On 17 Dec 2003 15:58:21 GMT, "videonex" wrote:


"Robert L. Herman" wrote in message
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To ansdwer your question.

First of all it's an all day thing. It seems to be all over town. About a
month ago I was riding out to a place where I play piano music for some
older people at an assisted living place on the other side of town and the
distorted sound never cleared up from my house to the other side of town.

As I stated earlier the distortion was heard as far away as Battle Creek.
To
discribe the sound would bew like running a radio with batteries that are
about to die. You know that raspy sound that a station makes when the
batteries are about to die.


It's definitely a problem at the station. Many AM stations these days are
only on the air because if they aren't, the FCC will take the license. The
way those owners operate them, I'm surprised they just don't give the
license up anyway. It's poor maintenance and a lack of caring on the part
of the person(s) who should care and fix the problem.


I suspect you're right and it's a maintenance problem. One of the
local TV stations here in town seems to be forever having audio
problems when it runs network programs off of the satellite or the
evening news from the station in the next nearby larger market. Some
nights the sound is so bad as to be unintelligible. Yet, it goes on
month after month this way. They just don't care enough to pay to fix
it (or can't afford to).

George