X107.3 is translating what?

[badreligionnc]

What is X107.3 translating? The HD signal has been absent from 94.5 HD2 for at least a week.

 

[byron]

Are they airing legal TOH IDs?

Byron

 

[JPlainJohn]

Will somebody Re-Boot the computer???

 

[austingrace]

I don't know but I'll be able to tell you all tomorrow when I get back to Altamonte.

 

[badreligionnc]

Now they are back on 94.5 HD2. The electronic crackling noise is back on the HD channel too. It must be very hard to fix.

 

[Bill_981]

If the HD2 was off, yet 107.3 was on, are they feeding it directly, instead of OTA?

 

[badreligionnc]

I would say they are. The 107.3 signal does not have the constant crackling noise. Is it permissible to do that?

 

[byron]

Is Steve Fluker not around, or aware that this is going on? Crackling noise would be something I'd expect engineering to fix, especially if its in the audio chain of a HD broadcast signal. (Then again, it sounds like this is only affecting the HD-2 side..)

Byron

 

[EBFeaster]

Steve Fluker is no longer at Cox radio. He left a couple of years ago. He's now over at WFTV & WRDQ. One of the best engineers in the market, IMHO!

Ellis

 

[byron]

That explains things. Thank you sir. Agree with you, he is certainly one of the best.

Byron

 

[Kent]

I would say they are. The 107.3 signal does not have the constant crackling noise. Is it permissible to do that?

Translators that relay HD subchannels are considered fill-in translators, which means they may be fed directly instead of only off-air.

However, from what I understand, they are still supposed to go off-air if the signal they translate goes off-air.