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What happened to WHWH?
- Thread starter jeffryan
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Did their computer crash or did they get hit by lightning? I heard them on the air as recently as the other night with their Radio Ted Format. (Must've been Wednesday or Thursday because Friday night's I listen to The Radio Racket). They had a very staticy signal up here in Southington, Connecticut, but it was clear enough to hear Paul Walker's voice saying Radio Ted and 1350 AM and WHWH Princeton-Trenton. I also picked up a faint trace of them a few weeks ago in King of Prussia, PA when I was there for my in-studio apperence on The Radio Racket.
WHWH is solid in North Plainfield w/their continued "stunting" Radio Ted format. In this incarnation, their signal is better than it ever was during their Herb Hobler years when it was difficult to lift them out of the sauce. Nighttimes here, they were wiped out by York, PA amongst others. Current nighttime signal (if they are on the air past sunset, is inaudible here).
What I'm hearing is likely consistent with a non-DA 500 watt to 1 kw signal, although don't know where, precisely, their antenna farm is located these days -- useta be six sticks in Hopewell when I worked for 'em some 38 years ago! What they appear to be doing would be consistent with setting monitor points for a planned directional pattern.
What I'm hearing is likely consistent with a non-DA 500 watt to 1 kw signal, although don't know where, precisely, their antenna farm is located these days -- useta be six sticks in Hopewell when I worked for 'em some 38 years ago! What they appear to be doing would be consistent with setting monitor points for a planned directional pattern.
One of the voices heard on WHWH, Paul Walker sent me this information about the station:
Stations that are directional may request a STA (Special Temporary Authority) from the FCC to operate non directionally, which is what WHWH 1350 is doing in this case.
When the FCC grants a Non Directional STA, they usually give the stations 25 percent power, therefore.... WHWH is operating on a single stick with 1250 Watts day and night.
"Radio Ted=Timeless Entertainment Device" is a product of Chief Engineer Neal Newman and runs on a computer at the transmitter site.
Here are 2 short 30 second airchecks of the station encoded at 64K Mono.
http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/radioted1.mp3
http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/radioted2.mp3
Stations that are directional may request a STA (Special Temporary Authority) from the FCC to operate non directionally, which is what WHWH 1350 is doing in this case.
When the FCC grants a Non Directional STA, they usually give the stations 25 percent power, therefore.... WHWH is operating on a single stick with 1250 Watts day and night.
"Radio Ted=Timeless Entertainment Device" is a product of Chief Engineer Neal Newman and runs on a computer at the transmitter site.
Here are 2 short 30 second airchecks of the station encoded at 64K Mono.
http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/radioted1.mp3
http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/radioted2.mp3
Thanks, Marc, for the improved clarity on status of WHWH. Some fine tuning this evening (after sunset) disclosed that they were audible in North Plainfield at approx. equal strength to their York, Pennsylvania co-channel. That 1.25 kw power you quoted sounds appropriate to the signal they're delivering into this part of Somerset County.
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Neal
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ok guys here is the scoop..
WHWH is operating From its old 6 tower site in hopewell.
The array was damaged. At this time WHWH is Running under an STA for 1.25Kw
on a single tower as a non-Directional. I have been working on it between the Buildout of
the new WNSW site.
reply to Jeffryan
Yesterday I spent all day at WHWH,
I had the station off Most of the day trying to
repair the Non-D tower so it will work in the Directional pattern.
WHWH is operating From its old 6 tower site in hopewell.
The array was damaged. At this time WHWH is Running under an STA for 1.25Kw
on a single tower as a non-Directional. I have been working on it between the Buildout of
the new WNSW site.
reply to Jeffryan
Yesterday I spent all day at WHWH,
I had the station off Most of the day trying to
repair the Non-D tower so it will work in the Directional pattern.
WHWH has an awesome signal in central NJ for only 1.25 kW.
It reminds me of when 1170 WBRW came back on the air, with a 243-watt non-directional signal that is better than they ever were with 500 watts directional (4 towers).
It reminds me of when 1170 WBRW came back on the air, with a 243-watt non-directional signal that is better than they ever were with 500 watts directional (4 towers).
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