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Is your HD Station's HD turned-off for the EAN/EAS Test?

J

JohnnyElectron

Our LP1 shutdown their HD machine today and it back to analog only RDS - why, won't it work for EAS?

Curious if anybody else noticed their LP1 or LP2 reverting to analog only today for the test?

Anybody close enough to verify if WLW, WBZ, (and other PEP) stations are currently in HD or not?
I'm curious is Clear Channel is turning-off their HD noise makers for this test? That would not be a very truthful or acurrate test under those conditions, in my opinion?

What's your local LP1, LP2 or PEP doing as far as HD?
 
LP1 here was a "FAIL" - only white noise.
XM Radio also a "FAIL" with 3 seconds of audio.

One TV station here had audio (with mulitple audio feeds running), and the rest of the stations had no audio at all. Glad this was not an actual emergency as the test was highly unsucessful in Ohio.
 
Nothing to do with the test but I checked 1030 WBZ tonight and KDKA 1020 is hissing all over it although KDKA is almost buried in hiss itself from both WBZ and WINS 1010, and of course WINS is hissing all over KDKA. So basically the dial here in Worcester, MA is all hiss from lower than 1000 Kc to higher than 1050 Kc. What are they thinking?
 
They're NOT thinking, KB10KL. I wouldn't dignify their rudimentary mental processes with the word "thinking." Their heads are on autopilot!
 
It's the dumbest decision made by CBS in my opinion. At night WBZ's IBOC, probably together with KDKA's and CC's WHO, sounds like a loud jet engine roaring sound.
 
Beats me.

Our area's EAS test never made it past OPB, so if I had to make an educated (read: wild) guess, I'd say no, everybody probably left their Ibiquity signals on. Just a hunch.
 
ddsparxx said:
It's the dumbest decision made by CBS in my opinion. At night WBZ's IBOC, probably together with KDKA's and CC's WHO, sounds like a loud jet engine roaring sound.
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WBZ should be into the Chicago area at night like a semi-local. Fact is, it's now hard to listen to because WHO and/or KDKA are hissing all over it (if not one then the other). But, CBS gets sweet revenge on Clear Channel because WBZ hisses all over WHO. KDKA is collateral damage because it gets hissed on too. Basically, everything from 1010 to about 1070 is hissed on around here; then 1110 is impossible because of WTAM and KMOX hissing all over it.

Abject stupidity. :mad:
 
Hmmm. WBT 1110 sounds more clear here at night than WTAM and it doesn't use the IBOC hissmaker, when the loop antenna is aimed toward the Charlotte station.
 
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