WZGV? Not sure what's on 730 AM currently.
Hard to hear them in Gaffney or the SDR in Bakersville.
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AM 1110 Off The Air?
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WZGV? Not sure what's on 730 AM currently.
Hard to hear them in Gaffney or the SDR in Bakersville.
WZGV's AM is silent (and has been since 6/18), their FM translator though (W248CO 97.5) is off the air
Yeah, couldn't think of the callsign. What I meant was, the land where their towers are, is being sold and both stations were running dead carriers. There's an SDR in Bakersville? Whodathunkit!
)With the station being silent, are they actually off the air or just running a dead carrier, as they were when they first went silent. Also, with the translator's parent being silent, as in totally off the air, etc, I believe they (the translator) have to be off the air.
oh WZGV-AM is just only on a dead carrier, that's technically what i mean (i might have to put that in my vocabulary though lol)
I couldn't tell whether it was a carrier or not. I was tempted to guess it was, but I couldn't tell for sure.
Link to the Bakersville NC SDR Here:
W4GUZ .5-30 MHz SDR Bakersville, North Carolina
I've heard many AM stations in the Western Carolinas on the SDR in Bakersville .. However not when there is so much static on the whole band due to lightning in the area. ⚡ Nice to watch the visual spectrum spike contantly with every flash ..⚡
I was however able to see a strong carrier signal for 1110 on the visual spectrum display, but with no audio. Then I heard what actually sounded like oldies music behind the lightning static and weak signal on 730. ⚡ That didn't seem quite right.
On an unrelated note, I saw such a strong signal for SW station WWCR on 9350 kHz which was playing oldies music from the 1960s earlier this evening, hundreds of miles away, but was one of the strongest signals on the dial. Happy ARRL Field Day time with lots of SSB transmissions around 7 kHz as well.
W4GUZ .5-30 MHz SDR Bakersville, North Carolina
I've heard many AM stations in the Western Carolinas on the SDR in Bakersville .. However not when there is so much static on the whole band due to lightning in the area. ⚡ Nice to watch the visual spectrum spike contantly with every flash ..⚡
I was however able to see a strong carrier signal for 1110 on the visual spectrum display, but with no audio. Then I heard what actually sounded like oldies music behind the lightning static and weak signal on 730. ⚡ That didn't seem quite right.
On an unrelated note, I saw such a strong signal for SW station WWCR on 9350 kHz which was playing oldies music from the 1960s earlier this evening, hundreds of miles away, but was one of the strongest signals on the dial. Happy ARRL Field Day time with lots of SSB transmissions around 7 kHz as well.
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I can hear them in Columbia.
Roger on that, that's what it's called. Some years ago, when we were using our ol' trusty, rusty, tube-type transmitter (I believe it was a Harris), I tuned in when I wasn't on the clock and discovered we weren't transmitting all our signal on our assigned frequency. I tuned down the dial around 40KC and found where it was going. I called our GM at home and informed him, we're throwing a spur! He replied, huh? I had to get out of ham/radio lingo and explain it to him, then he/they got right on it.
)Roger on that. I need to poke around on it, still haven't been able to figure out how to use one of those thangs. WWCR playing Oldies, reckon they're playing anything these days. Oh yeah, Field Day was this past weekend, right?
They were trying to get people away from 1110, to wean them off by redirecting them and providing nothing on 1110.
Evidently they thought that if they simulcast, people would just stay with 1110 and would never get used to listening to 107.9.
They may have had closing down 1110, if indeed it does happen, as a "Plan B" all along.
Which is fine for nerds and DXers, not fine for advertising. Especially as the signal struggled in parts of their official area. And it's the advertisers that count. Charlotte advertisers aren't going to care somebody in Bermuda can recieve them. Nor are they going to care about Florida.
But some advertisers benefiting from WBT continuing to simulcast on AM would be better than the redirect loop, which is generating zero advertising income for the station.