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2 signals on KVET broadcasting (again)

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jras20

This happened once before this afternoon driving home from work, KVET had 2 audio's broadcasting over each other. one was a few seconds behind the other. Is that Iboc doing that?
 
I don't think so, IBOC is digital while analog is the only thing you'll get on a regular radio, unless you've got HD and you were hearing your receiver switching back and forth between the two.

Same programming on both these 'signals'?
 
Just a guess: Perhaps both the main transmitter with IBOC, and a backup transmitter without IBOC were somehow on the air at the same time. The IBOC transmitter would be 8-10 seconds behind the non-IBOC. The two signals would fight it out. Heard this happen with KHJK here in Houston a few years ago.

Or in KVET's case, it could be a glitch of the IBOC buffering delay on the analog audio stream resulting in a mix of live and delayed audio.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Just a guess: Perhaps both the main transmitter with IBOC, and a backup transmitter without IBOC were somehow on the air at the same time. The IBOC transmitter would be 8-10 seconds behind the non-IBOC. The two signals would fight it out. Heard this happen with KHJK here in Houston a few years ago.

Or in KVET's case, it could be a glitch of the IBOC buffering delay on the analog audio stream resulting in a mix of live and delayed audio.
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It was about 8 or so seconds I believe, both signals was fighting each other. They seemed to of fixed it when I was driving around tonight.
 
MisterRadio said:
Sounds like a malfunctioning delay unit....
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When something like that goes on for awhile it's a sad indication that no one at the station is actually listening to what goes out on the air.
 
It's actually not all that surprising. With HD Radio having the 8 second delay, you have to do what you were trained for years, even decades, not to do, which is listen in the program channel on the board instead of to the air signal. If the station board never leaves the "Program" channel, you won't hear the delay issues going out over the air until someone either turns on the station outside of work or sets up shop for a live remote.

I don't know too many people who listen to their own stations very often. Simply put, most radio people aren't huge fans of what they play on-air either because they took the job for a paycheck or because they get sick of the music at work and need a change when they go home!
 
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