I'm picking up a Spanish-language religious station on 101.7 in San Diego's East County area. Faint signal that sometimes gets drowned out by 101.5 KGB. I searched on-line and don't see anything licensed nearby. It's not KXSB in Big Bear. Any ideas on what I'm listening to?
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Spanish-language religious station on 101.7
- Thread starter Signal Geek
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Could be this:
Radio visión internacional 101.7 fm | Tijuana
Radio visión internacional 101.7 fm, Tijuana Centro. 207 likes · 25 talking about this. Una radio de fe, que predica el evangelio de Cristo
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Why would IFT license a station in Tijuana adjacent channel to a San Diego allocation? Surely this had to be signed off on by the FCC under the international treaty ...?
pirate radio
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Little chance of it going away anytime soon, then.
I've never heard of a pirate *religious* station. All the pirates I've picked up over the decades were airing stuff like heavy metal and hard-core rap.
Religious associations in Mexico must notify the government of their intention to hold a religious meeting outside their licensed place or places of worship. Religious associations may not hold political meetings of any kind or own or operate radio or television stations. Government permission is required for commercial radio or television to transmit religious programming.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Oh, how I wish we had those regulations.
I remember hearing about a few churches using unlicensed FM transmitters to broadcast to their "sick and shut-in" members. I might have heard about a couple in So. Cal....just google "fcc nouo church" for some examples.
If 101.7/Tijuana is truly a pirate, I wonder why they picked a frequency right next to 50kw KGB-FM. Better choices (with no local stations on adjacent channnels) would have been 98.5, 104.1, 106.1 or 106.9.
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JTJoe
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101.7 Tijuana religious with hum w/no stereo.
103.3 another Tijuana SP religious pirate been on for years.
103.3 another Tijuana SP religious pirate been on for years.
103.3 is another terrible choice for a pirate. San Diego has *two* repeater signals on that channel (rebroadcasting AM 1360 and 1240 respectively, both highly directional away from each other). Plus, those often get drowned out by 105kw KRUZ/Santa Barbara. It's about 200 miles up the coast. But when tropospheric ducting is especially strong, KRUZ roars in like a local.
Or maybe they just want higher power!
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Or they are channeling Aimee Semple MacPherson.
Being on a cluttered or short spaced frequency is probably what they want, hoping to be less obvious on both sides of the border and not get caught. It is an illegal operation after all.
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