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WDIA's HD off?

tomservo

tomservo

Has WDIA discontinued their HD? I was in Memphis all day today and the sidebands were gone. I thought they were gone a few weeks back when I tuned past 1070 from down here in Grenada, but assumed the distance made them too weak to hear.

Funny thing, I actually listened to WDIA more this trip than ever before because it seemed to sound better, even on that awful narrowband radio.
 
Zach said:
Did WDIA ever go down the AM stereo route? Being a heritage music station on AM would kinda benefit from that, at least back in the 80's.

All's I know is the music sounded horrible with the digital on.
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I don't THINK so, but I could be wrong. 680 did when it was Urban Top 40 WKDJ and after that when it was a WRVR clone and later oldies. It was Motorola C-QUAM and we did get it to sound pretty good, but the 680 array was pretty narrow so it could have been better. I also think WGSF 1210 might have been stereo when they first signed on in the early 80s.
 
WGSF was in AM stereo during their CCM era in the late 80's and early 90's I listened to them regularly, but I never had an AM stereo radio. I do remember them mentioning it being in stereo though.
 
anotherguy said:
WGSF was in AM stereo during their CCM era in the late 80's and early 90's I listened to them regularly, but I never had an AM stereo radio. I do remember them mentioning it being in stereo though.
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As a one-time employee I can confirm this. WGSF 1210 was AM Stereo in the Oldies era, through CCM and even during the CNN Headline period. Don't know what happened after it went Mexican.
 
uncle_al said:
anotherguy said:
WGSF was in AM stereo during their CCM era in the late 80's and early 90's I listened to them regularly, but I never had an AM stereo radio. I do remember them mentioning it being in stereo though.
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As a one-time employee I can confirm this. WGSF 1210 was AM Stereo in the Oldies era, through CCM and even during the CNN Headline period. Don't know what happened after it went Mexican.
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That's the station doing standards now, right? It wasn't in stereo last time I brought a radio up there.
 
1210 was stereo during the oldies days of Fun Radio 1210 GSF and the CCM days. It sounded pretty good also. Signal noisier then as the TX was farther out to the east in Arlington. It was almost no existent at night. At least now you can hear it over some of east and n/e parts of town
 
Michael said:
WDIA was not in HD at 5pm today.
WREC was (not that my radio will hold a lock on it).
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During a scan, my car radio will lock on the sideband channel, then when I hit scan again it sometimes skips over the actual channel and goes to the other sideband. I've got a portable that does this continually.

What a way to get people to listen, eh? ::)
 
I was attempting to listen to WREC AM in HD today in Bartlett. It was unlistenable. The radio kept switching. This less than 10 miles away from a 5 KW transmitter. AM HD is useless.
 
radiosaur said:
I was attempting to listen to WREC AM in HD today in Bartlett. It was unlistenable. The radio kept switching. This less than 10 miles away from a 5 KW transmitter. AM HD is useless.
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I often loose lock while the TX is in site (ie: on I-40)

WDIA does quite a bit better when its on.

I agree am HD is useless. I'd rather have the bandwith back and audio analog with AM Stereo. AM sounds like crap these days.
 
WDIA will have it's HD back on in a couple days. A bad capacitor in one of the ATU's is on order. The HD transmitter is not happy with an out of whack load. The old Nautel will work into almost anything.
 
Radar103 said:
WDIA will have it's HD back on in a couple days. A bad capacitor in one of the ATU's is on order. The HD transmitter is not happy with an out of whack load. The old Nautel will work into almost anything.
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Hmmmmm. My "source" told me I wasn't allowed to publish this information. What's a cazapiter?
 
A cazapiter is a device which will turn into a buzuterfly, after 5 or 6 time constants.
 
Sure, especially in RF work, to protect it from stray inzyducturance.
 
Does anybody have a "best guess" estimate of the total number of HD radios in Memphis? 100-200? More? Less?
 
I was present when Clear Channel bought 3 HD radios about three years ago. So far as I know, that's all they've ever bought...soooo
 
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