WYPR

[ka3kza]

Would someone please tell WYPR if they want to save money on their Ocean City repeater, 106.9 WYPO, don't just turn off the audio, turn off the transmitter too! I turned in early Saturday morning about 12:30 and no audio, checked it again at 1:00pm Saturday afternoon, again no audio. What happened to the FCC rules for a legal ID each hour, and if the audio fails the transmitter must be turn off with in 3 minutes! WYPO is a joke. WRAU is also a joke, who on the eastern shore cares about Washington D.C. News, traffic and weather.

 

[ka3kza]

Monday morning still no audio.

 

[w9wi]

What happened to the FCC rules for a legal ID each hour, and if the audio fails the transmitter must be turn off with in 3 minutes!

You have a point about the legal ID.

But there is no rule requiring the transmitter go off if the audio fails.

There is a requirement that you be able to control the transmitter -- be able to turn it off. A number of stations have accomplished this by wiring a silence sensor to automatically shut down the transmitter if audio is lost. But there are other ways of complying with that regulation.

There is a more specific requirement for translators, that the translator shut down if the input signal is lost. But this station isn't a translator, and thus isn't subject to this regulation.

 

[ka3kza]

Finally audio sometime after 5pm.

 

[Ike]

What a huge waste, duplicating most of the same NPR programming already heard on WSDL-90.7 and WRAU-88.3's much stronger signals. WYPR should sell this signal to WTMD or WXPN. Dummies. For that matter, maybe WAMU could have put its "Bluegrass Country" HD/Internet channel on WRAU... eh, I can dream.