650 AM All Digital

[Tim Gordon]

Oops, answered my own question: When in doubt, search! lol...

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/214659/fcc-report-10-31-all-digital-am-coming-to-boston/

--Tim


On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 6:43 PM Tim Gordon <tgordo49@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, and I've been impressed that at night I still get an almost constant
> HD indicator, and a listenable signal out in these parts cutting in & out
> about 50% of the time, as I drive around. This time (last night) was
> different, a complete shut down of their transmitter as far as I could
> tell, and at 6:47pm which is 2+ hours after sunset. Maybe they went back to
> non-HD for some reason? That'd be a different change, too. Curious!
> I thought someone here might know what their bigger game plan for their
> format is shaping up to be...
> But they're back on today, and for the first time I've heard some air
> checks along the lines of, "AM 650, Boston's True Jazz station, WSRO" and
> the like. Seems to be programming that's a little different than what Rob
> L. had mentioned that he'd arranged, I think?
> --Tim
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 8:42 AM Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
>
>> WSRO drops to 100 watts after sunset to protect the I-A clear channel
>> station on 650, WSM from Nashville, which is what you were hearing after
>> dark.
>>
>> On 12/6/2021 6:57 PM, Tim Gordon wrote:
>> > ...And I was just enjoying a jaunty free-form jazz tune when the
>> > transmitter unceremoniously turned off at 6:47pm.
>> > ???
>> > They must have finished whatever testing they were performing.
>> > I've never tried to DX on AM 650, but in the car in wide-open flat
>> areas of
>> > Carlisle & Westford I now mostly get a very twangy country music station
>> > after dark. I wonder where that is coming from.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 5:18 PM Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 4 Dec 2021, Tim Gordon wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Questionable programming enjoyment so far, though.
>> >>
>> >> The format is supposed to be changing shortly. The current one I
>> cobbled
>> >> together on a Sunday afternoon as a temporary stopgap several years ago
>> >> for WZBR 1410. I'm surprised how many times it's come back from the
>> dead,
>> >> and particularly that it's been on 650 for more than a year now.
>> >>
>> >>> Kind of neat to hear the data stream noise for a fraction of a second
>> >>> before the radio figures out it's data. Takes me back to the days of
>> >>> picking up the receiver when someone was using a 1200 baud modem on
>> the
>> >>> line 40 odd years ago. :)
>> >>
>> >> Interesting. My radio doesn't do that, but I have a Boston Acoustics
>> >> Recepter HD, a very old model.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Rob
>> >>
>>
>