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KMIH and 94.5 translator-dead air, here's what I got in their absense

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crainbebo

Well, today around 2:45-3:00PM, 88.9 KMIH and K233BU 94.5 were off the air with dead air today. Here's what I got in their absence. This is with a Sangean ATS-909, whip antenna, and concentration of adjacent frequencies.

88.9
K205DF Enumclaw, WA (Calvary Chapel :mad:) translator, in the null of dead air (KMIH), strong
CBUX-FM1 Victoria, BC (CBC Espace Musique Service, french language, fair-good signal w/static in the nulls of dead air and K205DF)

94.5
CFBT Vancouver, BC (Not that much of a surprise, very, very weak signal, heard very faintly ID "945 The Beat". Everything else on the frequency was dead air or bleed from KMPS and KUOW.)

-crainbebo

P.S.: I posted this on the Seattle board because a Seattle station is off the air. (Just being nice)
 
Yep, that was our bad, it appears the audio driver crashed our air computer while nobody was there (winter break) and I was on a conference call for the real job when I got paged about the issue. Big thanks to one of our volunteers for running up there while it was down so that they could help coordinate the reboot... Next project: working on a remote bypass system to start a secondary source.

I can also confirm that we were throwing a full-power dead signal the whole time on both frequencies.

For those interested 94.5 is an exciter fed with the IF output of a Nicom NLRFM1 receiver tuned to 88.9. The primary transmitter for the 88.9 signal is a two year old BE exciter fed by an omnia.sg FM stereo generator which is connected to the studio with an uncompressed digital STL. All audio processing at KMIH is omnia and both the primary, secondary and internet processors are in the studios.

In any case, I hope someone finds the info interesting. :)

Thanks,
John
 
crainbebo said:
Well, today around 2:45-3:00PM, 88.9 KMIH and K233BU 94.5 were off the air with dead air today. Here's what I got in their absence. This is with a Sangean ATS-909, whip antenna, and concentration of adjacent frequencies.

88.9
K205DF Enumclaw, WA (Calvary Chapel :mad:) translator, in the null of dead air (KMIH), strong
CBUX-FM1 Victoria, BC (CBC Espace Musique Service, french language, fair-good signal w/static in the nulls of dead air and K205DF)

94.5
CFBT Vancouver, BC (Not that much of a surprise, very, very weak signal, heard very faintly ID "945 The Beat". Everything else on the frequency was dead air or bleed from KMPS and KUOW.)

-crainbebo

P.S.: I posted this on the Seattle board because a Seattle station is off the air. (Just being nice)
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And you didn't hear KRXY on 94.5? Before CFBT signed on, you could hear them easily in Mount Vernon......
 
Nope, only dead air from the translator, faint CFBT or KMPS/KUOW bleed. If I nulled out the dead air, I either got nothing, bleed or CFBT. It seems like once in a long while I get KRXY. If not CFBT or bleed or the translator, it's nothing or E-skip.

-crainbebo
 
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