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Is there a new station or LPFM on 99.9?/
- Thread starter Neel
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Do you know what were they playing?
Heard the same thing yesterday driving from downtown Long Beach going over Signal Hill. The mystery signal popped in and out several times. Couldn't ID anything and I don't recall what came in but definitely rolled right over KOLA's signal almost effortlessly.
If its classic rock it could be KTYD. There have been strong temperature inversions as of late. For example, I live at the North base of the Santa Monica Mountains and I can sometimes hear 99.7 KHTY Tijuana loud and clear on my car radio in my driveway.
And by the way I've heard KOLA interfering with KTYD in Camarillo during such Inversion conditions.
Could be KTYD-FM 99.9 in Santa Barbara.
I concur with the other posters that it was probably KTYD 99.9 from Santa Barbara. I was driving from San Diego north on the 5 to Disneyland this afternoon and sure enough I heard KTYD fighting it out with KOLA 99.9 for most of the way. It was confirmed to be KTYD with an RDS lock several times on the drive. KTYD was playing classic rock and some Dusty Springfield oldies which ironically KOLA used to play at one point in time. I was surprised to hear Lady Gaga Poker Face on KOLA, but I guess Lady Gaga is getting to be an oldie but a goodie for my generation.
Driving home from Disneyland tonight southbound on the 5, I heard the same thing except this time it was a voice from the dead, Casey Kasem, spinning his Top 40 on this week in 1985 on KOLA 99.9 while KTYD was talking about Thomas Dorsey inventing gospel music. Unfortunately, there was no mention of Snuggles by Casey Kasem during the dedications.
Driving home from Disneyland tonight southbound on the 5, I heard the same thing except this time it was a voice from the dead, Casey Kasem, spinning his Top 40 on this week in 1985 on KOLA 99.9 while KTYD was talking about Thomas Dorsey inventing gospel music. Unfortunately, there was no mention of Snuggles by Casey Kasem during the dedications.
I'm guessing the program on KTYD was "The Deep End" with the late, incredibly great, Nick Michaels...
I heard KTYD vs. KOLA in Simi Valley once
That's the way it is in much of the west SFV as well.
Before @DavidEduardo comes along and nitpicky corrects you, let me do it... XHTY you mean. Slip of the mind/fingers, easy mis take to make
Can't believe I wrote that !Before @DavidEduardo comes along and nitpicky corrects you, let me do it... XHTY you mean. Slip of the mind/fingers, easy mis take to make
Looks like I didn't know my Ekees-Ekees from my Kah-Kah...oops!
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Yes it was The Deep End! Great great show, I did not realize Nick Michaels was no longer with us. He has an incredible voice and a wealth of knowledge.
I suspected that it might by KTYD as that is the only other 99.9 in this area but then I thought, "na, it's too far away to be heard out here and San Bernardino is so much closer." But I guess radio is unpredictable. Yesterday when I exited Beverly Blvd off the 60 and tried 99.9, the "other" station fighting with KOLA was playing Bon Jovi "You Give Love A Bad Name" but it faded out before the station ID.
During tropo ducting (usually on hot days), KTYD comes in like gangbusters here in San Diego... about 200 miles from Santa Barbara. And I love their "quality rock" format. Nothing else like it around here.
A few months back, I was in Irvine, sitting in the parking lot due to the Traffic Gods smiling on me, and I was about 15 minutes early to work. I noticed that KTYD was booming in. Also KHAY 100.7 from Ventura.
Sometimes I can pick up KTYD along the SR-57 in Diamond Bar, places where KOLA has a dropout.
Sometimes I can pick up KTYD along the SR-57 in Diamond Bar, places where KOLA has a dropout.
When I was at UC Santa Barbara in the mid-80s, I received San Diego FM and TV routinely.
Heck, when I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles, I used to look at the list of TV stations in the LA Times. Normally we picked up 2,4,5,7,9,11,13 and various UHF stations. But when the Tropo rolled in, we'd get the San Diego stations on 6,8,10,12 and (I think) 39
Probably SD's 15, 51,and 69 as well
There are times of the year that with the inversion TV 17 and 19 come into LA and wipe out wireless microphones on 17 and 19.
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