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Strange situation with KHJS-LP

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AnyHuman

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After 3 days of dead air, 99.1 shut off their transmitter earlier. Then it came back up with the following station's audio.
http://barix.streamguys.net/barix_hi.m3u

The above link is the default stream for Barix boxes, devices some stations use to get Internet audio to their transmitters. Evidently KHJS-LP is having Internet problems and trying to fix it by resetting their device. Maybe their previous Internet host is no longer available or they just don't know what they're doing...
 
Update: KHJS is now once again the GenX Spanish Variety format it was before Monday. Apparently fixed now.
Shame though because the Spanish music does nothing for me. I liked some of what I heard on Barix radio, it's much better variety than Jack FM in my opinion. Oh well at least I can hear Barix online, and GenX I cannot find online, so there.

Audio wise only thing wrong with KHJS is it's mono, meaning the sound is all centered. Stereo sounds much, much better, but all the programming I've heard on 99.1 has been mono, even Barix Radio was mono, even though KHJS has a stereo signal. I wonder who their engineer is...
 
It went off earlier, then just came back on with dead air in the middle of the night! Someone either has a remote control and is messing with it, or they're currently at the tower site and have WAY too much time on their hands.
 
AnyHuman said:
It went off earlier, then just came back on with dead air in the middle of the night! Someone either has a remote control and is messing with it, or they're currently at the tower site and have WAY too much time on their hands.
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Almost all transmitter sites today are unattended, and operated by remote control from the studio or another control point. An authorized person, such as the station engineer, can even look at the transmitter metering and turn it on or off from a cellular phone. Remote metering also includes things like the heating or A/C, security, outside temperature, tower light monitoring, coaxial cable pressurization and the likes.
 
Someone just fixed it, sounds like they're trying to compete with 95.1 and 104.5 with their genre of music.
 
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The thing is that I'm almost positive 99.1 is working with Guel. At least that's what it looks like to me...
 
I can't stand mono. There's a station here in Denver that switched to mono recently. I skip them now. I figure it's either a mistake or an engineer thinks that it will extend their listenable coverage. I think that's an old way of thinking when newer tuners will do blending or some magic DSP to clean up the sound.

I was in SA just a few days ago. Did a bit of radio listening at night.
 
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