Albany NY Metro HD Radio Stations

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FM: on-air now
90.3 WAMC Albany
96.7 WPTR Clifton Park
98.3 WTRY Rotterdam
103.1 WHRL Albany
106.5 WPYX Albany
107.7 WGNA Albany

FM: expected soon
92.3 WFLY Troy (IBOC antenna installed)
95.5 WYJB Albany (IBOC antenna installed)
99.5 WRVE Schenectady (unknown status)

AM: On-Air Now
810 WGY Schenectady (50kw U-ND1)
1540 WDCD Albany (50kw U-DA1)

[Mike-CT]

You wrote:

AM: On-Air Now
810 WGY Schenectady (50kw U-ND1)
1540 WDCD Albany (50kw U-DA1)

I hadn't even noticed WDCD's IBOC until you posted this. So now at 7:50pm 4/26 1530 and 1550 are trashed by WDCD's HD signals. But I can phase them down to some extent.

Kenwood R2000
Quantum phaser and 2 longwires.

[NECRAT]

WKKF and WRVE will be both signing on very soon with their HD.

WRVE will be using the spacial type with a 2 bay aux antenna, (which was on the floor of the WRGB transmitter room when I was there in May), and Buc Fitch told me they are working on their WKKF system as well.

As far as WFLY and WYJB is concerned, I didn't see any new antennas on their towers when I was there so I am unsure where these HD antennas you mention are. WFLY's single bay ERI which has been there since the lightning strike blew a slug in the primary back in 1998. WYJB has a single bay Jampro that has been there since the begenning of time. (I believe in some cave in Rotterdam you will find a carving showing the antenna! and the name "caveman Fybush" next to it ;-) ).

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Ok, I'll take the hit on the FLY antenna, after only being up there once and it looked pretty shiny & new when I saw it.

But the Jampro on the YJB stick puzzles me, as after several trips & photos of the tower I don't recall seeing it until late last year. It's not to say that I couldn't miss the obvious (as my wife would be much in agreement), but that threw me when I saw it in your pics, but not mine from a few years ago. I'll take your word for it, since it does look fairly ancient.

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Somewhere, i'd have to search my archives for it, I have a picture of it from 1998

When I was given the tour of WFLY's transmitter by Roger Brace when I knocked on the door there, he was the one who told me about who was who and what was what up there. That was back in 1998 when this whole thing started. (It was the first time I had ever heard the name Jampro and in fact I even penned down the name so I could research who this company was when I returned home). Roger said that , that antenna was the original WROW-FM antenna and they used it since they had moved to that tower from the WTEN tower back in the 60's. However I seem to think its newer than that. I can find out for certain on it, but I'll bet that antenna is 1978 vintage, same as the original transmitter.