On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:28:04 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 11:27:52 AM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 05:13:48 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

Y'all are making this far too complicated and inventing explanations other
than a simple sync issue within the station itself. Could be as simple as
a tech replacing a piece of equipment and dropping a jumper into the
wrong jack. 10 minutes later - after the phones started ringing off
the hook - it got fixed.

I doubt if more than few listeners heard the problem.

Or, every listener did, as the problem was within the station and not
due to some wild concatenation of unusual forces. The entire premise
of a complicated answer requiring vast research is that it ain't
necessarily so.

You really should read past the first line of my previous posting.
Included are a list of conditions necessary for a listener to actually
hear the problem and to produce a sane a report. The first item on
the list is that the listener must be:
Roughly equal distant from both stations or in an area where
the signal strengths are about the same.

If the signals from both stations on 88.1 were NOT within 2dB, capture
effect would cause one FM station to "capture" the other. All a
listener would hear is the strongest station. Therefore, the only
locations where listeners might have their receivers switch back and
forth between the two stations would be in locations roughly equal
distant from both stations. That represents a fairly small percentage
of the service area and prospective listeners for both stations.

Do you have a problem with this, or do you prefer to continue
suggesting that there is a simpler explanation, which incidentally you
didn't bother providing?

Incidentally, please note that the OP met all the requirements on my
list, yet didn't call the station to report a problem. This should
offer a clue as to how many listeners called the station.

What I am suggesting is that an acorn falling from a tree does
not require the sky to be falling, Chicken Little notwithstanding.
Sometimes, it is simply (and merely) an acorn.

Quite profound, but since a falling acorn makes no sound when nobody
is listening, it doesn't matter.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
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