Fwd: Re: Long Top-of-the-Hour Station ID strings

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

 The multi-station ID could serve a useful purpose in alerting
travelers that when the station they're tuned to fades out,
another one near their destination is available.  I set out
for Cooperstown, NY (for the Glimmerglass Opera) during
the IVth of Jully weekend, and switched from the WAMC
mother ship to the Conajoharie{sp?} rebroadcaster on the
way...I even SAW the repeater antenna on a hill north of town.
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DATE: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:54:16
From: Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>
To: "Rod O'Connor" <rjoc@webtv.net>
Cc:EM1 GITCHIER <RGITSCHIER@doyle.navy.mil>,<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Rod O'Connor wrote:

> Island and Alaska Peninsula. The best time I could get it recorded for
> the carts and Digilink was 18 seconds!

Wouldn't there be a way, with all this digital technology available, to 
develop a system that inserts the call letters for that particular 
station in the network when it has to ID itself instead of hearing ALL the 
station call letters in series?

You know...install some sort of hard drive, cart machine, minidisk or 
something at the repeater stations' transmitters and when it comes to ID 
time, central control sends a subsonic tone down the line to trigger the 
ID "carts" (for lack of a better word) at each individual station?

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sven


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