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Spanish pirate at 90.9 in New Britain (RCS, please take note)

Last night as I was playing taxi driver for my mother yet again, I was listening to WWUH "Culture Dogs" (8pm) and I was on rt 9. going north to get off at the Columbus Blvd. exit, about midway up the exit, I started getting what sounds like adjacent channel splash over the channel. I figured it to be someone with a strong XM or Sirius, so I tuned around and found a horrific noise that seemed to be focused more in the right channel, and centered about 90.9. I was unable to get any form of ID, but it was in Spanish, and seemed strongest in the downtown region in NB. I listened for a while and it seemed like the reason for the distortion was more the source audio used than some transmitter problem, and then about 8:30 they finished that program and started playing music, which was clear, balanced between l/r and (in my opinion) a bit undermodulated. I was on my way south on rt. 9 at this point (Berlin) and checked for adjacent channel problems, but they had vanished. About mid way through Cromwell, the station was overcome by other signals.

I am not a Spanish speaker, but I understand enough when spoken to be able to get an idea of what is going on, and the audio was just so bad I couldn't even tell what the topic of discussion was about.
 
OK, I'm at CCSU right now, and I was on rt9 about 8:20-8:30 to get here, so I checked out 90.9, and tonight the audio is better, not as loud as Sunday night and not as low either, except they are feeding levels still too hot into the transmitter, which has that typical sound something like a classic tube kit would do when audio input overload occurs.

L/R balance is still off, but as tonight was a music source again, it seems to be different than the other night, I'd say panned about 2/3rd to the right channel. Because they weren't as overloaded as they were the other night, I could understand a good amount of the content of both the music and the announcement when it happened.

They appear to be a hispanic Christian station and they ID as being on 90.9 (hey, alright, I got that one correct), the music I heard tonight could best be described as hispanic gospel.
 
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