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Student Radio 88.1 FM WSBF
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Student Radio 88.1 FM WSBF

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Nov 30, 2023, 11:30 AM
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WSBF really plays some good music, of course this depends on the DJ and your personal tastes. I know many of us may have been turned-off by the discordant "head-banging" type of music during some past years, however.

The cool thing is many of the young DJ's nowadays appreciate a lot of the beloved rock, folk, and alternative music from the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties. The signal from the 4000 watt transmitter sounds great, as long as you are close in, and reception is possible, from high spots, in some cases at quite some distance.

Recently their signal is suffering many drop-outs though. My uneducated guess is this is some audio issue at the studio,and not some transmitter issue. I am writing this in the hope that some of you WSBF Alum's can perhaps give them a hint for resolving this issue. Maybe radio tech is too "old school" for the youngsters?

It would seem that if a Prof. in EE or ECE offered extra credit to a student that could figure the problem out, the issue could get resolved, maybe?

Posting this because I did email the Station asking about the problem, but no answer was forthcoming from them.

Historical note: I think the transmitter antenna was once atop the Loggia at Johnstone. As I recall it had a couple of horizontally-oriented stacked loops on a short tower. At some point the transmitter was moved , and a pretty high antenna was constructed on Tank Hill, as it was known then, because of the large cylindrical water tank up there. This is now known as Kite Hill. There is another style water tank up there now, quite alike the one atop the hill at Ravenel Research Center/CUPD Station, etc.

The Ravenel tower ,as seen from Johnstone A9, etc. in the old days, would glow red at sunset, and was known as the "Doorknob to Hell".

This low priority the station puts on fixing the signal might be that most students listen via the internet stream, and don't even listen to radio anymore.

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