Last night, I noticed that at times, WTAM was bothering WBAL again. So I decided to look at my Drake R8's s-meter. I realize that this is not very exact, but it gives a rough idea of what is going on. WTIC was not a factor in this test because their signal was much weaker.
As a base line, I tuned WBAL to the strongest signal strength with was about s9+35/s9+40 and it was still getting hissed about 1/4 of the time. I quickly went back and forth between 1090 and 1100 to see what WTAM's signal strength was relative to WBAL when I heard hiss on 1090. WTAM's signal varied from about s9 to s9+25/s9+30. As one would expect (perhaps even axiomatically), when WTAM's signal was above S9+20, the hiss was easily noticeable on WBAL. When it was less than s9+15, the hiss was not as noticeable. For reference, WTIC never made it above s9+10 and as I noted above, did not appear to be a factor. Remember I am within WBAL's NIF contour, and should not be hearing IBOC hiss from WTAM at all. -- Bill Harms Elkridge, Maryland Check out the Spokane Radio History Pages http://spokaneradio.philcobill.com and the Spokane Radio Tower Pages http://spokanetowers.philcobill.com _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
