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WRTM 100.5 FM on the air in Jackson?

transmitter tests have already been performed, STL gear going in later this week. Doing IP over t1, equipment is in place, I'm going to turn it up thursday or saturday.
 
yes they are. Nothing set in stone yet but may be on the air as soon as 9/28. transmitter router, switch and audio codec going online tomorrow.
 
WRTM should come on the air in jackson and simultaneously shut down Port Gibson sometime around 6PM tomorrow.  We were over there today putting the finishing touches on everything and testing.  Some of you may have heard it on for a bit earlier this afternoon.  AT&T seems to have gotten the t1 circuit right, at least for the time being, we've left the audio link up over a week and have seen 0 dropped frames so far.

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jboyd said:
Good luck on the PTEK...JBI
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I second that... BIG time. I purchased a brand new 4kW PTEK at the end of 2009 and it has been just great. To PTEK's credit - they've actually replaced the entire transmitter two separate times and serviced broken components on nine other occasions. Right now, I'm on PTEK transmitter mark 3 since August and crossing my fingers. The other units were able to stay on the air at full 100% power a full 77% of the time.

--- Casual Observer
 
Only been on the air for 20 mins to an hour here and there over the last few days testing. Myself along with his regular engineer both recommended strongly against the ptek but it showed up anyways, hope it does well.

I will say I've been quite happy with the tieline bridge-it units. Much more user friendly than the Comrex BRIC-Link I've worked with elsewhere. I'm hoping good ol ma bell can keep that t1 circuit up and going until backup arrangements can be made. I'm planning to bring in a 768k dsl connection, bring it to the cisco 2620, do an ipsec tunnel back to the studio to their comcast connection there, setup OSPF and assign the vpn a higher cost than T1 for a near seamless failover. Once setup and working, should be less than 1 sec. failover if the t1 fails.

I should clarify that I was just brought in on the project to help with the IP part of this since it was the most economical solution to get audio out there due to no good path for 950mhz STL.
 
I live in north Jackson and it comes in really good in the car and my Sony Walkman. Not so good on my clock radio (but it's not a very strong radio).
 
Another rim shot into Jackson...As a former CE there 30+ years ago, I cannot understand the excitement about this..especially driving thru the city and observing...I lived (A long time ago) along
Beasley Road...not the most desirable location anymore....Go ahead...JBI
 
There are already too many stations in Jackson. Thats why you have a handful of good stations and the rest are just bottom feeders with hardly any live content. Basically an Mp3 player in a closet. If I remember correctly theyre were only a handful of actual FM stations in Jackson. 94.7, 95.5, 96.3, 99.7, and 102.9 nearly every other station either moved or boosted power from some other city. Leaving many smaller towns with no local FM station to advertise on anymore.
 
Well said, flytrap...BUT..."Hope springs eternal from the heart of man"...and Little else. Regards...JBI
 
flytrap said:
There are already too many stations in Jackson. Thats why you have a handful of good stations and the rest are just bottom feeders with hardly any live content. Basically an Mp3 player in a closet. If I remember correctly theyre were only a handful of actual FM stations in Jackson. 94.7, 95.5, 96.3, 99.7, and 102.9 nearly every other station either moved or boosted power from some other city. Leaving many smaller towns with no local FM station to advertise on anymore.
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I believe that I may be able to offer a different perspective here. All of the commercial 100kW stations are owned by large regional or national operators - so I'm not sure how much innovation exists there - while all four of the Class A FM's (93.5, 97.7, 100.5, 103.9) are run by independent single-station operators.

WRBJ 97.7 FM and WRTM 100.5 FM do not have studio locations in their city of license, but:

WHJT 93.5 FM's city of license is Clinton, and their studio is in Clinton.

WYAB 103.9 FM's city of license is Flora, and our studio is in Flora.

The Class A's are batting .500 in that regard, so there are people trying to serve both their community and the larger market.

--- Casual Observer
 
Will 100.5 now call itself a jackson area station? from the coverage map on radio-locator it doesn't get into vicksburg or port gibson anymore. Maybe they should have kept WRTM AM to fill in the coverage they lost in the FM's move. Where will the studio and office be?
 
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