650 AM All Digital

[Kevin Vahey]

Even on my cheap HD table radio in Cambridge, I have been able to get
excellent reception during the day. ( and I am in a high rise that
faces east )


On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 9:49 PM Tim Gordon <tgordo49@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >> >>
> >>
> >