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WJRZ & it's 107.9 Translator

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I didn't compare the 100.7 translator to 100.1, but has anyone noticed that 107.9 is a good 8 seconds ahead of the main 100.1 on-air signal?

Seems like someone should delay 107.9 to match the HD-delayed 100.1. The 107.9 listeners have quite an advantage when trying to win contests and stuff.
 
Hmm.. interesting ...
I can't comment on 107.9 because I can't get it up here in Toms River, but as far as I know, 100.7 is timed correctly to 100.1 ..
 
I thought a translator had to be fed from an "off air" signal?
How could it be 8 seconds ahead of the off air feed? haha
Shades of Jukebox Radio ? :eek:
 
A "fill-in" translator, which is within the protected contour of the main station, can be fed any way desired. In this case the translator is at WJRZ's studio site, and is getting a direct feed from down the hall.
 
The "true-time" 107.9 signal served a second purpose while I was there: it allowed me to keep working on news as needed, yet still hear the cues to go down the hall and join my partner in the control room. This was true pre-HD as well, since when I first joined the morning show, we took our calls live and operated on a delay anyway.

Anita
 
Those callers were dead.
How could they be live?

And remember, you had two partners, partner.
BE BIG!
Bud Abbott
 
The 107.9 translator is fed directly from the studio - and depending on if the profanity delay is enabled or not - it is either 10 seconds delayed or zero. The W264AM translator is fed post HD audio, so its either 9 or 19 seconds delayed depending on if the profanity delay is enabled or not, same as WJRZ.
 
I wonder if they could have just skipped the expense of an STL and fed WJRZ 100.1 with the translator.
 
Nick said:
I wonder if they could have just skipped the expense of an STL and fed WJRZ 100.1 with the translator.
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Two things - 1, WJRZ broadcasts in HD, and relaying a analog FM signal would defeat the purpose of having HD. #2, someone who felt like being a bit nefarious could rig up a pirate TX, set it to 107.9, and park in Waretown and "take over" WJRZ.
 
VeteranPD said:
Thanks for putting that idea out there. Don't you work for WJRZ?
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Perhaps you should brush aside the cataracts... he said if there was NO STL then that could be a unfortunate situation that surfaced. Apparently the 100.1 xmtr isn't fed that way so its a moot point.

VeteranPD are your REAL initials "PT"?? Makes me wonder...in the words of the late Eddie Rabbit I have some "Suspicion."

;)
 
You have so many stations that can't be heard within the thick walls of its studio. Why should WJRZ be special enough for a translator that plays the same programming 8 seconds sooner?
Would be better to relay a Philly station in that location.
 
Why would a station with a translator legally licensed for "fill in service" put another station on it?
They are only taking advantage of a vacant frequency that was available for a legal usage.
It's only going to get worse, they have a construction permit to take it to 250 watts. The only
thing that looks fishy, is the current license and construction permit both state it uses an "off air"
feed. That is untrue, since the off air signal is 8 seconds later. Time to drop a dime to the FCC!
 
Nick said:
You have so many stations that can't be heard within the thick walls of its studio. Why should WJRZ be special enough for a translator that plays the same programming 8 seconds sooner?
Would be better to relay a Philly station in that location.
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Because when tropo kicks in during the summer, 100.1 gets smashed to bits by lovely class B signals from the south/southwest. Thus the translator on 107.9 in Manahawkin, and the 100.7 translator in TR to address building penetration issues as well as tropo reception issues.

And yes, I do work part time for WJRZ/Greater Media NJ.
 
When there's tropo, 107.9 gets killed by WEBE 108 and 100.7 gets killed by WZXL. 100.1 seems to be helped by tropo, I've heard it on Long Island.
 
aren't the translators also in TR and manahawkin in case of an emergency at oyster creek that could potentially knock 100.1 off the air? the main transmitter is literally next to the power plant.

there were some good conditions saturday night... 100.1 was coming in like a local in Matawan, Q 105 from Maryland was strong, all Philly and AC's sounded amazing. Couldn't get z-100 or Fresh 102.7 at all...
 
myke25 said:
aren't the translators also in TR and manahawkin in case of an emergency at oyster creek that could potentially knock 100.1 off the air? the main transmitter is literally next to the power plant.
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The main transmitter is not next to the power plant; it's south of there by a few miles. The transmitter is in Waretown, and Oyster Creek is in Forked River. The main purpose for the translators, I was told, was to provide LBI and sections of downtown Toms River with an opportunity to actually hear the station.
 
the transmitter's off of volunteer way near the woods surrounding the power plant on the border of forked river and waretown, slightly south of bay parkway. it'd still make sense to have something to the north and south, in any event oyster creek acts up.

just out of curiosity, why is WOBM the designated station for oyster creek emergencies?
 
myke25 said:
just out of curiosity, why is WOBM the designated station for oyster creek emergencies?
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WJRZ isn't the primary.
The main station is WRAT, then WJLK, WOBM-FM and WJRZ on FM (in that order),
and WADB and WOBM (AM) and Marine Channel 16 ... the reason for WRAT is it's
farther away.

In South Jersey, for Salem/Hope Creek Nuke Plant, it's WENJ-FM 97.3 and WJKS, 101.7 ...
 
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