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Mark Simone, 77 WABC New York | July 21, 2007
This really is a noisy aircheck. Recorded in your webmaster’s back room with all my electronics lit up, the WABC signal often faded into the high computer noise which is so prevalent around the AM band everywhere these days. But, it’s not unlistenable. Recorded on a wideband AM Stereo receiver from Radio Shack (one of those vintage 80s models), where the signal is good (about 70 percent), WABC actually sounds very good despite having wrecked their audio chain during the time of this recording to thanks to it’s IBOC “HD Radio” signal.
As an interesting side note, WABC actually quit using its HD transmitter some time ago… but now for some odd reason, the overall signal stinks. And corporate (Cumulus Media, now) is stuffing every available time slot with infomercials! Talk about destroying a legend, but I digress…
This does fade out and get difficult to listen to in spots, but hang in there. Mark Simone and the old WABC jingles are worth every minute of the 8:23 that this scoped recording offers.
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