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I live in the Boston area, and am blessed with a few interesting FM stations - some even seem to care about the sound! One fairly good sounding station is always accompanied by what sounds like a 60hz hum. No other station on the dial has that hum, and it is true with the four FM tuners I have in the house (both solid state and tube, different antennas) - just that stations hums, and no other.
It is WHRB - the Harvard University station. Might someone there understand the issue? Who would one reach out to - station manager? Technical support?
Thanks,
David
Follow Ups:
How about you respond to the advice you get?
Even give us an outcome?
Other wise, don't come asking for help, ever, again.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Have you contacted the station that hums?
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
and, sell all but one tuner to fund that move?
:-)
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
The techs at the stations like it when knowledgeable (as opposed to crank) listeners contact them about broadcast quality issues.
I contacted NPR in San Francisco about a decade ago when I heard distortion in peak passages during an Opera live broadcast.
I described my system (including Mac MR-77) and the problem, so I guess they figured I had good equipment and was an experienced listener...
They fixed the problem and then invited me to join a community advisory committee (but I didn't have the time).
There must be something wrong with me for not having something wrong.
Get in touch with them.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
I would contact the station manager. Perhaps others have called in about the issue. We had a similar hum problem on our local NPR station, broadcast from a college, and it turned out to be a poor ground on their transmitter or maybe it was a transformer. They fixed the problem and it hasn't happened since.
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