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KLTR's Reach into Houston

The Rimshot said:
According to fccdata.org, KLTR's signal reaches inside Beltway 8 on the northwest and westside of Houston. For the most part, my travels to Houston exist on the southwest side and downtown. How accurate is their map?


https://www.fccdata.org/?facid=40775&appid=1768368&i=2
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The minimum for indoor listening (work or home) is about 65 dbu.

In-car listening can extend to the 54 dbu (or, sometimes, out to the 50 dbu) if there are no adjacent channel translators, LPFMs, etc. nearby.

So those outermost contours for this station are accurate for strength, but indicate a very weak signal that most people will not or can not use.
 
tb_ said:
Not accurate at all... in Cypress (99/290 area), the Centro translator running SportsMap drowns it out.
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The map is accurate as to signal strength, which is its purpose. The issue is to know at what signal level listeners can easily tune the station.
 
Prior to the 94.1 translator signing on, KLTR could be heard with a rather weak but listenable signal in the parking lot of the Fairfield Premium Outlets near the Grand Parkway @ 290. But traveling inbound on 290 the signal would be pretty much gone around Beltway 8. It was really not a usable signal on a typical receiver in Harris County, unless tropo from the west was kicking up.
 
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