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1st Spanish FM in MA

It was coming in tonight fairly strong on Rt 28 in N. Reading & Reading, and I kept getting it on
Rt 128 till around Lynnfield. There was an ID first in English then Spanish at 2 am.
 
Ah...
btw it was tough to hear because the signal was shaky but I'm not sure if the actual calls of the Newton NH licensed station (W221CH) were given, at least in English--maybe they were; in the Spanish segment I
thought I heard some numbers but wasn't sure if that was part of the ID in Spanish...
Also their website claims they are Boston only Hispanic radio station (Power 800; no mention of 92.1).
Licensed to Lawrence and I guess they do serve the Boston area, or much of it, but what about WKOX
and WXKS? I would think they'd qualify as Hispanic (let alone the various pirates but they're non-legal
anyway)
 
raccoonradio said:
It was coming in tonight fairly strong on Rt 28 in N. Reading & Reading, and I kept getting it on
Rt 128 till around Lynnfield. There was an ID first in English then Spanish at 2 am.
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The antenna is directional to the southeast for some reason. If you're driving on some highway, it does ok, but if you drive around residential streets in Lawrence, and are lucky enough to survive, there's occasional "picket-fencing" from the 92.1 in Sanford, ME. And up in Methuen, due niorth of the tower, if I turn my external antenna "sideways" to WNNW-FM, I get clear reception of either WFEX or WPHX.
 
Agreed--it was coming in fairly well on 128 in Danvers nr Liberty Tree Mall (and just before it, on higher
ground). Car stereo with a whip antenna, on higher ground, and to the southeast..and indeed either the
southern NH 92.1 or the Portland one started to cut in on it, through Peabody etc

I was again curious about the legal ID--around 5 pm yesterday they ran it but I heard no mention of the
92.1's calls though there was a reference to their being on 92.1 just before it. I also noticed they had
a syndicated traffic report-- en ingles--before going back to Spanish.
 
They don't have to ID the translator over the air if they're using what's called frequency-shift-keying (FSK) IDing, as most translators now do. It's an inaudible Morse Code ID.
 
If it's inaudible what's the point? How would anyone hear the ID?

Scott Fybush said:
They don't have to ID the translator over the air if they're using what's called frequency-shift-keying (FSK) IDing, as most translators now do. It's an inaudible Morse Code ID.
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raccoonradio said:
Ah...
btw it was tough to hear because the signal was shaky but I'm not sure if the actual calls of the Newton NH licensed station (W221CH) were given, at least in English--maybe they were; in the Spanish segment I
thought I heard some numbers but wasn't sure if that was part of the ID in Spanish...
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I don't believe W221CH is licensed to Newton, NH anymore. If you're looking on radio-locator, they seem to be somewhat confused with it's status. They show the TX location as the WXRV site, which is definitely not the case. They're operating under the construction permit (not shown on radio-locator), which is from the WNNW tower in Andover, licensed to Lawrence.
 
Since when is Morse Code inaudible? You may not
understand it (I do...) but it is audible! Alot of
non-broadcast radio services (cops, taxis, etc.)
still use Morse Code ID's...

73,
de WA1RFF
 
I agree, but Scott's post said the FSK ID was inaudible. I learned 5 wpm Morse for my Novice ticket in the 70's and promptly forgot it.

WLYNgm said:
Since when is Morse Code inaudible? You may not
understand it (I do...) but it is audible! Alot of
non-broadcast radio services (cops, taxis, etc.)
still use Morse Code ID's...

73,
de WA1RFF
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NHRadio said:
If it's inaudible what's the point? How would anyone hear the ID?

Scott Fybush said:
They don't have to ID the translator over the air if they're using what's called frequency-shift-keying (FSK) IDing, as most translators now do. It's an inaudible Morse Code ID.
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Simple, you don't.
You look at it on a analyzer and see the shift electronically.
It's a standard Frequency Shift Key. Been used for years to ID cell phone transmitters.
 
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