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What former radio station in San Bernardino burned?

TomásEstefan said:
Didn't know that 1240 is di-plexing off of 590...
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Riverside/San Bernardino has got to have the absolute worst AM facilities of any separate top 100 market in the US. For the last three or four years, the local AMs have averaged about a 0.3 share.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Riverside/San Bernardino has got to have the absolute worst AM facilities of any separate top 100 market in the US. For the last three or four years, the local AMs have averaged about a 0.3 share.
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When I was growing up in the 60's San Bernardino's KFXM and KMEN on the AM dial were two of the best stations to serve any market in the country that was of comparable size bar none but neither had a listenable signal much outside of the Inland Empire.
 
To be fair, LA sucks all the enthusiasm out of the local market. I lived in the IE for four years, but the only AMs I'd tune into were 640 and 1070.

Very difficult to compete with heavy hitters. The only reason 99.1 does okay is because 102.7 has a weak signal around some of the hills.
 
34james said:
So were they knocked off the air as a result of the fire 🔥🔥?
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The article says the building was not occupied. If that is the case, the two transmitters are likely in a small and separate "shack". Given the power of the two stations and the size of today's gear, they could all fit in a structure not much larger than an old phone booth!
 
henry said:
To be fair, LA sucks all the enthusiasm out of the local market. I lived in the IE for four years, but the only AMs I'd tune into were 640 and 1070.

Very difficult to compete with heavy hitters. The only reason 99.1 does okay is because 102.7 has a weak signal around some of the hills.
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I live in San Diego and on the AM band, I only have those two stations on my presets as well.
 
Frequency1 said:
The station moved a few months ago from the site.
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I have not been in that area for years... wasn't the tower "out back"? Or is the now-shared site elsewhere?
 
rparky54 said:
I live in San Diego and on the AM band, I only have those two stations on my presets as well.
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I live in North County San Diego and my presets are AM 600 KOGO, 620 KTAR (for night-time listening of Arizona sports teams), KFI AM 640, San Diego Sports AM 760, AM 940 KYNO (for night-time oldies listening), KNX 1070, AM 1320 KKSM Oceanside (nice eclectic mix of music) and the Lamptimer, 1440 KAZG (for nostalgia reasons and occasional sunrise / sunset DX). The stations that come in the best where I live are KOGO, KFI, AM 760, KNX and KKSM. So a mixture of LA and San Diego stations.
 
rparky54 said:
When I was growing up in the 60's San Bernardino's KFXM and KMEN on the AM dial were two of the best stations to serve any market in the country that was of comparable size bar none but neither had a listenable signal much outside of the Inland Empire.
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I easily tuned into 590 KFXM in the west SFV back in the day...but I had to travel to the Inland Empire to hear "K-MEN 129" !
DavidEduardo said:
Riverside/San Bernardino has got to have the absolute worst AM facilities of any separate top 100 market in the US. For the last three or four years, the local AMs have averaged about a 0.3 share.
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And to add to that 1370, 1510, and 1570 no longer exist !
 
TomásEstefan said:
I easily tuned into 590 KFXM in the west SFV back in the day...but I had to travel to the Inland Empire to hear "K-MEN 129" !

And to add to that 1370, 1510, and 1570 no longer exist !
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And to think that I got both 1320 and 1370 in Ohio long ago!
 
asugeorge1 said:
I live in North County San Diego and my presets are AM 600 KOGO, 620 KTAR (for night-time listening of Arizona sports teams), KFI AM 640, San Diego Sports AM 760, AM 940 KYNO (for night-time oldies listening), KNX 1070, AM 1320 KKSM Oceanside (nice eclectic mix of music) and the Lamptimer, 1440 KAZG (for nostalgia reasons and occasional sunrise / sunset DX). The stations that come in the best where I live are KOGO, KFI, AM 760, KNX and KKSM. So a mixture of LA and San Diego stations.
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I thought KTAR was nulled to the west.
 
TomásEstefan said:
Looking at the data, it appears that the KTAR nulls are to the NNW and to ENE with San Diego receiving a possible moderate signal from the western lobe.
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KTAR 620 may be sorta listenable at night in North County San Diego. But in Mid-City, South Bay and part of East County, interference from 620 south of Rosarito Beach makes KTAR unlistenable.
 
Signal Geek said:
KTAR 620 may be sorta listenable at night in North County San Diego. But in Mid-City, South Bay and part of East County, interference from 620 south of Rosarito Beach makes KTAR unlistenable.
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Not to mention there are some traffic alert stations on 620 out there, at least in L.A., that come on occasionally.
 
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