAF, which is from Mount Kisco. How that gets in beat me. ??? Another radio in my room get a faint signal of the translator. I barely hear through the static. There's also a religious pirate operating in Brooklyn using that frequency.
At 9 PM from Flushing, Queens I am getting a pirate playing reggae music at 106.3. Perhaps they were only testing the translator for a few hours.
Bruce
Bruce
In Bergen County north of Paramus 106.3 is nothing but a mess of this new translator along with WKMK & WFAF......I was able to receive WKMK in my house but now I get this new translator.....Furthermore, WFAF's signal in Southern Rockland is now worse then ever....So to make a long story short, 106.3 is completely unlistenable in this area which i figured it would be.
The reports so far seem rather poor. Evidently the translator is not even being heard well in Manhattan, Yet it is damaging reception of WKMK in the nearby suburbs. Of course WKMK is the only country station many people in northern NJ can (sort of) pull in.
Unless the translatpr's signal can be tweaked to be more consistent in its Manhattan based coverage area, I'd guess relatively few people will even be aware it exists.
Unless the translatpr's signal can be tweaked to be more consistent in its Manhattan based coverage area, I'd guess relatively few people will even be aware it exists.
The 99 watts from 4 Times Square may be going over everyone's heads at ground level, and may actually be stronger in the upper floors of the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Or maybe it's not running full power yet. 106.3 is a really bad frequency with Thunder, WFAF, and all the pirates. It's going to be tough to get people to listen to it in their cars. I think 87.7 would be a more valuable frequency than 106.3 even with half the car radios unable to tune to 87.7.
As someone mentioned before, there's a 106.3 pirate in the Bronx that covered most of Manhattan till the 40s (it could be heard on the ground at 4 Times Square). That pirate must be fighting with the translator in uptown. Clear Channel might regret paying so much for the translator when they realize pirate stations have better coverage. The best low power signal in New York is the 94.5 pirate in the Bronx which blankets Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens and even spills over into Jersey.
As someone mentioned before, there's a 106.3 pirate in the Bronx that covered most of Manhattan till the 40s (it could be heard on the ground at 4 Times Square). That pirate must be fighting with the translator in uptown. Clear Channel might regret paying so much for the translator when they realize pirate stations have better coverage. The best low power signal in New York is the 94.5 pirate in the Bronx which blankets Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens and even spills over into Jersey.
erwin33 said:
I'm pretty sure it must be full power. I live 12 miles west of the city and I can hear the translator fine if I position my antenna a certain way. FWIW, I live up on a hill facing NYC. Luckily WKMK is strong enough that I can still get a good mono signal and somewhat of a stereo signal.
Copied the signal in Secaucus & Jersey City in the car... seemed there was still some interference and flutter, but it would stop the seek button. The station doesn't stand a chance from the Meadowlands on out though. The frequency is a mish-mash-mess by the time you get there, with blend primarily from WKMK Thunder 106.3. I was thinking it might carry a bit better along NJ-3 than it did.
The wheel of corporate formats landed on "Soft Rock" for Friday 5/6/11. Permanent format to debut on Thursday 5/12/11.
Copy/paste URL: http://softrock.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/72/61080/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/softrock
iheartradio player (Soft Rock): http://www.iheartradio.com/mediaplayer/?stream_id=4336&channel_title=Soft Rock
Copy/paste URL: http://softrock.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/72/61080/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/softrock
iheartradio player (Soft Rock): http://www.iheartradio.com/mediaplayer/?stream_id=4336&channel_title=Soft Rock
erwin33 said:
Their taking the master iHeart Feed and then LOCALLY at CC NYC inserting the LegalID / Message in the automation that is being sent to 106.3.. Since its not the final format there is no reason for a dedicated feed for NYC yet.
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