Radio audio volume spikes on Newstalk 106 (seems more frequent in rain)?!

[HealyC]

It may not be a problem with your car, Newstalk share an antenna system on Mount Leinster with us, we're having problems with the antenna system.

Newstalk are running reduced Power on 107.2, we're also running reduced Power on 102.0, what you may be hearing is your RDS jumping between frequencies with different Mod levels.

We thought we found the problem this morning, it looked like water ingress.

This is the feeder cable


The dipole


Everything tested fine but after an hour our SWR went through the roof.

It looks like we're gonna need to replace the entire antenna system, which is a bummer.


But what a day!



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Fork me Dave, wasn't expecting that reply!

Try Newstalk on another frequency, don't know where you are but in Dubland you'll get it on 106.0 and 107.4/.6


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[Dave]

Fork me Dave, wasn't expecting that reply!

Try Newstalk on another frequency, don't know where you are but in Dubland you'll get it on 106.0 and 107.4/.6


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Lol, it's not often I get to talk about work

If the issue started about 2 weeks ago, it's probably the transmission problem.


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