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Old June 16th 05, 05:56 PM
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KSL 1160 Salt Lake City has dropped a decades-old tradition on account
of IBOC. They just threw the switch a couple of weeks ago.

The ttradition was that KSL broadcast the 'Nauvoo Bell' on Temple
Square, at the top of every hour. The bell was once in the original
Nauvoo LDS (Mormon) Temple but was removed before that building was
destroyed by an arsonist then a possible F5 tornado a year after that.
The Mormon Pioneers carried it across the plains with them.

They mounted it eventually in its present location, and it has rung
every hour ever since save for occasional times due to maintenance or
other circumstances. It will still ring, but because of IBOC it will
not be heard live on the radio any more. KSL has aired the ringing of
the bell for almost all of our lifetimes until last week.

The technical explanation given was that there is now a seven-second
delay between the analog and digital signals being broadcast. People
actually have been known to, and still set their watches to the Nauvoo
Bell's ringing on the radio.

This was discovered when a radio fan saw some men on a snorklift
removing some electronic equipment from the tower. An email to the
chief engineer of KSL confirmed it.


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Old June 18th 05, 08:17 PM
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James W Anderson wrote:
KSL 1160 Salt Lake City has dropped a decades-old tradition on account
of IBOC. They just threw the switch a couple of weeks ago.

The ttradition was that KSL broadcast the 'Nauvoo Bell' on Temple
Square, at the top of every hour. The bell was once in the original
Nauvoo LDS (Mormon) Temple but was removed before that building was
destroyed by an arsonist then a possible F5 tornado a year after that.
The Mormon Pioneers carried it across the plains with them.

They mounted it eventually in its present location, and it has rung
every hour ever since save for occasional times due to maintenance or
other circumstances. It will still ring, but because of IBOC it will
not be heard live on the radio any more. KSL has aired the ringing of
the bell for almost all of our lifetimes until last week.

The technical explanation given was that there is now a seven-second
delay between the analog and digital signals being broadcast. People
actually have been known to, and still set their watches to the Nauvoo
Bell's ringing on the radio.

This was discovered when a radio fan saw some men on a snorklift
removing some electronic equipment from the tower. An email to the
chief engineer of KSL confirmed it.


You can also forget about taking your portable radios to the ballpark
to listen to the broadcast while watching the game while IBOC is in
use.

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There's an update on this.

KSL's engineers discovered a tarantula sized bug in IBOC that caused
the seven-second delay. They were able to fix some things, and soon
the bell sound reappeared about four days after the first reports of
this surfaced.

BTW: Clear Channel fired up IBOC on KJMY 99.5 Bountiful/Salt Lake this
week (the first FM in the market to do so), and probably the next day
fired up the IBOC equipment at KODJ 94.1 Salt Lake.


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Old July 7th 05, 02:37 AM
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There's an update on this.

KSL's engineers discovered a tarantula sized bug in IBOC that caused
the seven-second delay. They were able to fix some things, and soon
the bell sound reappeared about four days after the first reports of
this surfaced.


There is no bug in IBOC. It has been known since the beginning that the
digital processing creates a 6 to 7 second delay; to allow analog fallback,
a delay must be introduced in the "main" signal as well. The only time this
is an issue is if the station uses on air live cues for spot coverage or, in
the case of KSL, the time chime.

This is not a bug. It is by design.


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