I just read the list of HD radio stations in New York State, and one station there has the most perfect call letters of any HD station thus far: Albany-Schenectady-Troy WBZZ-FM 105.7. Yep, THE BUZZ, WBZZ-FM - couldn't have said it better myself!
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Perfect Call Letters for HD Radio
- Thread starter JohnnyElectron
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Explains why anybody would call their station "The Buzz".
It's a play on the meaning.
When I was in NJ. I had my 10 best days of the year. It was my way of saying,"The weather here sucks! You better enjoy today, because it doesn't get any better than this...and tomorrow isn't looking much better, either."
Contrast that to here, we only have about 10 bad days.
Now I'm spoiled...but San Diego started that.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
It's a play on the meaning.
When I was in NJ. I had my 10 best days of the year. It was my way of saying,"The weather here sucks! You better enjoy today, because it doesn't get any better than this...and tomorrow isn't looking much better, either."
Contrast that to here, we only have about 10 bad days.
Now I'm spoiled...but San Diego started that.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
To my ears, the sound of AM IBOC is closer to the German “hard ch” of Bach (represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the letter x) than to the “soft ch” of ich (represented in IPA by the symbol ç -- and that’s not the ç in Français, which sounds like an s).
The hard version follows mid and back vowels like a, o and u, while the soft one follows e and i. (In initial position, ch is never like the Spanish j in jota. It's often the “soft ch” of ich; but in obvious loan words it’s either a k sound or an sh sound, as in the original language.)
If you speak both English and Spanish, neither will give you any trouble. The “hard ch” sounds like the final j in the Spanish word reloj, while the “soft ch” is pretty close to the initial sound in human and huge, which results from combining an "h" with a “y” sound (j in IPA), except the tongue is just a little higher.
Try making those two sound, and see which you think is closer to AM IBOC.
The hard version follows mid and back vowels like a, o and u, while the soft one follows e and i. (In initial position, ch is never like the Spanish j in jota. It's often the “soft ch” of ich; but in obvious loan words it’s either a k sound or an sh sound, as in the original language.)
If you speak both English and Spanish, neither will give you any trouble. The “hard ch” sounds like the final j in the Spanish word reloj, while the “soft ch” is pretty close to the initial sound in human and huge, which results from combining an "h" with a “y” sound (j in IPA), except the tongue is just a little higher.
Try making those two sound, and see which you think is closer to AM IBOC.
No one's take WSUK yet?
what about taking a callsign prefix west of the Mississippi, and appending (after the K)...
RAP
UNT
CUF
Or, after the "W" (east of the Mississippi)...
USS (there's a KUSS FM station)
can't think of any others at the moment.... or are there some callsigns that will never be assigned?
RAP
UNT
CUF
Or, after the "W" (east of the Mississippi)...
USS (there's a KUSS FM station)
can't think of any others at the moment.... or are there some callsigns that will never be assigned?
tfcwings said:what about taking a callsign prefix west of the Mississippi, and appending (after the K)...
RAP
UNT
CUF
Or, after the "W" (east of the Mississippi)...
USS (there's a KUSS FM station)
can't think of any others at the moment.... or are there some callsigns that will never be assigned?
There is the former call letters of KJLL
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...all_hist.pl?Facility_id=9304&Callsign=KJLL-FM
I'm sure you'll like that.
forgot about that one xD
How about a few other suffixes, mostly in other countries...
SS (for a station in Pakistan)
OOB (China)
HIT (Canada or Sweden)
ICH (for a Chinese station)
LIT (Cuba)
OCK (Cuba)
UM or UMM (Portugal or western USA)
UNT (Portugal)
ICK (Germany)
UCK (France)
LL (Switzerland)
IZZ (Japan)
ISS (Netherlands)
T (Costa Rica)
And, for one on 666 kHz.... -ATN (a station in Sweden) or -EVL (Germany) or the aforementioned Switzerland -LL I bet if a religious owner got a station with that call and frequency, they'd probably apply for a frequency or call sign change before they even took to the air.
Can't think of any others at the moment, although I did have an imaginary idea about freakish propogation and poor sunrise/sunset timing. Possibly more details upon request, but basically a station serving a retirement community (with very high moral/politeness standards) by day accidentally does something on the air that kids used to be taught to say "excuse me" for. However, by the time the host says excuse me, the station has already switched to night pattern which is directional away from the community that had been listening (such that their groundwave circling the globe all the way to the community is stronger than their skywave and groundwave directly toward the community). At the same time another station in a different country and timezone switches to their daytime power, while playing some music or program with language that would NEVER be allowed in the USA, and because they have to use such high power to overcome terrible ground conductivity and a distant-from-COL transmitter site, it literally overloads radios at the retirement community. Add to that an adjacent-channel IBOC station that changes to their nighttime pattern (which blasts toward the community as well)....
SS (for a station in Pakistan)
OOB (China)
HIT (Canada or Sweden)
ICH (for a Chinese station)
LIT (Cuba)
OCK (Cuba)
UM or UMM (Portugal or western USA)
UNT (Portugal)
ICK (Germany)
UCK (France)
LL (Switzerland)
IZZ (Japan)
ISS (Netherlands)
T (Costa Rica)
And, for one on 666 kHz.... -ATN (a station in Sweden) or -EVL (Germany) or the aforementioned Switzerland -LL
I bet if a religious owner got a station with that call and frequency, they'd probably apply for a frequency or call sign change before they even took to the air. Can't think of any others at the moment, although I did have an imaginary idea about freakish propogation and poor sunrise/sunset timing. Possibly more details upon request, but basically a station serving a retirement community (with very high moral/politeness standards) by day accidentally does something on the air that kids used to be taught to say "excuse me" for. However, by the time the host says excuse me, the station has already switched to night pattern which is directional away from the community that had been listening (such that their groundwave circling the globe all the way to the community is stronger than their skywave and groundwave directly toward the community). At the same time another station in a different country and timezone switches to their daytime power, while playing some music or program with language that would NEVER be allowed in the USA, and because they have to use such high power to overcome terrible ground conductivity and a distant-from-COL transmitter site, it literally overloads radios at the retirement community. Add to that an adjacent-channel IBOC station that changes to their nighttime pattern (which blasts toward the community as well)....
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