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Any FM translator experts in the house?

Posted by SamA (A) on November 7, 2006 at 16:21:04

After an 18-month absence, my NPR outlet returned has returned to my town. It's a low-power translator and, while there's plenty of signal strength on my goo receivers, the audio sits in a bed of death-inspiring hiss. It's unlistenable.

I have tried all sorts of antenna combinations on a variety of receivers. In fact, I can't even get the signal on the clock radio or boomboxes due to a strong adjacent channel. The NPR outlet is at 90.9. It's sandwiched between 90.5 and 91.3 full-power transmitters.

Getting FM shouldn't be this hard.

I wonder, though, if the translator isn't the problem. If they're receiving the main FM signal from 60 miles away over the air and then rebroadcasting, could it be picking up noise in the reception, interconnects, and rebroadcast? It's not in the signal strength. The seems to come with the signal.

And how do I communicate to their engineers in a language that they'll understand that it sounds like crap on my end? Suggestions on what they can do to fix?

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