W242AA

[Bob DeMattia]

I can attest to what Aaron is saying - listening to 97.7 in the very small
WYAJ service
area, my radio will switch back and forth between WYAJ's analog signal and
97.7 WKAF's
digital carriers.

-Bob


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Aaron Read <friedbagels@gmail.com> wrote:

> Eli Polonsky wrote:
>
>> The HD signal was so weak that even a few blocks
>> from the tower, I was only getting the HD icon blinking, meaning it was
>> detecting a HD signal,
>> but it was too weak to fully lock on to the HD.
>> It kept trying to load the HD signal, but failed.
>> (snip) I tried it again a few weeks ago, and W242AA seems
>> to be no longer in HD, there was no more blinking HD icon, so I don't know
>> what's up with it.
>>
>>
> @Jeff: if W242AA is relaying the HD2 audio of WGBH, then by definition no
> HD carriers can be "passed through" because WGBH HD signal is being decoded
> to audio and then fed into an audio input of W242AA's transmitter.
>  (possibly with an audio processor inbetween)
>
> @Eli: I would suspect that you were getting digital carriers from either
> adjacent-channel WSRS out of Worcester or co-channel WEII out of Dennis.
>  Both have pretty monster signals that would ordinarily come in fairly well
> in Kendall Square if it weren't for W242AA.  It's entirely possible for a
> digital signal to start to overlay an analog-only one; I've seen it
> happen...the radio starts on the analog station and then suddenly blends to
> the digital one.
>
> Or maybe WGBH really did drop a dime on a new HD Exporter for W242AA. But
> if they did, they never notified the FCC about it and, AFAIK, FM translators
> still require digital notification.
>
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