I was 110 miles from WHAS and 175 miles from WLS this morning, WHAS is usually stronger at those distances but for a couple of hours this morning, it was about as strong as WKRD 790. Of course, by the time I got home to look at it on the R8 and longwire, it was screaming again. Anyone else notice this?
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WHAS weak on Saturday morning?
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BobOnTheJob said:
Over the last week, I have noticed they are very weak at times. On Thursday evening when all the storms came through, they were barely readable in Lexington. This is not normal. This morning, I was in Richmond, KY to give ham radio tests and they were again VERY weak with considerable noise on their signal. WKRD was much stronger at the time (around 10 AM this morning). Several nights ago, I found them OFF THE AIR at 1:30 AM. So, something is obviously going on with them.
KR4BD said:
I took it back to the dealership which is on a hill in Richmond and they said its normal. I said no its not. It's a 2010 corolla which the antenna is on the back window. It's too sensitive. A truck can behind me and it makes the stations worse. I'll mess with it and see if there is anything I can do.
jb_ky said:
Hmm...I have a 2000 Camry with a back glass antenna and a factory radio with amazing performance on both bands. The only downfall is a directional aspect of the antenna for FM but other than that it is good.
Watt Hairston predicted on this very site that as the warranty runs out on HD Radio generating equipment and GM's are faced with multi-thousand dollar repair estimates on equipment that is not producing ANY revenue for the bottom line, that the house of cards known as AM HD Radio will start to collapse in on itself. That prophecy continues to unfold.KR4BD said:
I noticed WHAS having a weak signal last Thursday morning on both my clock and car radios. I called and spoke to Scott Fitzgerald about the problem, telling him I thought the tower might have been hit with lightning from a storm the night before. He said he would pass the message along to the engineers.
I heard Terry Meiners this afternoon complaining about a listener stating the fact that the 840 signal was non-existant in Elizabethtown. Seems like the mighty has fallen!
I heard Terry Meiners this afternoon complaining about a listener stating the fact that the 840 signal was non-existant in Elizabethtown. Seems like the mighty has fallen!
There was a day when heads would have rolled for 5 seconds of dead air on a highly rated AM station, much less this. How things have changed.KyDXIn said:
IIRC 840's antenna had a "narrow" bandwidth and that was an issue with their HD. Could they be messing with the HD again? Isn't a lot of AM's "power" modulation which HD limits? I remember that at one of stations I worked at, lightning messed up the remote antenna amp meter at the base of the tower. * Could the box that is running the transmitter be adjusting the transmitter down being fed the wrong reading and "adjusting" the power the wrong way?
* This was pre 80 90 and we actually had to read the meters. I remember calling the station engineer one Sunday with no antenna current reading. He was "really glad to get woke up at 6AM on a Sunday" and said if the plate current and voltage were good (which they were) and I could pick up the station just make a note on the log about that he was notified and was "in search of repair a repair solution". It was fixed before 9AM with less than a 10 minute outage.
* This was pre 80 90 and we actually had to read the meters. I remember calling the station engineer one Sunday with no antenna current reading. He was "really glad to get woke up at 6AM on a Sunday" and said if the plate current and voltage were good (which they were) and I could pick up the station just make a note on the log about that he was notified and was "in search of repair a repair solution". It was fixed before 9AM with less than a 10 minute outage.
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