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Trouble at Rock Hill today?

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islanddxer

Around 11:30am today I was listening to Party 105.3 in Riverhead and the signal went dead, just static, for about 5 minutes. In addition to Party 105.3, 98.5 was also out, as well as 92.9 WEHM.
They all came back fairly soon, so it may have been a power outage. 92.9 WEHM came back on fine, but as usual the TMO (or is it JVC now?) group got screwed up. Party 105.3 came back with a stereo carrier but had terrible overmodulated mono audio, its been sounding like a tin can ever since, and I guess they are clueless since they haven't fixed it.
98.5 is in mono. Party 101.5 in Nassau sounds equally as bad since it broadcasts the 105.3 signal.
Anyone know what happened? I know folks talk highly of John C, but a good engineer would be over there right away and work on the problem. Sadly it seems this kind of pride is absent on most stations nowadays. WBAZ 102.5 is a good example of that, they have had their balance off for AGES.
Sounds like its just a matter of resetting the transmitters?
Of course they dont have generators when the power goes down..... ::)
I know, they are afraid to go into the "freaky woods" to fix the transmitter. Ugh...city ppl.
 
I think 96.1 and 103.9 also broadcast from that tower. Did anything happen to them?
I remember one day 2 summers ago, Party 105.3 was broadcasting static for several hours. The carrier was on, there was a stereo pilot, and static.
Their tower really isn't in the woods, it's right behind a residential neighborhood. There's a path leading right up to the tower that is wide enough to fit a vehicle.
 
There's another, shorter tower that's slightly south, on the other side of the street more in the middle of the residential neighborhood, I think thats the one where 96.1 and 103.9 broadcast from, because they were unaffected. Party 105 is still in mono audio with stereo carrier. Perhaps a power surge damaged their equipment?
 
Party 105's transmitter power is low enough that any good consumer UPS can keep it on the air during a short blackout.
 
Too bad JVC is so cheap they dont even want to buy that! This mono sounds horrible, it doesn't even sound like true mono, one channel out of the stereo image is being broadcasted, stereo carrier present, no stereo.
 
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