Was listening from 4:45-5:30 this evening, the audio quality is abysmal, sounds like a 32k stream.
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Yikes! I flipped by 106.7 upon reading this thread and literally flinched at what I heard. Back to the AM quality (if it's even that good) audio. Why can't they get it together?
Two possible answers
1. Distance
Remember that WYAY's radio broadcasting tower operates in Gainesville, GA at least 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. Farther the distance, less of a signal strength. I wouldn't be surprised if you can't here WYAY in Carroll or Douglas county.
2. Operation
WYAY is cheap to run as a station, probably not as much when Randy was hired this week. Because of this, they're not going to be big in the programming and quality sound department compared to B98.5, WVEE, and other stations. However, as a whole, WYAY, so far, is doing pretty dang good as an oldies station in this market despite of its signal strength and its low operating costs.
1. Distance
Remember that WYAY's radio broadcasting tower operates in Gainesville, GA at least 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. Farther the distance, less of a signal strength. I wouldn't be surprised if you can't here WYAY in Carroll or Douglas county.
2. Operation
WYAY is cheap to run as a station, probably not as much when Randy was hired this week. Because of this, they're not going to be big in the programming and quality sound department compared to B98.5, WVEE, and other stations. However, as a whole, WYAY, so far, is doing pretty dang good as an oldies station in this market despite of its signal strength and its low operating costs.
thefirstgenesis said:
Oh no, I'm in Athens. The signal isn't the problem. The processing occasionally just devolves to garbage.
It's back to sounding fine now.
thefirstgenesis said:
The xmtr was moved to Snellville several years ago. Sometimes when the T-1 line goes down it would switch over to microwave which ALWAYS sounded bad. Also, sometimes both the main and backup xmtr would be on at the same time and with no T-1 line to control things someone would have to go to the site and physically turn one off.
thefirstgenesis said:
It's not distance. WYAY moved from the River (and currently The Beat until they move intown) tower near Chateau Elan at the southern tip of Hall County (practically in Gwinnett) to the tall (505 meters above avg. terrain) Fish stick near Loganville in Walton County a few years ago, while they were still Eagle. That's not that far from downtown, relatively speaking. Eagle never had these kind of problems, or if they did, they were fixed directly. The 106.7 stick hasn't been in Gainesville proper since the Wide 107 move-in in the early 80s.
jabba17 said:
My bad. Its city's of license is Gainesville, not the tower. If its not the tower's problem in WYAY sounding horrible, then it may be the programming. I'm still surprised WYAY is having intermittent sound difficulties after 20 months on the air.
I am glad that someone else picked up on this. I'm not hearing things! I sometimes notice intermittent problems with 106.7. Could be their satellite receiving link? I’ve worked a couple of unmanned except mornings satellite stations and sometimes there is the there is the dreaded “sun fade” when the satellite’s coordinates is the same as the sun for about 10 or 15 minutes. The old analog receivers usually put out white noise, the digital usually just quit. I wonder if a really big plane in just the correct spot might make a receive hiccup. I believe their studios are very close to the base just of US 41 in Marietta. Also another problem could be someone leaving the channel at too high or too low for the audio chain. I thought I heard a ground hum or R & S the other morning, but living on the north fringe of the market I feel lucky that 106.5 WSKZ in Chattanooga doesn’t mess with WYAY’s reception more than it does.
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