Re: WEEI 850 off air, WERS too?

[Eli Polonsky <elipolo@earthlink.net>]

I believe WERS keeps their carrier on the air at all times for SCA
(subcarrier) programming (I've heard possibly a radio service for the
visually-impaired??)

That is why WHRB (Harvard) also sometimes broadcasts dead carriers (with
automated TOH ID's and/or promos) during school breaks and summertime.

Eli Polonsky


> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 13:10:19 -0400
> From: "Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
> Subject: RE: WEEI 850 off air, WERS too?
> 
> At 12:55 AM 4/8/2002, Hakim Madjid wrote:
>> About two weeks ago 850 was off the Air around 2am. Perhaps they're having
>> some sort of technical problem with the transmitter.
>> 73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
> 
> Did anyone else notice that WERS (88.9FM) was putting out dead carrier
> (transmitter on, no audio) around 4am Sunday morning (3am if you hadn't
> switched your clocks yet)?
> 
> If memory serves WERS still goes off-air from 2am to 6am every morning, so
> they were supposed to be off-air then, but the transmitter should be off, too.