I guess I am hearing what the Hash talking is. I was out at San marcos today scaning over the AM dial, all I was able to get was WOAI. I heard nothing but the Hash noise on all the other dials. I couldnt even recieve KTSA or KLBJ. OR am760 which was also local in that area. I am using my factory ford digital radio.
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AM Noise "Hash?"
- Thread starter jras20
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I'm not familiar with your area, how close to the transmitter were you? Normally you would hear the hash 15 khz above and below the offending station's center frequency, it is a lovely sound, very jarring. It should not cover the whole dial however unless you are extremely close to the transmitter (like within a 100 yards) and even then I doubt it would cover the whole dial although I've never been in that situation. Anyone else have better experience than I do with extremely close proximity reception? (I avoid iBlock stations like the plague).
I have a hard time believing the whole AM and FM were hiss-filled by an iboc station.
As bad as iboc is, I don't think it can overload any radio at 28 miles.
There must be something else that was causing it.
How large of an area was impacted by this?
I can drive right by the towers of WGN 720 and WBBM 780 both in iboc and still hear anything clearly except the
2 channels above and below they wipe out.. Even AM 750 from Portage Indiana, 45 miles away, though they get a bit splattered
within 1 mile.
Of course, this is with a 1972 factory Motorola AM/FM. It has a true RF preselector tuned gain stage on AM.
Hospital on March 27th, huh?
I hope you have picked a hospital in Houston where you can open a window and throw a chunk of magnet wire out the window for
AM signal pickup, because most hospital are RF-shielded and noisy as all get out.
Maybe someone will bring you a helium balloon you can tie the magnet wire to and send it up over the hospital.
Tie off the balloon lead at the window, wrap 5 loops around the radio, then connect the end to a earth ground on one of the
ground pins on the many outlets found in a hospital room. AM should work OK then.
As bad as iboc is, I don't think it can overload any radio at 28 miles.
There must be something else that was causing it.
How large of an area was impacted by this?
I can drive right by the towers of WGN 720 and WBBM 780 both in iboc and still hear anything clearly except the
2 channels above and below they wipe out.. Even AM 750 from Portage Indiana, 45 miles away, though they get a bit splattered
within 1 mile.
Of course, this is with a 1972 factory Motorola AM/FM. It has a true RF preselector tuned gain stage on AM.
Hospital on March 27th, huh?
I hope you have picked a hospital in Houston where you can open a window and throw a chunk of magnet wire out the window for
AM signal pickup, because most hospital are RF-shielded and noisy as all get out.
Maybe someone will bring you a helium balloon you can tie the magnet wire to and send it up over the hospital.
Tie off the balloon lead at the window, wrap 5 loops around the radio, then connect the end to a earth ground on one of the
ground pins on the many outlets found in a hospital room. AM should work OK then.
It sounds like you could have a problem with you radio, IBOC only spreads out over 30 Khz unless this is a new "improved" experimental form. Hey, that helium balloon idea would b e a good accessory to go with IBOC receivers float them up to a couple of 100 feet and improve the range, it might even improve the range approaching that of an ordinary analog FM receiver.
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