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NJ 101.5 Dead Air (I don't think it was lightning)

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Right now, I am hearing dead air on New Jersey 101.5. There is a faint 60 Hz hum when I turn the volume up all the way. I live 2.5 miles from the tower, so it has to be NJ 101.5 playing dead air.

Was it lightning? (couldn't resist :) )

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While I was typing this post, at 8:25, Hotel California came on NJ 101.5 in wonderful mono audio with heavy digital compression.<P ID="signature">______________
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Location: Princeton Junction, NJ
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Seems like a bad UPS ... details to follow.

> Right now, I am hearing dead air on New Jersey 101.5. There
> is a faint 60 Hz hum when I turn the volume up all the way.
> I live 2.5 miles from the tower, so it has to be NJ 101.5
> playing dead air.
>
> Was it lightning? (couldn't resist :) )
>
> ---
>
> While I was typing this post, at 8:25, Hotel California came
> on NJ 101.5 in wonderful mono audio with heavy digital
> compression.
>
 
> While I was typing this post, at 8:25, Hotel California came
> on NJ 101.5 in wonderful mono audio with heavy digital
> compression.

That's digital aliasing you're hearing, not digital compression. As we discussed here with Tom a few weeks ago, it's a mono backup STL (studio-to-transmitter link), and somewhere along the line it's missing an anti-aliasing filter, which causes this awful "Sound Blaster 1.0" type of distortion.

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Maybe Frank Thomas had to go out to his car for a box of "Broken NJ 1015 Records" since that is all they play and took longer than he anticipated

:-D
 
It was a bad UPS ... the U failed.
The bad sound is a mono analog land-line,
but as MikeF suggested, it may be digital
someplace in the circuit on Verizon's end.

>
> That's digital aliasing you're hearing, not digital
> compression. As we discussed here with Tom a few weeks ago,
> it's a mono backup STL (studio-to-transmitter link), and
> somewhere along the line it's missing an anti-aliasing
> filter, which causes this awful "Sound Blaster 1.0" type of
> distortion.
>
 
> Right now, I am hearing dead air on New Jersey 101.5. There
> is a faint 60 Hz hum when I turn the volume up all the way.
> I live 2.5 miles from the tower, so it has to be NJ 101.5
> playing dead air.
>
> Was it lightning? (couldn't resist :) )

Big Joe Henry wanted a little snack so he ate the TX line (couldn't resist..love ya, joe). LOL<P ID="signature">______________

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>> Seems like a bad UPS ... details to follow.<<

Maybe all the burnt out music caused a fire at the studio! ;-)
 
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