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Post by kenglish on Jan 27, 2023 17:46:20 GMT -6
Anyone else hearing hum in AM 730?
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Post by David on Jan 27, 2023 18:53:05 GMT -6
Anyone else hearing hum in AM 730? I'm hearing it at my house in NE Ogden, but it's not overpowering the audio right now. To my ears, it sounds like the low hum you'd hear on an old vacuum tube radio with the volume turned all the way down. It could be that the filter capacitors in the AM transmitter are slowly dying, or perhaps the AM antenna's copper grounding system has deteriorated. FWIW, I also checked KSVN's 99.9 translator, and its audio sounds fine. |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 27, 2023 19:03:59 GMT -6
FWIW I'm not picking up anything intelligible on 730 right now and I think I should be, but I'm on the edge of the theoretical nighttime coverage area and it's now past sunset. The audio of KSVN-CD 25.3 doesn't have any hum, though they're only broadcasting on the left channel. Can't tell if it's mixed mono or just the left stereo channel.
I just noticed something interesting. The only FCC listed STL for KSVN is at the 1538 Gibson site, which was reported a year ago by Friendlee as being demolished. I wonder what they're actually using.
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Post by kenglish on Jan 27, 2023 20:19:03 GMT -6
KSVN-Radio has it's studio co-located with their transmitter. So, no STL is needed.
They also have a TV studio up there, and had another in SLC,.... something to do with having the two LPTV channels.
The TV setup had a couple of STL systems, but I can't remember how it was all wired up. I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out.
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Post by David on Jan 27, 2023 22:16:20 GMT -6
IIRC, the 1538 Gibson address was the building which originally housed the KVOG (and later KOET) TV studio(s). Sometime in the 1970's, KSVN's studio was located in the 1538 Gibson building, which is when Friendlee worked there. That was at least a decade before 730 flipped its format to Spanish language and moved its studio to Hooper, so the STL address apparently wasn't updated after the move. Of course, if there is no STL at the current studio site as Ken mentioned, Azteca probably didn't see the need to update the STL location in the FCC records.
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