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WLAN 1390 fried?

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paradioguy

Anyone try and listen to 1390 lately? Every few secounds you can here a very loud crunch sound,then the volume goes down and slowely goes back up. It is constent. The station mise well shut down, you cant possibly listen to it for any period of time. Cheap channel needs to put some money into 1390 and fix it,or shut it down and reycle the pieces.
 
I've noticed that crunching interruption too, and after a couple of days I began thinking "why don't they fix it!" I wonder if anyone in charge has even noticed it. How often do you think they check the AM? Really.

I listen to 1390 occasionally on my afternoon drive home from Lancaster. (Along with XPN, TPA, RVV, YCR, the X, RTI and 960 WHYL - I have eclectic musical tastes.) 1390 airs a syndicated standards/pop oldies format. The music mix is good, but the guy in the afternoon is awful.
 
WLAN was acting up on the 28th (Tuesday) while I was in Lancaster. Guess their engineering staff (all 1 of them) is taking care of 20 stations over a 50 mile area now, if theres even one left!
 
It is an STL path problem. What works on paper does not always work in real life. Possible fixes are phone lines to the site or a dual hop system from the studios to FM tower and then a second hop down to the AM site. Either way it will cost money. The engineer's hands may be tied.
 
It seems the four of us who care about this can rest easy. The crunching problem seems to be gone from 1390. Not only that, but the audio seems to be cleaner and brighter than it had been, although that could be just my imagination, running away with me.
 
John, I understand the problem is somewhat temperature related. On days it is warmer, the noise may return. With Tim Portzline blown out of Harrisburg, will the Lancaster engineer end up making regular drives up 283 to help out in Harrisburg?
 
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