In the Washingron DC area, we have one station that was really in trouble a few years back. You would regularly hear them dead-air for hours, with only CNN news every half hour. Sometimes they would have two simultaneous audio feeds for hours. This hapened day after day for a month or two. Then it changed ownership and it was OK.
Bacon, WA3WDR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Candela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] FCC & AM > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________________ _______ > 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 >
