Re: Entercom AM's Sound Crappy

[Peter Murray <pete@partnercomm.com>]

If both WEEI and WRKO are sounding poor this morning, it isn't their 
transmitters. Perhaps they're having trouble with their normal 
connectivity from the studios to the transmitters (which are 24 km apart). 

I would admit that since this isn't the first time, perhaps you were
hearing the implementation of the final fix to the earlier problem, though
given the timing (i.e. not normal 'maintenance window' hours), it sounds
more likely that the same trouble has returned.

Guest Street is where I would look first.

-Peter Murray (N3IXY)
Pittsburgh, PA

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Laurence Glavin wrote:

> This morning (08/06) I tuned in for a while to WRKO-AM because Tom the Taxinator
> (Tom Finneran Speakah of the House, in Mass) and O3 were doing the morning 
> show.  Apart from any of the content, I noticed that there was a
> sporadic
> crackling sound and the audio was a bit distorted (as if O3 didn't already
> sound distorted!)  I remember that the late lamented radio-info.com
> Boston Board had entries about WEEI's strange-sounding signal months ago, so 
> I flipped to AM 850 on a very good-sounding radio (the one I use to listen 
> to LTAR) and WEEI still sounded tinny and lacking in presence.
> Are the Entercom AM's so tight for funds that they can't maintain their
> transmitters?  I trust the signal leaving Guest St.  doesn't sound that bad!
> 
> Laurence Glavin
> 
> 
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