WHUD improves signal; emergency network benefits

WHUD, the Hudson Valley’s primary emergency broadcast source, is completing a $500,000 project to install a new, state-of-the-art, solid-state transmitter that will dramatically increase the reliability and clarity of WHUD’s signal. The work was expected to be finished Dec. 7, according to the station.

WHUD (100.7 FM), which has its studios and offices in Beacon, and a hilltop transmitter near the Westchester-Putnam line in Putnam Valley, has a coverage area stretching 90 miles from Pennsylvania to eastern Long Island. The station’s core markets include Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange and Dutchess counties. The new transmitter’s steadier signal will make it easier for modern, digital-tuning radios in fringe areas to lock onto WHUD’s 28,000 watt signal, said the station.

The new, solid-state transmitter means WHUD will operate at full power with nearly 100 percent reliability and no downtime. This is significant because WHUD is the Hudson Valley’s primary Emergency Broadcast System station, serving as the source used by the region’s other stations. When the Emergency Broadcast System is activated, WHUD’s signal is rebroadcast through all of the other stations in the Hudson Valley, making it important for WHUD to remain on the air at all times.

WHUD’s new transmitter was manufactured by Maine-based Nautel Ltd., one of the world’s leading suppliers of solid-state broadcasting equipment. Nautel transmitters are used in 170 nations.

 

 

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