Delay is a must have for almost any station these days, but it turns out that the delay times vary greatly from station to station.
For example, you're east of the Rockies and listening to Coast to Coast AM, and you just missed the exact day and time that Mars is supposed to collide with Earth, and you need to know this information so you will know when to pack your bags.
So, for some strange reason (which will become a future C2CAM topic), you are listening to 710/KEEL, Shreveport, LA. If you quickly turn to 1040/WHO or 1510/WLAC, you can catch it because of their delays..
But, you didn't make it in time, so you can flip over to 890/WLS because of their slightly longer delay.
But, you STILL missed it, so you can tune to 1100/WTAM and hear it again.
But, you didn't get the whole story, so you go directly to 840/WHAS to take advantage of a still longer delay.
However, yes - same story - and you're getting tired of jumping all over the dial to chase stations with longer delays. You need stations close to each other on the dial.
No problem! The ones with the next three with progressively longer delays (in order) are:
1210/WPHT,
1190/WOWO and
1200/WOAI.
It is then that you realize you could have gone from 710/KEEL to 1200/WOAI and gotten a repeat of two or three paragraphs because of WOAI's longgggggg delay.
(Now, I have found 800/CLKW, and some regionals, 630, 940, 1330, 1370 to be in there, too, but I haven't been able to pick them up well enough to put them in order with the rest...)
(I also haven't been able to TIME the delays yet; haven't had the time...)
Maybe you can help out... Set your presets and go from the shortest to longest delay. (It's kinda fun.) You can add more stations and insert them into proper order. The ones I have so far:
710/KEEL - shortest delay
1040/WHO & 1510/WLAC (seem to have the same delay)
890/WLS
1100/WTAM
840/WHAS
1210/WPHT
1190/WOWO
1200/WOAI - longest delay
Thanx for helping out; I still need to know when to pack my bags...
For example, you're east of the Rockies and listening to Coast to Coast AM, and you just missed the exact day and time that Mars is supposed to collide with Earth, and you need to know this information so you will know when to pack your bags.
So, for some strange reason (which will become a future C2CAM topic), you are listening to 710/KEEL, Shreveport, LA. If you quickly turn to 1040/WHO or 1510/WLAC, you can catch it because of their delays..
But, you didn't make it in time, so you can flip over to 890/WLS because of their slightly longer delay.
But, you STILL missed it, so you can tune to 1100/WTAM and hear it again.
But, you didn't get the whole story, so you go directly to 840/WHAS to take advantage of a still longer delay.
However, yes - same story - and you're getting tired of jumping all over the dial to chase stations with longer delays. You need stations close to each other on the dial.
No problem! The ones with the next three with progressively longer delays (in order) are:
1210/WPHT,
1190/WOWO and
1200/WOAI.
It is then that you realize you could have gone from 710/KEEL to 1200/WOAI and gotten a repeat of two or three paragraphs because of WOAI's longgggggg delay.
(Now, I have found 800/CLKW, and some regionals, 630, 940, 1330, 1370 to be in there, too, but I haven't been able to pick them up well enough to put them in order with the rest...)
(I also haven't been able to TIME the delays yet; haven't had the time...)
Maybe you can help out... Set your presets and go from the shortest to longest delay. (It's kinda fun.) You can add more stations and insert them into proper order. The ones I have so far:
710/KEEL - shortest delay
1040/WHO & 1510/WLAC (seem to have the same delay)
890/WLS
1100/WTAM
840/WHAS
1210/WPHT
1190/WOWO
1200/WOAI - longest delay
Thanx for helping out; I still need to know when to pack my bags...
