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WSCR With IBlOCk Off Last Night

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BRNout

Last night, at around 11:30, I noticed that WSCR had their Soviet jammer off and also appeared to be operating on lower power. As a result, I was able to pull in WFAN New York - a little faint, but clear - and a station playing oldies on 680. I suspect that it may have been WINR Binghamton but it faded too often to confirm. During critical hours, it used to interfere with WRKO in central NH and actually beams more of it's mighty 500 watt signal this way.

WSCR was definitely running less than their 50 kw signal last night because it did not slop over onto 660 and 680 in the way that (the usually weaker) WLS does with its adjacents. In other words, I didn't have to null it to hear other adjacent stations.

Did anyone else hear anything interesting around 670 last night?
 
The ibiquity box has a habit of tripping over its own feet. They probably had to wipe its nose and put a band-aid on its little boo-boo.
"Now go back outside and play, and try to stay out of trouble."
 
Darn! We need an email/text alert system when DX opportunities arise (AM, FM, TV, LW or Pirates)

Sometimes when The Score's Digital Fuzz is off I get KFEQ St. Joseph, MO and WCTT Corbin, KY on 680.
It's been several years but I have heard KTNN on 660 from Window Rock, AZ when SCR's Binary Fuzz was off.
 
BRNout said:
Last night, at around 11:30, I noticed that WSCR had their Soviet jammer off and also appeared to be operating on lower power. As a result, I was able to pull in WFAN New York - a little faint, but clear - and a station playing oldies on 680. I suspect that it may have been WINR Binghamton but it faded too often to confirm. During critical hours, it used to interfere with WRKO in central NH and actually beams more of it's mighty 500 watt signal this way.

WSCR was definitely running less than their 50 kw signal last night because it did not slop over onto 660 and 680 in the way that (the usually weaker) WLS does with its adjacents. In other words, I didn't have to null it to hear other adjacent stations.

Did anyone else hear anything interesting around 670 last night?
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Darn, if I had only known I could've tried for KNBR last night.
 
The thought had come to mind, but all I had with me was my Eton E100 (because it's small and turns off automatically). It's okay, but certainly not my best MW receiver by any means.

On that radio, it sounded like Binghamton (oldies) faintly on 680 and not much else. But, it's possible that a better radio and antenna setup could have pulled something more interesting like KNBR out of the mush.
 
gr8oldies said:
Does WCTT play oldies?
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According to their website http://www.wctt.com/wcttam/ they might be (trouble is, the website has a start page and then it doesn't go to another page nor can you click on the logo and go anywhere else, so part of their website is messed up &@!*&%$), it may be "nostalgia" (because usually that is what is meant by "memories") and that's what I have heard them doing (within the last 3 months) when I have caught WCTT...radio-locator.com says they're talk (?)
 
Same problem with WCTT-FM 107.3 website, can't click on the FM station's logo despite the message by the cursor saying "click to enter T-107". The arrow doesn't turn into a hand.
 
They were hash free for part of the evening, I got to drive 45 minutes Friday night listening to WSM crystal clear until WSCR turned on the hash about 9:30 central. It was great while it lasted.
 
Tom Wells said:
They were hash free for part of the evening, I got to drive 45 minutes Friday night listening to WSM crystal clear until WSCR turned on the hash about 9:30 central. It was great while it lasted.
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Wish they'd turn it off permanently.
 
radioman148 said:
Tom Wells said:
They were hash free for part of the evening, I got to drive 45 minutes Friday night listening to WSM crystal clear until WSCR turned on the hash about 9:30 central. It was great while it lasted.
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Wish they'd turn it off permanently.
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I wish it would go up in a puff of acrid black smoke, and make WSCR angry at ibiquity.
That would be justice.
 
radioman148 said:
Tom Wells said:
They were hash free for part of the evening, I got to drive 45 minutes Friday night listening to WSM crystal clear until WSCR turned on the hash about 9:30 central. It was great while it lasted.
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Wish they'd turn it off permanently.
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Wow, I second that one! ;D

IBOC on AM is a failure and the sooner that the likes of CBS radio accept it, the better. It's okay on FM for now, though full-powered digital sidebands will really muck up that band too - if they get the 10x increase that they're asking for.

Checked 670 at around 10:30 last night and it was hash-arama around WSCR, as usual. WLS was a little weak on and off for some reason. Well, weaker than usual. On 880, I didn't even have to null them out last night - the channel was clear of them. And, WCBS was coming in quite well at that hour - you could listen to it sans interference from WLS. The French CBC station from Toronto on 860 was also coming in pretty well, but not as well as WCBS.

Went hunting for the mythical KFI, but got a half-decent signal from Iowa Public Radio AGAIN. That's what I usually get here, though often it's tough to hear.
 
All Chi-town AMs should be required to turn off the I-CRAP
at least by sunset in Salt Lake City...or Grapevine, Texas. ;)

(You old-timers should get the reference.)
 
Tom Wells said:
Wish they'd turn it off permanently.
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Agreed - turn off IBlOCk permanente!!!
The current administration in Washington should tell the IBlOCk "narrowcasters"
that using IBlOCk transmitters makes the "carbon footprint" too large!!!
 
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