650 AM All Digital

[A Joseph Ross]

They seem to be running the same classical service as WSCS.

On 1/3/2022 8:40 AM, Rob Landry wrote:
>
> Classical: http://natrix.springfieldsvariety.com:8000/wsro
>
> Jazz: http://natrix.springfieldsvariety.com:8000/wzbr
>
>
> 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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