Cory, Do the FCC rules & regulations depend on a stations political affiliation? Sure, Air America stations often fall under the category of "low budget", but it seems to me that any station should be required to adhere to a minimum broadcasting standard as set by the FCC. This station KOKE seems to be worst in terms of broadcasting (content is another topic best said in another forum) that I have ever heard. Just today I pushed the button in the car, and there was dead air for 10's of seconds at a time with occasional pops of voice. Maybe they are doing voice over ip with a dial up modem connection. What voice I heard was distorted, and splattered up and down the band at least +/- 20 Khz.
Regards, Jim --- Cory Hine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim, > > Take a look at what that station is.... it is part > of > Air America, the Communist arm of the Democratic > party. I am not surprised that their signal > stinks.... > > Cory/AD5QP > > --- Jim Candela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm changing the topic a little, but the title > > above still fits. I called a local AM station > (KOKE > > 1600 AM)today about their quality, and had to > leave > > audix. It seems that this is a low budget station > > that > > relies on networked broadcasting via voice over > IP. > > The quality varies from poor to horrible. Today > they > > were splattering +/- 30 Kc, and were very > distorted. > > Yesterday they had low audio, and it sounded like > a > > 3" > > speaker in a pickle jar. The IP stuff also results > > in > > packet loss, and ineteruptions in the audio. > > > > It seems to me that things were better decades > > ago > > when remote programming was done via the twisted > > pair > > phone line. I have listened to many a MLB baseball > > game this way. > > > > So what if any position does the FCC take on > > commercial AM broadcasting stations using voip > where > > the quality and level are both highly variable? > > > > Regards, > > jim candela > > WD5JKO > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > AMRadio mailing list > > Home: > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul > > Courson/wa3vjb > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul > Courson/wa3vjb >
