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What's that noise on 92.7?

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Buckeyes2001

I have been hearing a signal from an unknown station on 92.7 that's obviously having techincal/audio issues. It's sounding like a sped-up jackhammer and the only station I can think of it to be on is the WKDD translator (W224CD). I live in Vermilion and work in Lorain and here 92.7 is a mix of 2 country stations from Canada but I can hear this other signal mixing in with them. Is anyone else noticing this on 92.7?
 
Air 1 moved from WKDD HD3 to HD2. Perhaps the translator is still tuned to the non existent HD3. (although if all HD receivers are the same it should have reverted to the main WKDD signal once the HD3 signal disappeared)
 
Maybe there were some weird tropo conditions affecting signal. Last night, I heard WXYT/Detroit clearly over WREO when I got off of work in Mentor. Once I got onto Rt.2 however, Star completely took out WXYT.
 
I live in Ashtabula county and I can not really listen to any of the 92.7 stations because not only are there the stations in Canada there is an Top 40 on 92.7 in Erie so for me when I tune into 92.7 I get a static mix of three stations.
 
This transmission is emanating from the 250-watt LPFM station (W224CD) on 92.7, licensed to EMF (the Air1 people). It broadcasts from a cell phone tower around W.11th Street near downtown Cleveland. The station used to be on 91.9 with only 10 watts, but changed frequency some weeks ago to 92.7 with 250 watts. They have an application to move to one of the TV towers in Parma, dropping power to about 99 watts because of the extra height, but they have not moved yet.

Sometime around 10 days ago, something went wrong (sounds like a satellite receiver locked up) and this noise has been transmitted ever since.

I understand that the EMF home office has been alerted (their local engineering stringer is either asleep or they don't have one), but still nothing fixed as of this date.

What might be happening is yet another Clear Channel arrangement --- like with 99.1 (99X) which was originally an EMF station --- for some kind of Clear Channel programming eventually fed on this frequency. They could be in the middle of some transition right now, so (possibly) no one cares.
 
I was tuning in to 92.7 and Air 1 was back on. It looks like it was fixed.

I think 106.1 will broadcast CC-related programming as I've heard WGAR simulcasted there.
 
HHH said:
This transmission is emanating from the 250-watt LPFM station (W224CD) on 92.7, licensed to EMF (the Air1 people). It broadcasts from a cell phone tower around W.11th Street near downtown Cleveland. The station used to be on 91.9 with only 10 watts, but changed frequency some weeks ago to 92.7 with 250 watts. They have an application to move to one of the TV towers in Parma, dropping power to about 99 watts because of the extra height, but they have not moved yet.

Sometime around 10 days ago, something went wrong (sounds like a satellite receiver locked up) and this noise has been transmitted ever since.

I understand that the EMF home office has been alerted (their local engineering stringer is either asleep or they don't have one), but still nothing fixed as of this date.

What might be happening is yet another Clear Channel arrangement --- like with 99.1 (99X) which was originally an EMF station --- for some kind of Clear Channel programming eventually fed on this frequency. They could be in the middle of some transition right now, so (possibly) no one cares.
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That location on that W11 cell phone tower is odd. As the station is licensed to Parma the signal does not even hit Parma with a good signal. That map I posted looks like the WBNX tower, home to nearly all the LPTV signals at one time or another.
 
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