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Does anyone know why at random times, sometimes at the top of the hour, and other times just in the middle of a program, I hear W297-AD Williamsville on 930AM WBEN?
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At least in theory it should be W297AB.
It's a FM translator, operating on 107.3. A 55-watt FM station rebroadcasting the AM 930 signal.
FCC regulation 74.1283 requires the translator be identified three times a day -- between 7 & 9am; within 5 minutes of 1pm; and between 4 and 6pm.
(alternatively, it may be identified in Morse Code using a technology that can't be heard on ordinary FM radios. Hams -- and FCC inspectors -- can hear it)
WBEN has been making the trip down here to Nashville pretty regularly the last few days. I haven't heard the translator ID (since I haven't been listening before 6:00) but I have been hearing IDs for WTSS-HD2, a digital subchannel of 102.5 FM which also relays WBEN.
It's a FM translator, operating on 107.3. A 55-watt FM station rebroadcasting the AM 930 signal.
FCC regulation 74.1283 requires the translator be identified three times a day -- between 7 & 9am; within 5 minutes of 1pm; and between 4 and 6pm.
(alternatively, it may be identified in Morse Code using a technology that can't be heard on ordinary FM radios. Hams -- and FCC inspectors -- can hear it)
WBEN has been making the trip down here to Nashville pretty regularly the last few days. I haven't heard the translator ID (since I haven't been listening before 6:00) but I have been hearing IDs for WTSS-HD2, a digital subchannel of 102.5 FM which also relays WBEN.
Since it's a downtown transmitter, with decent coverage of the Elmwood area and Hipsterville, you'd think that they'd turn it back over to "Alternative 107.7". It sure would help their signal in the city, and it dwellings where urbanites might tune in. Ratings have shown that it doesn't mean squat to WBEN listeners.
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dand5780
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Thanks.
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dand5780
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I've been hearing it for over a year at least. I never knew what it was for though.
Don't know when Entercom switched it back, but yesterday (Nov 29) 107.3 was back simulcasting WLKK 107.7
(alternatively, it may be identified in Morse Code using a technology that can't be heard on ordinary FM radios. Hams -- and FCC inspectors -- can hear it).
What is this "technology" that allows hams to hear a translator's Morse Code ID?
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