wttm

[Neal]

I find it Interesting that there is more talk On the phlly board than here
about the New WTTM playing the New format.. its still a New Jersey station.
Im sitting in my living room with a cheapo Sony Walkman and Ejoying it From the Jamesburg area.
The station is still in Testing mode But its Up and running
Its Not the Jack Format Its not the BEN format
Its New Jerseys Radio T.E.D Format( Timeless Entertainment Device)
You Never know whats going to Play Next

LOL remmber Max Headroom? how about H.A.L From 2001 a space oddessy
Well T.E.D. is my take Of both of them.. T.E.D is that Old radio sitting on the shelf in the Closet calling You out to hear stuff that rarely gets radio play.
You never Know what your going to hear..
If you like what you hear. Email US at [email protected]
Neal-CE WTTM

 

[westlife]

> I find it Interesting that there is more talk On the phlly
> board than here
> about the New WTTM playing the New format.. its still a New
> Jersey station.
> Im sitting in my living room with a cheapo Sony Walkman and
> Ejoying it From the Jamesburg area.
> The station is still in Testing mode But its Up and running

Today, 1680 WTTM was very weak but still audible on my car radio in Bridgewater, NJ, ironically right next to the transmitter site of 1170 WWTR, where WTTM's former South Asian format is now being aired from.

I've also heard WTTM on my tuner at home in Warren Township, with a clear mono signal, but near sunset time the skywaves from distant stations on 1680 and 1690 kHz start to wipe it out.

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[Neal]

Thats because today thanksgiving I was running the station only at 1 kw
Tomorrow(friday) It should Be back at 10kw
I am having an Issue with getting the Harris CQuam exciter to drive the BE transmitter. The Harris DX 10 only Needed 4v P-P Of CQuam to Run in stereo.
The BE requires 5 V p-p... I am trying to find out from Harris if there are components that I can Change to raise the RF output to 5 V p-p
So I can Run again in AM Stereo....
Here is the catch.. If I use the internal Stereo board for the BE. I cannot Run the IBOC exciter. in order to switch Between HD and Stereo I would have To manually pull the Stereo card. I wish BE would have made a rack mounted Stereo card To solve this issue.. I hope I can get the Harris AMS-1 to work.
so for now its MONO..
> Today, 1680 WTTM was very weak but still audible on my car
> radio in Bridgewater, NJ, ironically right next to the
> transmitter site of 1170 WWTR, where WTTM's former South
> Asian format is now being aired from.
>
> I've also heard WTTM on my tuner at home in Warren Township,
> with a clear mono signal, but near sunset time the skywaves
> from distant stations on 1680 and 1690 kHz start to wipe it
> out.
>

 

[westlife]

> I am having an Issue with getting the Harris CQuam exciter
> to drive the BE transmitter. The Harris DX 10 only Needed 4v
> P-P Of CQuam to Run in stereo.
> The BE requires 5 V p-p... I am trying to find out from
> Harris if there are components that I can Change to raise
> the RF output to 5 V p-p
> So I can Run again in AM Stereo....

According to Harris' spec sheet, its RF output is already "Fixed TTL level 5 V into 50 ohm load"... have you tried hooking it up as-is to see if it plays well with the B.E.?

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[Neal]

NO Really!!!!!!!

LOL Yes I have tried it already and the specs say 5V but the reality is that Its giving me 4 V.... Checked it with a Silly scope. Actually the BE needs 5.5V
but I didnt want to go there. Its on the threshold Of driving but just not Enough. I want my DX-10 Back. Because of the Rush to get Built B4 the CP ran out. there was no 3 phase at the site and limited space in the building along with Being IBOC ready they chose the BE transmitter. Personally I would love to see them install 3 phase with the New building ,and get the DX-10 Go back online from this site, and deal with making the Mod's to make it IBOC when that Time Comes.or switching Between the BE for IBOC during the day and the DX-10 at night with AM Stereo. This way there is a 10kw backup instead of a 1kw harris or a 5kw BE.



> According to Harris' spec sheet, its RF output is already
> "Fixed TTL level 5 V into 50 ohm load"... have you tried
> hooking it up as-is to see if it plays well with the B.E.?
>
http://www.broadcast.harris> .com/product_portfolio/product_details.asp?sku=WWWAMSG1CQUAM
>

 

[k2pg]

> Here is the catch.. If I use the internal Stereo board for
> the BE. I cannot Run the IBOC exciter.

Do us all a favor and DON'T go IBOC. The analog part of an AM IBOC transmission sounds like crap due to the 5 kHz bandwidth restriction. (Remember WPEN? Their audio sounded like a telephone listen line.) And most of us still have analog radios. The IBOC digital sidebands wipe out FOUR channels with hash and hiss. With the relatively few AM stations running IBOC in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, the AM band during the day already sounds like the shortwave bands did during the height of the Cold War, when the Russians had their "white noise" jamming stations on the air.

I'm surprised that Castro hasn't tried to purchase some IBOC exciters through Canadian distributors of US-made equipment. A high-power Cuban station using IBOC would be very effective as a jammer. And Castro could even flip the bird to the greedheads at iBiquity by refusing to pay the annual royalties that iBiquity extracts from stations that put IBOC on the air.

Please obtain a copy of this month's issue of Radio Guide magazine and read the technical discussion of AM IBOC and its implications for the AM band in North America. You will see that IBOC, at least for AM, is a half-baked, half-assed system that never should have seen the light of day!