WXKS-AM At Low Power; Are They Installing WILD transmitter?

[Sid Schweiger]

>>That irregularity is the result of a the need to suppress the effects
of beat
between the 1510.000-kHz carrier and an oscillator (I forget its
function)
in TV sets in areas where the 1510 signal is very strong. The beat note
creates nasty visual artifacts on TVs. The station had to slightly
offset
its carrier frequency because the problem affected TVs throughout
Belmont
and Watertown when 1510 first moved to 411 Waverley Oaks Rd in 1981.<<

That would probably be horizontal sync, at 15,734 Hz (nominally 15,750
Hz for monochrome transmission).



Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI
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Boston MA  02135-2040
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