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Savannah- 106.1 signal issues in W. Chatham Co.

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upstate29651

It's not atmospheric.

Daily, 106.1 sounds terrible in W. Chatham County, full of dropouts & static. It actually sounds better in northern McIntosh county, well outside of it's protected contour.

Anyone know of issues at WFXH?

G
 
I don't know of anything going on at that tower. I drive by it daily and don't see anything odd going on. It's out just east of Bluffton, SC and is accessible from a subdivision road. Nothing new I can see...

I would imagine it may have to do with the huge amounts of RF out in those parts. Several tall towers with close to 1,000,000 watts of radio power coming out of them. Not counting the gazillions of watts from all the TV stations out there too.

Also, 95.5 is 10.6 MHz from 106.1. I'm no radio engineer, but I know that 10.6 is a FM harmonic frequency and might have a good deal to do with it. Mr. Combs could confirm this but I know 95.5 is out in west Chatham on one of those towers.

Radio-X
(needs a radio job...telecommuting gets boring ;D)
 
Well, 10.7 MHz is an intermediate frequency generated inside FM receivers, but I'm not sure the difference between the two transmitting frequencies has anything to do with it. You're probably closer to the reason with your observation about there being so many antennae being fed by powerful transmitters. I think, though, that any explanation must include the fact that the area is so built up. There is so much metal up in the air which affects the signals in ways I certainly do not understand - everything from steel framing to overhead power lines to towers of every type and description. Signals are being reflected, deflected and jammed by all of these structures, as well as by the increased electromagnetic noise in our world.
 
99.5 and 106.1 are not harmonics of each other, so that would not be the problem. I was able to pick up 106.1 sitting right underneath the 95.5 tower yesterday afternoon. You might have been experiencing "picket fencing" which just means that there was a lot of intermodulation going on in the area you happened to be in. Also, there has been a lot of tropospheric ducting up and down the east coast in the last couple of months, so it might have just been interfering with that frequency on that particular day.
 
WOAH 106.3 in Glennville has been coming out stronger than normal lately Could that be interfering with 106.1 Usually 106.1 Bleeds over to 106.3 to where it's unlistenable in Richmond Hill. But Lately I have no issues hearing 106.3 in Richmond hill.
 
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