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traveler info radio

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In Central Florida for several years there have been traveler info radio on 1300 am posted. It has never materialized. What gives???
 
Maybe it's only used for emergencies?

They have a lot of signs up on the highways around our area, but they're used for only emergencies and Silver/Amber Alerts and such.
 
tanner said:
In Central Florida for several years there have been traveler info radio on 1300 am posted. It has never materialized. What gives???
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I saw signs advertising it when I was down there this summer. I remember when it was on 1680 - we could hear it very well in Dallas every night. Then a gospel blaster signed on in Louisiana and drowned it out.

It crossed my mind that a huge nighttime skywave signal out of Florida like that may have generated at least some tourism dollars, and you could stay up to the minute on travel conditions, deals, etc before you even left home. Moving it to 1300 - a marginal signal that barely makes it out of Central Brevard County - was a dumb move.
 
I check the frequency all the time when I travel by the signs. There has never been a signal. Also, when the signs first went up they were 1680. Then Orlando signed ion a regular station on 1680 and the signs changed to 1300. There is a station on 1300 on Cocoa.
 
They never were TIS's. Both 1300 and 1680 are owned by Rama Communications. These signs went up years agom when 1680 was still English and 1300 briefly ran long tourist-oriented looping spots. There were even billboards IIRC at one time on I-4, in the WDW area.
 
Beats me, I've wondered the very same thing for years. They might have been "paid" for by Rama, like the Interstate exit signs are that indicate what hotels, restaurants etc. are at the upcoming exit. I'd like to have one of the signs for the garage wall!
 
I wish they would pull them all off in the Chicago area. Even if they were stronger, the audio is cut off about 1.5 khz, and modulation is so low, they are just about worthless, except as interference.
With traffic info available so many places on comm and non comm stations, and linked GPS nav systems, they are pretty much obsolete.
I guess they're useful to cover my pt 15 so it'll only go 2-3 blocks. :(
Then there's the endless loop city/village info stations, as if you couldn't find the number for the town hall in the phone book. ::)
They seem to have poor audio by default, too.
 
Yeah I agree Tom, it does seem like the usefulness window of TIS stations was only a few years there where it was cost-effective to start up and before it was usurped by newer technologies. Plus, the cities running stations make the stations unlistenable audio- and content-wise.
 
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