WJIB's night signal

[Dan.Strassberg]

Actually, I wrote that it sounded as if the carrier MIGHT HAVE been on but I 
couldn't really tell. Anyhow, as of last night (sorry, I don't know the 
time), WJIB appears to be back at what sounds like its normal day and night 
power. I have heard nothing about the outage from Bob Bittner or any other 
in-the-know person, so the following is 100% conjecture on my part: My guess 
at the cause of the outage was a hard-drive failure. Bob has two 250W 
transmitters at WJIB. Each of them is capable of more than 250W and one of 
them can also be operated at WJIB's very low night power. So WJIB being 
taken down by a transmitter failure, though not impossible, is unlikely. He 
also has multiple hard drives at both WJIB and WJTO. However, he never 
mentioned whether the drives have the ability to switch automatically among 
each other if audio disappears for more than a few seconds. So a hard disk 
failure might require manual intervention. We need the official word on this 
from Bob himself.

Oh, BTW, yesterday afternoon while WJIB was off, I (barely) picked up WJTO 
on 730 on my CC Radio Plus at my home in Arlington Heights. Not what I would 
call a strong signal, but I could tell what music was playing (no, sorry, I 
don't remember the titles of the selections), but I guess you could call it 
DX quality.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@psualum.com>
To: "A Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>; "Boston Radio" 
<boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: WJIB's night signal


> A. Joseph Ross writes: "For the last couple of nights, I haven't been able 
> to get WJIB's night signal. It usually comes in quite well here in 
> Brookline, but last night, I heard nothing and tonight I heard something 
> so faint, I'm assuming it was Toronto."
>
> According to posts on the radiodiscussions board, WJIB was off the air 
> Sunday night and into Monday. Dan Strassberg wrote that it sounded like 
> the carrier was on.
>
>