WHUD’s signal to get stronger
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- December
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Starting Friday, WHUD, the popular FM radio station that calls itself the top music station for Westchester and the Hudson Valley, will come through clearer in vallies, offices without windows and other places where the signal is partially blocked by topography or structures.
The station has completed a $500,000 project to install a pair of minivan-sized transmitters in a structure at the base of a tower near Route 9 in Putnam Valley. The 20,000-watt transmitters replace the 30-year-old equipment the station has been using, said Jason Finkelberg, the general manager of the station.
“The quality of signal will be significantly better with the new piece of equipment,� Finkelberg said.
The difference will be particularly noticeable at the outer edges of the station’s coverage area, he said. That would be south of New York City in New Jersey, near the Pennsylvania-Orange County line, the north end of Dutchess County and in Waterbury, Conn.
In the Lower Hudson Valley, “We were pretty good anyways,� Finkelberg said.
“The difference that you’ll hear there is that in buildings and in vallies there’ll be no place where you won’t be able to hear the radio station anymore,� he said.
WHUD, which can be heard at 100.7, is based in Fishkill.
The station is the Hudson Valley’s primary Emergency Broadcast System station. That means that when the Emergency Broadcast System is activated, other stations rebroadcast the WHUD signal.
If WHUD goes off the air, all the other stations in the area would lose access to the emergency information.
“This is area is vulnerable to blizzards and hurricanes and also has the Indian Point nuclear plant, so we take our emergency broadcast obligations seriously,� Finkelberg said.
The new system was manufactured by Nautel Ltd. That company’s transmitters are used by thousands of stations in 170 countries, WHUD said.
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