WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU

[CU2007]

Grady is outstanding.

"No doubt about it"

[RichH]

Grady is outstanding.

"No doubt about it"

No question about it.

I just realized that this also means the end of our favorite local ads.

Pour one out for the East Hill Car Wash jingle.

[Chris '03]

Grady is outstanding.

"No doubt about it"

No question about it.

I just realized that this also means the end of our favorite local ads.

Pour one out for the East Hill Car Wash jingle.

But RC Holmes will surely continue to jump up to get that ball.

[marty]

Before streaming took off I often used to set up a loop antenna in an attempt to listen to HCU at home. The results were iffy as was tuning it in on a car radio.  (The TEF6686 chip found in many car radios is a great performer on both FM and AM.  Only a few portable radios use this chip and that has only been for the last year or so.)

I'm just east of Troy, NY. For the past 2 years or so the AM signal rarely made it this far at night.

I think that HCU has either stopped properly maintaining their transmitter or made a cost saving mod that cut the power a bit.

Audio streaming of the games was a wonderful thing.  I hope ESPN will grant us an audio only option but I'm not optimistic.

[upprdeck]

I havent been able to get the WHCU signal  20 min from campus for years

[Trotsky]

Grady is outstanding.

"No doubt about it"

No question about it.

I just realized that this also means the end of our favorite local ads.

Pour one out for the East Hill Car Wash jingle.

But RC Holmes will surely continue to jump up to get that ball.

I remain in widow's weeds for The Country Couple, at Triphammer Mall.

[Dafatone]

Grady is outstanding.

"No doubt about it"

No question about it.

I just realized that this also means the end of our favorite local ads.

Pour one out for the East Hill Car Wash jingle.

Aw.

[marty]

Grady is outstanding.

"No doubt about it"

No question about it.

I just realized that this also means the end of our favorite local ads.

Pour one out for the East Hill Car Wash jingle.

Aw.

Suds I won't drink.  Smells like a citrus concoction.

[Jim Hyla]

I havent been able to get the WHCU signal  20 min from campus for years

Interestingly I've occasionally picked it up in Hamilton as I left the Colgate game. Unfortunately as I left toward Syracuse, I lost it.

The furthest away that I've listened to a WHCU broadcast was 1968 in Cambridge, MA for the NCAAs.

I've told this story before, but to do it again.

If my memory hasn't gone too far, my source in Ithaca was George64. I called him and he put his phone down so it would pick up the radio feed. I had my phone wired to my Stereo. So we broadcast it to a group at the apartment. Back then the phone charges for non-local calls, Long Distance for old timers, wasn't cheap. So I think we disconnected for intermission.

Today is so much nicer, but I still like radio. I have the radio frequency for each ECAC school's broadcast in my phone, so I could listen, particularly when leaving away games. That could be fun when we won.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I've occasionally picked up HCU on my car radio from Allentown.  

It needs to be unusual atmospheric conditions and just before sundown. During the middle of the day it won't carry, and after dark it gets covered up by a high-powered station from New Orleans.

[jtwcornell91]

If my memory hasn't gone too far, my source in Ithaca was George64. I called him and he put his phone down so it would pick up the radio feed. I had my phone wired to my Stereo. So we broadcast it to a group at the apartment. Back then the phone charges for non-local calls, Long Distance for old timers, wasn't cheap. So I think we disconnected for intermission.

So you guys invented Teamline (?) before it was a thing.  (Am I remembering that right, that in the 90s there was a phone number you could call to listen to some college hockey broadcasts?)

[upprdeck]

I havent been able to get the WHCU signal  20 min from campus for years

Interestingly I've occasionally picked it up in Hamilton as I left the Colgate game. Unfortunately as I left toward Syracuse, I lost it.

The furthest away that I've listened to a WHCU broadcast was 1968 in Cambridge, MA for the NCAAs.

I've told this story before, but to do it again.

If my memory hasn't gone too far, my source in Ithaca was George64. I called him and he put his phone down so it would pick up the radio feed. I had my phone wired to my Stereo. So we broadcast it to a group at the apartment. Back then the phone charges for non-local calls, Long Distance for old timers, wasn't cheap. So I think we disconnected for intermission.

Today is so much nicer, but I still like radio. I have the radio frequency for each ECAC school's broadcast in my phone, so I could listen, particularly when leaving away games. That could be fun when we won.

it doesnt help that there is no cell phone once you get past the airport most of the time either.

[VIEWfromK]

(Am I remembering that right, that in the 90s there was a phone number you could call to listen to some college hockey broadcasts?)

I believe that you could call in for the Cornell lacrosse games as well

[Scersk '97]

I've occasionally picked up HCU on my car radio from Allentown.  

It needs to be unusual atmospheric conditions and just before sundown. During the middle of the day it won't carry, and after dark it gets covered up by a high-powered station from New Orleans.

I've picked it up heading north on 91 through Vermont on ski trips. Faded in on the uphill, out on the downhill, but you could definitely follow most of the games.

This change is another loss.

[RichH]

I havent been able to get the WHCU signal  20 min from campus for years

Certainly a directional transmitter. When I lived in Rochester, I could pick it up in Victor after sunset, but during my time in Corning, driving in from the South on 13 I couldn't pull it in at Alpine Junction just 20 miles away.