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Noises on the radio

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jovialjay

For those that have asked about the noises emanating from the 98.3 and 103.9 spots on your dial in middle Georgia, it's NOT stunting. WQXZ and WSSY will soon return with normal programming.

Our cracked engineer pitched a conniption fit (with fever and fervor) and, armed with a handful of razor-sharp cutters and a blowtorch, did thereto proceed to rip out every single wire. He appeared extremely gleeful, and was making little grunting sounds.

That done, he is now installing all new wiring, some new equipment and reinstalling the equipment that wasn't junk.

While the programming will be essentially the same as before, we hope it'll be much better. The tools will be, anyway. The folks at world-wide headquarters have made a huge commitment to improving these radio stations, and that's a very good thing. It may be that they should be committed, but my degree is not in head medicine.

Big Jim Popwell is smiling widely from the great beyond. The radio stations are getting fixed up, but he ain't paying for it!

My degree? It's in runningmymouthology.
 
On a similar note, somebody has 610 from Hawkinsville sounding much stronger these days. It's nice to hear the station is packing a punch again and doing something different with the format. However, that garbage from Grayson on 610 creates interference when you're near Macon. Any idea on how the FCC allowed this spacing? I know, never question your government.
 
daryll said:
On a similar note, somebody has 610 from Hawkinsville sounding much stronger these days. It's nice to hear the station is packing a punch again and doing something different with the format. However, that garbage from Grayson on 610 creates interference when you're near Macon. Any idea on how the FCC allowed this spacing? I know, never question your government.
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We were asleep at the wheel when the Grayson 610 was squeezed in. This was about the same time that WPGA increased to 5kw. WCEH could have (and should have) gone for a 1,000 watts. It could've been done with the then rules and regs. Even without Grayson, I doubt it could be done under today.
 
jovialjay said:
daryll said:
On a similar note, somebody has 610 from Hawkinsville sounding much stronger these days. It's nice to hear the station is packing a punch again and doing something different with the format. However, that garbage from Grayson on 610 creates interference when you're near Macon. Any idea on how the FCC allowed this spacing? I know, never question your government.
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We were asleep at the wheel when the Grayson 610 was squeezed in. This was about the same time that WPGA increased to 5kw. WCEH could have (and should have) gone for a 1,000 watts. It could've been done with the then rules and regs. Even without Grayson, I doubt it could be done under today.
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The AM technical rules used to be less strict than they are now. If you were the only AM station in a community, you could accept interference but not deliver any interference into the protected contours. Now the rules are no intereference delivered or received. Also the protection was increased betwen first and second adjacent frequencies. Signal measurements were taken to prove the actual signals were less than predicted. It should be noted that AM signals in the hot dry summer months with full foilage can be half the signal strength AM stations get in the cold wet winter months without foilage. Thi s is especially true in the southeast where most areas suffer from extremely poor ground conductivity. There are actually areas in the mountains that are nearly 0.
While the FCC is aware of this seasonal signal difference, they typically will not require any measurements in the winter time unless another station complains about the encroachment of their signal.

Overlap between stations is grandfathered. The total area of interference can be moved but it can't be increased. Even so as it becomes harder and harder to locate AM sites, even this measure can be of little help to an AM operating on a frequency which has been "surrounded" over the years. The lower the frequency (toward 540) the more difficult since their secondary signal strength carries a much greater distance and those stations require taller towers and much larger underground ground radials...thus more land.

One of the most vigorus battles in this arena of AM overlap...recently took place when 1380 WAOK in Atlanta filed to increase from 5KW daytime to 50KW daytime. A 1KW AM in Alabama, also on 1380, filed against WAOK. It w as settled by WAOK decreaing the daytime power to 25KW.
 
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