Hopefully it broke & there's no money in the budget to fix it. 10AM today, 830 was quiet & 850 had something off in the distance. Now if we could just get WCCO's bee hive to go silent...WHAS has audible hiss in the background 30 miles from their 50KW transmitter. That ain't right.
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WHAS IBOC IS OFF!
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stormy01 said:
They're all bad Stormy - WHO and KDKA carpetbomb us with buzz too, thus making WBZ frequently unlistenable in suburban Chicago. Basically, the zone between 1000 and 1100 is a nighttime buzzsaw everywhere in the northeastern 1/4 of the USA and in eastern Canada. And yes, WCCO is a pest too. The CBS Radio stations seem to blast the buzz with a little more authority than everyone else. They're probably doing what they can to push the envelope when it comes to this failed IBOC technology.
BRNout said:
Turn them all off--we demand it!
I was wondering...didn't WHAS turned off the IBOC earlier this year? Right now it's quieter on 830 with both WCCO and Winston-Salem, NC's WTRU and on 850 Cleveland's WKNR and a couple of other stations, all being heard at the same time. If WHAS did turn on the IBLOCK, I didn't notice it. I'm hearing WCCO fairly well here in VA while writing this.
Being 80 miles from WHAS, I scan the dial pretty often...I think WHAS' buzzmitter been on until recently. Last night around midnight, KOA was in clearly in central Indiana...been a long time since that's happened.ddsparxx said:
Thank You Watt & Thank You Jesus!!!!Watt Hairston said:
Watt Hairston said:
That's great news.
I didn't ID the stations, but I knew one of them is WKNR, and the other two, I am sure, the second station is WTAR and the third could be KOA, the weakest of the three. Or the third station could be WKGE in Johnstown, PA, 10 kW at night, but with the kind of the directional pattern it has, I would doubt it.
ddsparxx said:
Do you get Chicago on 1160?
ddsparxx said:
Can you still hear it at night with their new nighttime pattern?
ddsparxx said:
Yes, they're shooting 50KW north now at night.
I visited the folks in Lexington Memorial Day and brought along my Sony HD radio (purchased on closeout for $40) to see what I could receive. I was interested in WHAS giving the concept the benefit of the doubt. My parents live in the Southwest part of Lexington about 65 miles from the WHAS transmitter site. I had full signal strength and a flashing HD light and a couple of very brief moments of HD audio. My dad commented HD radio was like AM stereo. I commented, "No, at this distance you could hear WHAS in AM stereo."
I'm off to Louisville tomorrow and will have to see if fidelity has returned to WHAS on my wideband AM Stereo Delco car radio. During Ibuz it was hard to tell the difference between the phone calls and the host.
I'm off to Louisville tomorrow and will have to see if fidelity has returned to WHAS on my wideband AM Stereo Delco car radio. During Ibuz it was hard to tell the difference between the phone calls and the host.
I think I was being too hasty in replying when I said "Yes, I did" in reply #14. At that time I heard a little bit of WYLL along with WOBM in Lakewood Township, NJ, WVNJ in Oakland, NJ (northern NJ) and WODY in Martinsville, VA (near the NC border), and and maybe a couple of other stations that is taking a long time to identify. Hope this clears things up.
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