Hello my friend. Welcome to the WAMC engineering page. My name is Pat Cooney. I am Vice President for Operations here at your public radio station. I will try to keep this page as up to date as possible. Sometimes things move very quickly during storms and power outages. Many of these times, I am out in the field working, and not near my computer or a reliable internet connection. I hope to be getting an iPhone soon, so this should help with that. If you are experiencing a problem with reception in your area, I would love to hear about it. Not all of our transmitter facilities have internet connectivity, so your report or complaint may be the best way for us to get the ball rolling on repair. You can e mail me pcooney@wamc.org or call my desk (800)323-9262 ext 101, or just dial 0 and report your complaint to the operator. We have someone on duty here at all times, even the middle of the night, so your message will get through. Look to this page often for the latest technical news about our transmitters and translators including some great new information about digital radio which is here and will get even better. Details to come. Thanks for checking in.
Pat Cooney WAMC Operations pcooney@wamc.org
8/25 WAMC 90.3 back to full power Thank you all for your patience. We appreciate it.
8/24 WAMC 90.3 on low power We are at low power on our main transmitter. Our engineers are on their way to Mt. Greylock to assess the problem. We hope to be back up to full power as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
Summer weather
disrupts local FM reception from coast to coast. It's a common problem this time of year
for FM broadcasters - the calls and e-mails start coming in from listeners who
suddenly can't hear their signals. At Washington's WTOP (103.5), PD Jim Farley
says his newsroom has taken several calls complaining of "popping,
fuzzy-sounding audio and interference from other stations."The good news?
There's an easy explanation. The bad news? There's nothing stations can do to
fix it. Here's what's happening: the hot, steamy weather in many parts of the
country is the perfect recipe for tropospheric ducting, which creates
atmospheric inversion layers that bring distant signals in, sometimes so well
that they overwhelm local stations on the same channel. ("Trop" can also wreak
havoc with 950 MHz studio-transmitter links.)
As you know, WAMC is no longer broadcasting on 88.9 mHz in Oneonta. WAMC continues to be available at 99.3 mHz.
Both 88.9 mHz and 99.3 mHz are licensed as translator facilities by the Federal Communications Commission. As such, they are considered secondary services and are subject to protection requirements to certain other facilities.
Family Life Network commenced operation on 88.9 Mhz at Unadilla, NY earlier this month. The interference to our 88.9 signal would have been significant and due to the proximity of the two facilities, our 88.9 signal was required to vacate that frequency prior to Family Life commencing operation.
It is our intent to relocate the 88.9 facility to a different frequency and location in order to maximize coverage of WAMC.
In the meantime, WAMC continues to be heard on 99.3 mHz. This facility is superior to the older 88.9 facility in that it operates with greater power and covers greater area.
97.1 FM in Hudson NY off air. The Hudson School is putting a new roof on the building and we will have to take down the antenna. It could be off the air for a couple of weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience. Pat
97.3 FM is on the air in Cooperstown NY. ENJOY!!!! We are very excited about this new frequency. Welcome to the WAMC family. : ) - Pat GO METS!!
Announcement: WRUN-AM 1150 was signed off the air November 30, 2009. It's no longer part of the WAMC network. Please listen to WRUN 90.3 in Remsen. A sad day for me. I put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into that station, rebuilding the place after the fire. I will miss it. However, it was a monster and was sucking up a lot of resources. Pat
ARE YOU LISTENING TO WAMC 2 ON YOUR NEW IBOC RADIO? LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. No really, let me know what you think. pcooney@wamc.org GREAT NEWS! We are on the air at 90.3 FM in Remsen NY!
If you are in the Utica-Rome area, tune us in. I would be very interested in hearing reports on the signal quality and where you are listening. I hear it's not that great in downtown Utica. Let me know. Thanks.
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