No more I-BLOCK for WOR

[Buckeyes2001]

From the New York board, WOR is no longer in HD. How's the reception now on 700, 710, and 720 for those of you in the east?

 

[audioguy]

I can report that for the first time in years, WGN can be heard clearly at night in western Michigan. WGN comes in just fine during the daytime, but at night it was frequently impossible to listen to, due to the IBOC sidebands from WOR which comes in very strong here. The location in question is only about 120 miles from the WGN tower. So there you have it; a definite improvement. I know there are a lot of Chicago people at my lake and I'm sure there are WGN listeners among them.

 

[schmave]

I am sure WLW is fairly happy about this as well. Now if WLW would just turn off its garbage hash maker ...

 

[Tincap]

Perhaps it'll be easier now for me to null out WOR and go after France Inter, Morocco's RTM, etc., on 711 kHz during TA season.

~BG

 

[Raider57]

WOR has since turned the IBOC back on. It was too good to be true

 

[Tom Wells]

Does WOR have garbled analog images reflected off the digital sidebands, like WSCR does?
They would be at 680 and 740. Yes, that's a "signal" 60-70 khz wide.

680- garbled analog image
690- "high" hiss
700- "low" hiss
710- muddled hissy analog
720- "low" hiss
730- "high" hiss
740- garbled analog image

Someone would probably have to be within 50 miles of the Jersey marshes to hear this.
By listening to the "center" analog signal on one radio, and another tuned 30 khz above or below, it is easy to
identify the sound as an image.

You'd probably have to use a radio that has an actual tuned rf preselector, not some modern digital autodyne type
without real tuning and no IF transformers.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

WOR has since turned the IBOC back on. It was too good to be true

That sucks. Now it's back to mutual signal destruction between WLW and WOR...and now WSCR is back in the I-BLOCK? So that means 660,680,690,700,710, and 720 are now practically useless in the east more than 30-40 miles from the local at night?

 

[ddsparxx]

I didn't have an opportunity to hear WOR with the HD off, but, what's the point of AM stations turning the I-BLOCK back on if the station sounds better without it? At night here in VA, the noise was mixing in with WGN and WLW.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Of course there is no chance to get WOR here in Texas, but I was able to easily detect the HD sidebands at night. I tried once in a while to see if those sidebands would translate to a decode, but I never got more than a flash of an ID. Too many co-channels nearby - KEEL, KGNC, etc, too many Spanish language and other adjacents.

I wonder if WOR analog coverage is back to its former range before this HD AM madness?

 

[gar hi]

I've never heard IBOC hiss from a distant station at night.

WWL is by far the strongest distant nighttime station here and I don't hear anything from them, so I assume they don't have it at night.

Haven't heard it from WYGM either and they sometimes boom in loud at night.