Anyone notice the improvement on the audio quality for 99.9 ? They sound better and today I even noticed they have rds showing the Latina name .. for sure they are sounding way more upbeat than Rumba
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99.9 ANNOUNCING A FLIP
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Generally, wherever the population is not significantly Cuban in origin, Enrique does not do as well. For example, in San Antonio in 12+ he is 17th in a market that is 52% Hispanic.
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Height above average terrain has little to do with the reception of an AM station.
I was talking about their 99.9 FM translator on the Hancock building in Boston. Someone posted previously about whether WJDA would sell it. Their 1300 AM transmitter is still on a small tower in Quincy.
99.9 Latina was back on last night. Could have been comp. program logs ran out or some kind of tech issue. I was scanning the dial using my HD "tabletop portable" (Insignia, Best Buy) which if anything is half decent FM reception. I got to
102.9 "WNNW-FM" (on display) and then as I got
to WBGB and its various subchannels, the display still read "WNNW-FM" despite showing 103.3 freq. No WROR subchannels are on (still) from what I can tell.
WBUR as far as I know only does HD-1, no subchannels
102.9 "WNNW-FM" (on display) and then as I got
to WBGB and its various subchannels, the display still read "WNNW-FM" despite showing 103.3 freq. No WROR subchannels are on (still) from what I can tell.
WBUR as far as I know only does HD-1, no subchannels
WROR hasn’t even been broadcasting in HD at all for at least several weeks. Not even HD1 for their main channel, just analog (with RDS display). They’re still identifying HD1 at the top of the hours even though it isn’t even on.
WBUR has never done HD subchannels, only HD1.
If they would put The BBC World Service on HD2...I would gladly contribute more! ;-)
Don't know but just before noon 1300 and 99.9 were running the regular "Latina" with that word showing up on my car radio's display on the FM along with the name of the artist, Eddy Herrera
WPNH Plymouth, NH?
That would be my guess....They seem to get out pretty well. By late afternoon they tend to jam local 1300-WGDJ-Albany... in upstate NY...
Or maybe WPNH isn't powering down some nights?
I happened to be in the Windham NH area these past few days (not far from the 98.9 FM Translator site) which I had thought was supposed to be broadcasting the same audio programming of a nearby AM station...but I scanned the AM signals in the area and nothing matched up. The FM translator audio presentation came across sounding like a licensed FM station and even though I did listen in, off and on for these past few days...I don't recall hearing anything on-air that referenced it was related to an AM station.
Am I missing something that may have changed with the FCC's rules and regulations regarding FM translators being issued and assigned to an AM station...whereas the FM translator is required to broadcast the AM stations' audio programming...as opposed to coming off as a total separate broadcast facility?
I've heard the 98.9 give IDs without the
originating station--W255DA Salem.
Wiki says of WCCM 1490:"WCCM also operates on two translator stations, W255DA (98.9 FM) in Salem, New Hampshire and W279DH (103.7 FM) in Haverhill."
But is the AM the same programming as "Valley 98.9"?...
maybe have a way of rebroadcasting
an HD2 signal.
originating station--W255DA Salem.
Wiki says of WCCM 1490:"WCCM also operates on two translator stations, W255DA (98.9 FM) in Salem, New Hampshire and W279DH (103.7 FM) in Haverhill."
But is the AM the same programming as "Valley 98.9"?...
maybe have a way of rebroadcasting
an HD2 signal.
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Sure seems odd that we seem to have a "stand-a-lone" FM translator that I thought was established to support an AM station license...that doesn't. Sure there's some goofy things that the FCC didn't take in to account with how they issued FM translator authorizations for AM stations, like the two being used {on FM 97.1 & FM 101.5) for Exeter NH's WXEX AM 1540. Maybe I've been not paying close attention to what the FCC's been up to the past several years.
When it comes to FM translators for licensed FM stations...I was quite surprised a few years ago that the FCC missed closing what I believed was a loop-hole in their rules/regs which resulted in Manchester NH's WZID...to not re-broadcast the originating FM station's programming, which I was of the understanding the original intent by the Commission was for an FM translator to "fill-in" signal deficiencies within the originating FM stations' city grade signal contour...rather than rebroadcast an HD-2 audio source, in turn creating an entirely "different" over the air broadcasting entity. Oh...and then there's a good many Low-Power FM stations being programmed quasi-commercial where their "sponsorship" messages sure come across sounding like ads.
Oh well...back to "Valley 98.9" FM translator being broadcast from a good sized hill in Windham, it sure comes across to me that not only are they bending the intent of the rules/regs in how they've created a "stand-a-lone FM 'station'", I seriously question how their signal...if it's radiating within licensed power...can so easily be heard on Rt. 125 in the Epping NH area, even traveling north towards Lee, Barrington & Rochester, which interferes a bit with an adjacent channel Class A FM station out of Somersworth, NH at FM 98.7. Maybe the FCC isn't paying attention and/or just doesn't care all that much about "over-the-air" radio broadcasting these days.
Come to think of it...sorry if need be...for posting this comment on the Boston forum. I'll move it over to the New Hampshire site.
From what I can see, that Valley 98.9 translator was once attached to WCCM when it was operating at 1110 AM between 2017-2021. Then 1110AM became WMVX, and WCCM went to 1490. I can't see where Valley 98.9 is originating, unless it's from an HD2 somewhere. The FCC has authorized the use of HD2s and 3s as originators for translators.
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