Re: [IRCA] An Unhappy Birthday For WLW-AM

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe what's interfering with WLW is an adjacent channel's IBOC ?

Russ Edmunds
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:35 PM, David Faulkner via IRCA <
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> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 01:32:58 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] An Unhappy Birthday For WLW-AM
> Hi All:
> While I'm sorry to see the big stations go, they really are dinosaurs. The
> only way I can get a listenable signal out of WLW anymore is to listen in
> the car, and even then they will occasionally be overridden by a descending
> warbling tone that has to be coming from one of the neighbors' routers (if
> it's not coming from mine). If there was something I wanted to listen to on
> WLW I'd probably listen online. I personally don't think AM can be
> revitalized, no matter how many signals they put on it. The costs are
> getting too high to justify the return on investment, particularly when we
> start talking about highly directional stations. How many stations have cut
> their night power so they can be non-directional? My guess is, several
> hundred
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> 73David
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>     On Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:50 PM, Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
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>  Although I think this is a shame. However, this has been going on since
> the 1970s where more and more stations are allowed on clear channel
> frequencies and the long distance reception is getting harder and harder.
> This is no surprise. The FCC is changing the whole spectrum. They are
> repacking the TV dial and selling frequencies to the cel phone industry, so
> TV markets will be forced to cram more channels into a smaller area. It
> used to be back in the 60s, a person could easily listen to stations coast
> to coast with a clock radio. Today, hearing a station a 1000 miles away
> takes some effort. But we do have streaming in today's World and I use that
> a lot with my wifi radio.
>
> Patrick
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> Patrick Martin
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> > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:03:39 -0800
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