Interference From WKSF on WXL56 162.40

[KyleSmith1988]

A temporary glitch is causing WKSF 99.9 to bleed into onto the signal of weather station
WXL56 162.40 Mhz in Asheville (both from the same tower atop Mt Pisgah).

WKSF could be heard in the background for the past day or so and I wonder how things could've went wrong here.

Engineers are aware and hope to get it fixed soon. It was announced on all the wx stations around the area and referred
to it as 'a degraded signal' and that they will be 'working with the commercial radio station to resolve this issue.'

 

[secondchoice]

Is the NWS audio delivered on a telephone circuit? Lighting might have messed up the RF filters that are used around high RF areas. I remember a small AM FM simulcast I worked at in the early 1970's. On Sunday afternoon they "split" the AM from the FM so they could "double up" preachers. One Sunday I though I have made a bad patch because the AM pre recorded preacher was bleeding in the the live FM preacher. It turned out the AM was "leaking" into the FM's (which was still mono) feed. No one noticed during the week, because the both AM and FM ran the same programming during the day. Both the AM and mono FM over phone company circuits (which was a "regulated" at a low rate at the time). Lighting can mess up anything!

 

[eacalhoun1]

WKSF could be heard in the background for the past day or so and I wonder how things could've went wrong here.

It's been going on much longer than a day or two. Several months, in fact. I think, however, the interference is intermittent. Sometimes it last for long durations, sometimes short or not at all.