Hay guys kabl has a live web cast at www.960kabl.com . Thay sound graet. I wish i could get them live on the radio for one i have a local on 950 am and i am...
Slightly off topic, but worth it. Today Feb 1st, 2004 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of one the greatest pioneers of modern radio, the late Major...
I'm wondering if Kerry, being in NYC, is faced with more noise than most of the rest of us. Manhattan must be a bad place for clean AM signals, right? SO...
... Well flat has nothing to do with it. Ground conductivity in NYC is exceptionally bad. And I think the NE Georgia and Atlanta area is even worse, being at...
It has been a LONG time since I have posted. I have been through quite a bit in the last 8 months, but that's a story for another time (when everybody has had...
Alan, It's Jay Rogers here, a former WFCF D.J.. I saw your EAS article in the November issue of some mag. I need to ask a few things because our EAS is not...
What's this about a "new" 50 Kw 820 in Utah?? I sure hope they drop power or are directional at night. I'd be real upset if I can't get WBAP Fort Worth...
I remenber living in NYC from 1967 to 1979 and I remember that you could get clean long distan AM Mono their With Radio towers on the Empire State Bulding and...
Doug in Dallas is right about AM being the place to be when bad, bad weather breaks out. When I lived in Dallas, WBAP and KRLD were the place to tune for ...
... Having lived through the time when FM became predominant, I can tell you exactly why FM blew AM away. FM got some excellent programming. There was music...
Exactly right. I do not recall ANYONE talking about the difference in sound quality, or static, or anything of the sort. In fact, if it was the sound quality,...
... signal's ... Amy: To be fair, many times a situation like this has nothing to do with the engineer at the station....he may have been told by management ...
Douglas: The analog is restricted to 5kHz.....the digital information starts at something like 5.02kHz.....any information from the analog signal getting into...
... in your ... Jim: On the contrary. With all the electrical noise in and around New York City, there are places in our COL where we have trouble with 50KW....
... <michaelj@v...> wrote: The ... buzz and ... Woah, hold it! Bite your tongue! Bob Grant GENERATES static....or he wouldn't be doing his job!! Tom Ray WOR...
... most of the rest ... It's the whole general area....far too much electrical noise. We also have a disadvantage here in the northeast of poor ground ...
RE: Michael"s post about new 50 KW stations... We have the same situation here in Omaha. For years and years, KRVN in Lexington, NE and KFAB Omaha were the ...
... Yep like Atlanta. ... Just a half mile from me the soil turns to pure white sand. Guess what kind of conductivity that is? At Edmund, SC where a ham buddy...
... But yet, WOR's audio processing creates splattery "ringing" distortion which extends up to at least 8 kHz and are clearly audible on any wideband or even...
... Well the first part is true, BUT if the NAB wants to give IBOC night authorization by lifting the skywave protection opens a VERY large Pandora's BOX. ALL...
... It's already happening. This afternoon, an hour before local sunset, I heard 1030 WBZ's IBOC signal blasting away hash on top of local 1040 WCHR, and 1530...
There are some ceramic filter catalogs available at ftp.amstereoradio.com in the uploads directory LFC-Toko-4element-ceramic.pdf LFY-Toko-6element-ceramic.pdf ...
In a message dated 2/1/04 7:25:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Ahhhh let me see here.....if there was actual splatter extending up to 8khz,wouldnt that be...
... If WOR chose to use the IBOC exciter's _internal_ 5 kHz audio filter, that would be the case... but instead, they use the Optimod 9200's filter set to 5...
I have a question, These kenwood units, Obviously, they must have direct access to the IF and L+R Feeds back into the tuner? - external module? My guessing is,...
on the tuning cap (linked to the tuning cord / dial). there are small brass screw type slots. Get a screw driver with a plastic handle. tune to a high station...
Yup, WBAP is still stereo. Confirmed that this weekend :) And yep, they're going to be highly directional. Drove out to the middle of a big field 20 miles...
Well I guess I was wrong, then. I was just basing things on how I felt as a kid. I remember thinking how clear and clean it was. And I've seen Kerry and...
