650 AM All Digital

[Rob Landry]

No, 1410 is good old AM. It has an FM translator at 98.1, which is 
basically Radio Free Medford.


Rob

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Ron wrote:

> Is 1410 all-digital as well as 650AM WSRO?
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> Landry
> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 8:40 AM
> To: Tim Gordon <tgordo49@gmail.com>
> Cc: Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Subject: Re: 650 AM All Digital
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> Classical: http://natrix.springfieldsvariety.com:8000/wsro
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> Jazz: http://natrix.springfieldsvariety.com:8000/wzbr
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>
> Rob
>
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, Tim Gordon wrote:
>
>> Enjoying the 1/1/22 change to classical on 650, it makes good use of
>> the dynamic range etc. capabilities. I'll let Rob post the online feed
>> links to
>> 650 and 1410 which he sent me if he wants to make those public, I
>> think they're pretty cool, to use the technical term. No pressure. :-D
>> --Tim
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:14 AM Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 7 Dec 2021, Tim Gordon 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
>>>
>>> No, they never went back to analog. I can only assume you were
>>> experiencing some sort of interference. Without an analog signal to
>>> back up the HD, it just mutes if it can't decode the digital. And all
>>> that interferece you typically hear on the AM band is still there;
>>> it's just being covered up. WSRO can only run 100 watts after sunset,
>>> and it's got a Class A in Nashville on the same frequency.
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> The format got tweaked a bit by Stu Fink, but it's still basically
>>> the same format.
>>>
>>> There is a format change coming at the beginning of next month. I
>>> *think* the jazz format will continut on 1410/98.1, but I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>
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