Rest of Nevada Hawthorne, NV Radio Questions

[b-turner]

There's 10 stations you can pick up. 7 are simply repeaters of distant stations. Three are supposedly local in this town of about 3,300. Two are non-commercial and have been operated by Lucky Boy Educational Media for many years. One of them had been classical maybe a decade ago. The NCE FMs are KQMC and KELC. Now I see a talk FM, a 100 watt off a 33 foot stick (obviously just to get on the air before doing something more substantial).

Can anybody with knowledge tell me about these 'local' stations? Thanks

 

[RF101]

You can listen to KAVB Hawthorne here: http://207.244.126.86:8053/listen.pls?sid=1

NYX also repeats that content on KAZB in Wilkerson, California.

 

[michael hagerty]

There's 10 stations you can pick up. 7 are simply repeaters of distant stations. Three are supposedly local in this town of about 3,300. Two are non-commercial and have been operated by Lucky Boy Educational Media for many years. One of them had been classical maybe a decade ago. The NCE FMs are KQMC and KELC. Now I see a talk FM, a 100 watt off a 33 foot stick (obviously just to get on the air before doing something more substantial).

Can anybody with knowledge tell me about these 'local' stations? Thanks

I don't have knowledge of the stations, but I do know the area:




Most stations licensed to Hawthorne are actually targeting the Eastern Sierra of California, from Bishop to Bridgeport. There are about 25,000 people in that 90-mile stretch, including residents of both those towns.

Highway 395 is also heavily traveled, as the main highway from Los Angeles to the ski town of Mammoth Lakes, the east gate to Yosemite National Park and the scenic route between L.A. and Lake Tahoe.

In the days before California legalized tribal gaming, the El Capitan Casino in Hawthorne was a heavy advertiser on KIBS in Bishop and in the area paper, the Inyo Register, for the same reason---far more people in the Eastern Sierra than anywhere around Hawthorne proper.