Yesterday I was in Hartford for some tests and took my digital walkman radio with me for some listening on the bus to Hartford. While nearing downtown Hartford, I was listening to WHCN and the station was being overrun by another station, which was talking about the NFL draft, ie WUCS. The interference made WHCN almost unlistenable. WDRC FM was also affected as was any FM station within hailing distance from WUCS, however WCCC was fine. I'm not sure if it was my radio or is WUCS THAT strong in downtown Hartford? I've experienced this while driving by the WDRC AM transmitters on Blue Hills Ave, but not on FM.
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My Panasonic AM/FM/CD Walkman (sorry Sony!) had the same problems while riding along I-84/US Route 6, especially from between the tunnel to about Exit 46 - Sisson Avenue in either direction. It's touch and go at Union Station, since that's only like 3 blocks away.
Here's my question: Obviously, they can't use West Peak, due to 97.9 FM in New York City. They can't use a site any further east due to WCTY-FM 97.7 of Norwich. Thanks to greater Springfield, we know a site to the north worked before! Was any other site to the WEST even possible, such as Avon Mountain?
Here's my question: Obviously, they can't use West Peak, due to 97.9 FM in New York City. They can't use a site any further east due to WCTY-FM 97.7 of Norwich. Thanks to greater Springfield, we know a site to the north worked before! Was any other site to the WEST even possible, such as Avon Mountain?
Holy Cow! someone besides me is still using a walkmen!
Yes its the Walkmen. I had your problem in Stamford with the Legondary WKHL KHOOL 96.7 growing up up. it would overload my walkimen even in Old Greenwich for the more faint signals like 102.3 WBAB and 95.1 WRKI. Growing up I was always on the train and between Old Greenwich and Stamford, My walkmen was always became overloaded listening to 92.3 WXRK K-rock and when I went to the Stamford Mall it always was growing up.
KML-224, May I suggest this for $50 it can pull WCCC here in and out in Old Greenwich! yes I said that correctly.
http://www.insigniaproducts.com/products/portable-audio-players/NS-HD01.html
Rock on!
_OZ
Yes its the Walkmen. I had your problem in Stamford with the Legondary WKHL KHOOL 96.7 growing up up. it would overload my walkimen even in Old Greenwich for the more faint signals like 102.3 WBAB and 95.1 WRKI. Growing up I was always on the train and between Old Greenwich and Stamford, My walkmen was always became overloaded listening to 92.3 WXRK K-rock and when I went to the Stamford Mall it always was growing up.
KML-224, May I suggest this for $50 it can pull WCCC here in and out in Old Greenwich! yes I said that correctly.
http://www.insigniaproducts.com/products/portable-audio-players/NS-HD01.html
Rock on!
_OZ
Even with the DX/CITY switch on CITY, my "Walkman" will still mess up in two specific locations:
1- Between Stratford and Fairfield, with the side-mounted WEBE-FM 107.9 UI smokestack antenna
2- New Rochelle, NY, with the roof-mounted 96.7 antenna for the former Stamford station.
As for the listed product, I already own that. I won't use it because my full-sized headphones are a P.I.T.A. to use with that and, more importantly, it won't hold a charge for more than a couple of hours, it seems. I'd rather it used an AAA battery instead of the built-in one it came with.
As for WUCS-FM, I get a slight bit of noise with them here in New Britain's south end. I had found a so-called "sweet spot" with the wire on my old Sony 5 CD carousel. However, when I pointed it that way, WHCN-FM 105.9 messed up.
1- Between Stratford and Fairfield, with the side-mounted WEBE-FM 107.9 UI smokestack antenna
2- New Rochelle, NY, with the roof-mounted 96.7 antenna for the former Stamford station.
As for the listed product, I already own that. I won't use it because my full-sized headphones are a P.I.T.A. to use with that and, more importantly, it won't hold a charge for more than a couple of hours, it seems. I'd rather it used an AAA battery instead of the built-in one it came with.
As for WUCS-FM, I get a slight bit of noise with them here in New Britain's south end. I had found a so-called "sweet spot" with the wire on my old Sony 5 CD carousel. However, when I pointed it that way, WHCN-FM 105.9 messed up.
KML-224 said:
The way I understand it, and I could be wrong, is that the station preventing a move to the west was first-adjacent WKZE Salisbury. The required separation is 72 kilometers, and from CityPlace it's 76 km. The Avon Mountain sites are only 65km from the WKZE site, short by 7km.
Avon Mountain is also about 4 miles closer to Empire than CityPlace.
Another problem you'd probably run into on Avon is that 2 of the three sites are owned by Hartford competitors, CBS and Marlin. Could you imagine Clear Channel engineering calling up CBS or WCCC and asking about tower lease costs?
"Sure, I'll let you lease tower space! But you're gonna pay...."
There's always the channel 18 tower across the road from the WTIC/WFSB site which has plenty of space on it, but again I think the site is out of the question.
They really shoehorned the signal in there.
reelyreal said:
You'd be surprised. Clear Channel has an entire division devoted to "vertical real estate." They're just as eager to take cash money from "competitors" for tower rent as they are to take it for Premiere programming or billboard space or traffic reports or any of the other services CC divisions routinely provide for competitors.
And CBS sold most of its tower portfolio to Richland a few years back. I'm not sure whether the Avon site was included or not.
But as you note, the spacing doesn't work, anyway.
Scott Fybush said:
You peaked my curiosity so I checked it out, CBS Communications Services still owns the two AM towers and the FM tower. Meredith owns the TV3 tower and Pinnacle owns the channel 18 tower.
Also interesting, but totally off topic and probably of little interest to most: The Deercliff Road site is actually two lots, 24 acres is still listed with the assessor as owned by American Radio Systems, and 21 acres are owned by Meredith.
I guess money is money, if the spacing worked!
Today my Panasonic AM/FM/CD "Walkman" started getting signal of 97.9 by around Exit 73 of I-84 in Union. I had a bit of (expected) interference from WCTY-FM 97.7 of Norwich, fairly close to Mile Marker 90 in Willington. The signal wasn't really stable until around the CT Route 195 exit for U-Conn in Tolland.
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