We all figured it was tropospheric dusting.
We all figured it was tropospheric dusting.
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5:13pm yesterday, I was listening in my vehicle. When I got home, I tried to listen on the app, but ESPN Bristol was running instead of y'all which I know is not normal.
7:49am yesterday there was no 97.7 stream at all.
5:11pm last Wednesday the station should have been streaming, but was in blackout mode (this happens pretty often)
In the radar world ducting is an atmospheric anomaly that traps both transmitted and return energy in a layer of the atmosphere. That means that if a radar target is in the duct layer of the atmosphere it will be seen further than normal since all the energy is in that layer. If a target is not in the duct layer it may not be seen at all or be detected very close to the radar. Ducting occurs when there is usually a temperature inversion in the atmosphere. This phenomenon has very little to do with the antenna if at all. Ducting usually occurs when radars are looking seaward. Radio transmissions could experience the same effect. The use of this term in explaining any long term radio transmission problem, to me, seems contrived over normal operating conditions. More likely is a problem with the equipment.
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I'm not smart enough to understand what in the world you just said. Mind... blown. I just know that it happens certain times of the year and in the morning and fine by middle of the day. And we aren't the only ones to experience it.
Paw dawg I'll look into stream ?
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To be sure ... temperature inversions are not uncommon in the South this time of year. (I noticed the haze hanging over LR on my way to work just this morning.)
But whether they can interfere with broadcast equipment, I couldn't say. I don't think I've ever really noticed many FM signals acting squirrelly each summer. (But maybe it happens all the time, and I just change the station without thinking about it.)
So . . . the question I've got is . . . why are the RedPeach family of stations regularly the only ones affected by the phenomena? All the other FM stations in the area come in loud and clear.
I guess being located in the red clay hills of northern Louisiana near Dubach is a bad spot for an antenna. . . .
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Fwiw, the same thing happens this time of year down here in sout La. It seems more of a problem in our rural areas.