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License to cover filed for Crawford's WYDE translator in Birmingham
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I was in Irondale this evening. I was barely picking up WFFN on 95.3.
There is no mention of the 95.3 translator in the WYDE hourly station ID...at least as of yesterday, anyway.
Rather a curious move, wouldn't you say? WYDE-FM's signal covers the Birmingham metro fairly well.
The FM is a Cullman city of license, and it does not even have a city grade in downtown. The usable 65 dbu does not get over the mountain.
But the translator, I thought, was for WYDE (AM) which has a mediocre day signal and a lousy night one.
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Heard 1260 this morning and on Friday...the
programming appeared to be somewhat different.
They run the iboc on and off on 1260,but the analog
is awful.
Their 850 iboc was +/- 40 khz this morning,washing
up against 810 and even 900,with a lot of digital artifacts.
It's a wonder why they remain wedded to iboc,only
way to get a new am iboc receiver now is with a new car
"carry case".
programming appeared to be somewhat different.
They run the iboc on and off on 1260,but the analog
is awful.
Their 850 iboc was +/- 40 khz this morning,washing
up against 810 and even 900,with a lot of digital artifacts.
It's a wonder why they remain wedded to iboc,only
way to get a new am iboc receiver now is with a new car
"carry case".
I wasn't aware you live in Bham...
Who knows with Crawford Broadcasting? Most of what they do makes little sense, anyway, lol
The 1260 day signal has not changed since it began with the current power level, and the interference level on AM has increased exponentially reducing the usable coverage by at least half in the last two decades.
Oh, yeah... long ago I was PD of 960 and 106.9.
I can attest to the degradation of that 1260 signal. I used to listen in the early 90's when it was oldies WCRT. It certainly doesn't sound as clear in the burbs as it did when I was a kid.
Even back when they ran C-QUAM it didn't suffer that bad.
I will say that WYDE-FM outperforms the coverage maps, especially after they raised the antenna a bit a while back. I listened to the FM pretty often on my commute, which was never further north than I-459 & I-65. Despite the terrain shadowing it was good enough for talk radio.
Even back when they ran C-QUAM it didn't suffer that bad.
I will say that WYDE-FM outperforms the coverage maps, especially after they raised the antenna a bit a while back. I listened to the FM pretty often on my commute, which was never further north than I-459 & I-65. Despite the terrain shadowing it was good enough for talk radio.
The problem is that 2/3 of diary market listening is not in the car, and the signal does not do well in-home or at work on Vulcan's "ass side".
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