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WWCS 540's Signal is very weak. I was in Washington County on Mccelland road at rt 19 Noon Time on sunday. , The Signal was Poor and Cutting Out. Are they on reduced Power. The signal is Very Bad In the City Limits Where it Boomed for Radio Disney.
 
For what it's worth AM 540 with Spanish programming was scannable in North Versailles Sunday afternoon.

However, WAMO-660 was not available on AM (it was on FM 100.1). For a moment, I thought the new WAMO was taking a page from the old WAMO and running Sunday gospel music, only to figure out that WKHB-620 was coming in on AM 660.

(A local station often can get picked up on multiple blank frequencies if one is real close to its tower. In this case, my location was roughly halfway between the AM 660 tower and the AM 620 tower.)
 
I wonder how long till other stations complain their running a translator only without the AM being on? I've heard the FCC has fined a few local stations recently for minor stuff but wouldn't that be a major mistake?
 
There's some sort of parameters for this...if there are technical problems with the AM translator and it's not on for some reason, should they have to go over and shut off 100.1? :D

I believe there are provisions for the translator to be fed by the AM's studio, and not necessarily connected to the status of the AM transmitter. For one, if it was required to use the AM transmitter as a feed for the translator, all these stations would be in mono and sound like crap on the translator, and they're not. :D
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
There's some sort of parameters for this...if there are technical problems with the AM translator and it's not on for some reason, should they have to go over and shut off 100.1? :D

I believe there are provisions for the translator to be fed by the AM's studio, and not necessarily connected to the status of the AM transmitter. For one, if it was required to use the AM transmitter as a feed for the translator, all these stations would be in mono and sound like crap on the translator, and they're not. :D
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The "FM" translator has to carry the AM's audio except when the AM is off the air (except daytimers). There is a requirement to sign off the translator if the AM is not running after a certain time period. I believe the FCC will cut some slack for technical issues with the AM. The audio feed for a translater does not to directly feed by the "master" station's on the air signal. It just has to have the same content. A lot of AM stations' "boards" are stereo then mixed down into mono. If I had a one of these operations I would double and split the stereo board feed, one for the AM (mixed into mono for the AM) and one for the FM that was stereo. Of course each would have it's own processing. I have heard of an AM used a FM receiver to feed their AM to save by not having to pay the phone company for a link to the AM site. They did have the ability to use a dial up circuit to keep the FCC happy.
 
540 was really weak on my South Hills back porch this weekend.
Normally they are at least as strong as 620 or 660.
 
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