88.3 WAIF's Signal

[DrSquelchcrash]

Hello...
What is up with WAIF at 88.3? I have never heard such a "legal" signal distroy it's part of the dial like this one. Driving up the "Cut in the Hill" the signal oblitirates 88.1 and 88.5, and also chips away at WOBO 88.7 also. 87.9 is also significantly splashed also. It almost seems like their transmitter is a highly cheap amplified Ramsey!
Anyone else notice this? The Eden Park area must have no other radio in the 88 to 89 regions. Compare this "1600" watt station's splatter with any other giant FM signal in the area. Today, with the rain, WOBO was getting splashed even more then usual.

73
DrSquelchcrash Standing by...

 

[Toddy-0]

It doesn't surprise me. When I was on the advisory board at WJVS, there were always issues with WAIF. In fact, the CE at one point put a timer on the transmitter. (Don't know what he did with the exciter). What's a few thousand watts. Is WAIF on both old WKRC-AM towers or just one?

 

[microbob]

I noticed they were off the air Tuesday evening. Must be transmitter problems. They've had issues in the past splattering all over the dial.

 

[NoWayNoCC]

Everyone's kvetching about WAIF, but there's not a word about how Crap Channel's WVMX (and occasionally CC's WOFX) have been splattering all over the dial for the past 5 years now. I get these stations through my computer speakers, for crying out loud, and everyone defends it in the name of True Free Speach Now (tm).

 

[WyllyWylly]

Either you've got cheap computer speakers, or you live awfully close to a transmitter. I've not had this problem in ANY tuner that I've used in recent memory.

 

[gr8oldies]

If you live under the towers, you're going to get bleedthrough, period. If you live in some of Dayton's close-in souith suburbs, you're going to get WLQT, WTUE, WMMX, WHKO and others all over the dial.

 

[DrSquelchcrash]

Either you've got cheap computer speakers, or you live awfully close to a transmitter. I've not had this problem in ANY tuner that I've used in recent memory.

Have you ever been at the base of a transmitting facility before? Compare the base of any FM station in this area, tune up and town from the center frequency, and then head to the base of the WAIF transmitter and do the same and see what I'm talking about. There has to be something very wrong with that system they have.
It's easy to test what I'm talking about on the Cut in the Hill for example (Both stations within sight here). Check blowtorch 102.7, and then 1.6 KW 88.3. Do both stations spread out across the spectrum the same? No. 102.7 may have intermod or harmonic, but 88.3 is just sloppy.

73
DrSquelchcrash

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[WyllyWylly]

Sorry Doc, I was referring to the WVMX/WOFX statement when I wrote that. I don't notice this problem with either of the aforementioned signals. I do agree that 88.3 is very sloppy; the bleed is bad and wrecks the two neighboring frequencies.

I used to live within a quarter mile of the old Kiss stick. I heard it in the phone, on dubbed cassettes, pretty much any sound reproducing device picked it up. WAIF at present has the bleed of an AM transmitter, but on the FM dial, and you don't have to live in close proximity to the tower to notice it.

 

[WyllyWylly]

Just following up... I had the opportunity to cruise the cut in the hill and listen to the bleed today. It's so overmodulated that it completely stomps on WMKV (88.5) and the station sitting just underneath it too (88.1). On Buttermilk Pike, the effect starts to lessen, but it's still horrible. Same thing in downtown Cincinnati, too.