Mining the Crimson

[Scersk]

I do so love the motivational material provided for us by that unflinching beacon amongst college newspapers, the Harvard Crimson:

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The ECAC's crackdown on obstruction should also favor the faster, quicker teams in the league like Harvard, to the possible detriment of more physical teams like Cornell.

"We have a lot of speed," junior forward Tyler Kolarik said. "A team like Cornell that doesn't have a lot of speed or skill shut us down through obstruction and clutching and grabbing. So being on the power play all night is going to be a huge benefit."
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Quoted from:  http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=254993

I suppose our clutching and grabbing has resulted in our low penalty totals thus far in the season?

[Scersk]

Excuse my wrongly used tags:  shows you how long it's been since I've posted, and I can't edit it because I didn't log in.  I guess I'm turning into a real techno-moron.

[Greg Berge]

This explains why Harvard did so well against clutch and grab Brown.

[Robb]

Especially considering our pathetic penalty kill.....::rolleyes::

[adamw]

It's always good to have radio material fall right into your lap.

"Coach Mazzoleni, what did you make of Tyler Kolarik's comment that Cornell is a clutch and grab team with no skill?"

[DeltaOne81]

If I wasn't in Ithaca... I would sign up for a month of CornellPass just to hear the answer to that question (or at least sign up for the free trial). But seeing as I am, I'll probably be at Lynah already, maye someone'll tape it ;-).

[Mike Hedrick 01]

Kolarik scores one soft goal at an opportune time and now he's talking trash about our ability to deal with their "faster skating" team.  This guy isn't exactly what you'd call "Harvard material."   Oh wait...

I hope he enjoys a face full of Doug Murray.

[mha]

I'll be listening, Adam. If that crappy AM radio signal can make it into Lynah this season, that is.

[CowbellGuy]

I had to buy a powered antenna to listen at home and it's still pretty awful. And that's in Ithaca...

[crodger1]

Amazingly, as I told Age in Hanover Saturday, my car seems to get fantastic AM reception.  Over the past month, I was able to listen to both an AM broadcast of OHL games (Windsor Spitfires v. London Knights, and then v. the Owen Sound Attack the following night) on CKLW (AM 800) in Connecticut and northern NJ from Windsor, Ontario(!) and this past weekend hear the UVM feed of the Cornell @ UVM game in downtown Boston from Burlington, VT!  Sure, there was more than a little static, and the Vermont feed was interlaced with the Harvard and Maine feeds for that night, but I was still shocked.

But by the sound of it I should not hold out hope of getting the 870 feed for the CU games (I couldn't get it from NJ, even though I could get that Ontario one).

I bet that the tire dealer advertising on CKLW would be surprised at the size of the market they were able to reach.

[adamw]

There's nothing inherantly wrong with AM.  In fact, an AM signal at the same wattage goes 10 times farther than FM.  It's all about the wattage though, and whether AM stations in smaller towns have to power down so as not to interfere with stations on the same frequency in larger towns.

If they don't have to power down, or there's not a station on the same frequency interfering with it from a larger town, then it can travel a long way.  On a good Saturday night from Central NY, you could listen to 8 NHL games and a few AHL - and it's always better in the car.

Ask me about growing up on Long Island during Mets-Cardinals pennant races -- doing everything imaginable to listen to KMOX out of St. Louis.

It seems as though, unfortunately, WHCU is forced to power down.  Perhaps if you do what I used to do .... stand on one leg, holding the antenna with your other arm in the air.  ...  :-)   Or just sit in the car.

[Jordan 04]

We need a "50,000 watt clear-channel voice of Cornell hockey" :-)

[kingpin248]

Adam - you are correct about WHCU needing to power down.  According to radio-locator.com, it operates at 5 kW during the day and 1 kW at night.  The information, along with estimated coverage range maps, is at http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=WHCU&service=AM

I seem to remember a former WVBR chief engineer saying something about a station coming from New Orleans being the cause of the change in power.

[mha]

Yep, my new Audi gets fantastic AM reception, actually, and I can listen to WHCU in my car as long as I'm not inside the parking garage or driving under an overpass or near a traffic light. (Poor Age said the blinking traffic light near his place keeps adding a static burst when he's listening at home.)

Sitting in my car for the whole broadcast has limited amusement value, though, especially in the winter.

[Ken71]

Perhaps it's not a defect inherent in AM broadcasting, but many of the times I'd like to listen to broadcasts of away games, I'm in a room with computers, and it takes a lot of futzing with a battery-powered receiver to get a signal without unbearable interference.

Back when the games were on FM, this wasn't a problem.   The broadcasts were strong and clear - almost as if Cornell wanted them to be listened to, not just endured.

One solution had been to get the games via the Internet, but CornellPass makes that an annoyingly expensive way to get just a few away games a month.

Ken '71