When I went past it to do more dxing it was in mono. Its not supposed to be in mono it supposed to be in stereo lol.
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
k99.1 in mono?
- Thread starter robmadden1
- Start date
You should be receiving stereo now.
As I understand it, it was a switching issue with an old exciter that has now been switched out.
As I understand it, it was a switching issue with an old exciter that has now been switched out.
J
Josh_Cols
Guest
WOW!! K99 had a technical issue? I have been all around the country and when I was in the Dayton-Cincy area; I listened to K99 allot, and can never recall them ever sounding like they had any sort of technical issues; they always sounded loud and clear, in stereo all the time, even after Dayton would get pounded by storms, it never seemed like their 1000 foot tower ever got struck by lightning and knocked them off the air, nor did it seem like a power failure or other technical issue ever took them off the air or even to a reduced power.
Anyone have any stories when K99 had been off the air or suffered some noticeable technical failure?
I was in Denver in April when some areas got 2 feet of snow in the foothills and elevations over 6000 feet and Denver proper just got rain, but the country giant KYGO was on their AUX tower at only 20,000 watts and broadcasting in MONO versus their primary at 100kw for like 3 days off and on, due to no utility power on Squaw Mountain where their transmitter is located and a lightning strike (it lightings with snow in the spring in Colorado...weird) took down the generator for them and another 100kw fm and a TV station. Like K99, KYGO and the entire Lincoln family of stations are very well engineered and very seldom do they have noticeable transmission issues.
Anyone have any stories when K99 had been off the air or suffered some noticeable technical failure?
I was in Denver in April when some areas got 2 feet of snow in the foothills and elevations over 6000 feet and Denver proper just got rain, but the country giant KYGO was on their AUX tower at only 20,000 watts and broadcasting in MONO versus their primary at 100kw for like 3 days off and on, due to no utility power on Squaw Mountain where their transmitter is located and a lightning strike (it lightings with snow in the spring in Colorado...weird) took down the generator for them and another 100kw fm and a TV station. Like K99, KYGO and the entire Lincoln family of stations are very well engineered and very seldom do they have noticeable transmission issues.
I was shocked when it was in mono. I never ever in my life ever heard them with probleems and I live in Cincinnati.
K
kyscott
Guest
robmadden1 said:
Even the best of transmitter sites can have problems. Exciter cooling fans die, fuses blow, caps dry out. It's good to have well maintained sites so small problems like this don't develop into larger problems. However, all the equipment is man-made, it will break at some time.
And on a side note, I doubt it was the exciter giving the problem as mentioned above. Unless the exciter developed a problem that would not allow it to pass the composite stereo signal. Older exciters rarely contain a stereo generator. Stereo generators are normally contained in your processors like the Optimods and Omnias. Newer exciters like the Harris Digits have stereo generators, but that's only if you use the AES audio inputs.
Last time I was in the "meat" of that building, there was a backup FM transmitter in the Wilmington Ave bldg in case both transmitters (on-air and backup) in the Gettysburg-Germantown area tower field failed. I believe I heard it on the air exactly once..the only time I ever got spurious emissions of WHKO elsewhere on the dial (was trying to listen to WGRR at the time and never had K99.1 interference except that one time and I was fairly close to the Cox palace).
What I find interesting is that none of their staff knew it was happening until it was mentioned here. How long could this have been going on?
J
Josh_Cols
Guest
I remember a couple years ago out in Denver when KEZW, a AM standards station, had tower lights that were out on their array right off a busy interstate, and near a densly populated area, and Entercom didn't know about it or didn't seem to care about it until it was mentioned on denverradio.net.
IWorkThere said:
No, they realized it fairly quickly, they just didn't run to radio-info.com and report it to you.
The problem was that they switched to the backup transmitter/exciter/processor. The processor in the backup chain is around 20 years old, so anything can happen. The monitor at the transmitter site is pretty much a POS. So it's easy to see how it could happen.
And that darn 1000 ft tower gets hit by lightning all the time! The panel antenna is a constant headache in that regard.
K
kyscott
Guest
greg.hahn said:
I have an 8100 I'll sell them, cheap.
J
Josh_Cols
Guest
I was wondering, is K99 co-located with anyone on their tower? Any other FM's or TV? Do they share the stick with WHIO-TV? I wasn't in Dayton long enough to get to know what tower is what in West Dayton.
K
kyscott
Guest
greg.hahn said:
I take it the station is owned by Cox?
- Status