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Worst LPFM sound quality you've heard?

The LPFM in western Montana aforementioned has never changed. Their audio is still unlistenable, distorted, and has never changed. Any engineer from Missoula can fix it tomorrow if they wanted to. Nor has the huckleberry shakes at the tourist stop which are delicious and more enticing than the audio quality of their 'local' radio station. The school won't do anything to fix it...and it may not have the money, either. I don't even know why it stays on the air.

There's another school LPFM in southwest Montana with horrendous audio quality. They were playing vintage country music from the 1940s and 1950s, and as I drove back they also played some newer stuff (like Lady A). Quality was also distorted, unlistenable, and at times, sounded like the quality of holding music. The school that runs this is in a town of 2,000 right off I-90 and just miles from Montana State University. Get somebody from Your Network of Praise or Yellowstone Public to check out that 'station'.
 
crainbebo said:
The LPFM in western Montana aforementioned has never changed. Their audio is still unlistenable, distorted, and has never changed. Any engineer from Missoula can fix it tomorrow if they wanted to. Nor has the huckleberry shakes at the tourist stop which are delicious and more enticing than the audio quality of their 'local' radio station. The school won't do anything to fix it...and it may not have the money, either. I don't even know why it stays on the air.

There's another school LPFM in southwest Montana with horrendous audio quality. They were playing vintage country music from the 1940s and 1950s, and as I drove back they also played some newer stuff (like Lady A). Quality was also distorted, unlistenable, and at times, sounded like the quality of holding music. The school that runs this is in a town of 2,000 right off I-90 and just miles from Montana State University. Get somebody from Your Network of Praise or Yellowstone Public to check out that 'station'.
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Telling us "The LPFM in western montana" and "Another school LPFM" tells us nothing.. what stations and where? Calling them out but not mentioning names serves no real purpose
 
I based it on the original poster's call for "you don't have to name stations". I'll go ahead and break that rule if you wish.

They are KTGC-LP 101.3 in St. Regis, and KPWS-LP 93.1 in Manhattan. Even a local said that KTGC has sounded bad for years.
 
Not quite an audio issue. But there is an LPFM on 102.1 just south of Albuquerque. There is also a translator operating on the same frequency on the north side of Albuquerque. And there is a translator on Sandia Crest, also on 102.1, directional East. but there is enough signal coming West as to be audible in Albuquerque. Result is that the LPFM is just about unlistenable.
 
KHSJ-LP 100.1 here in Vegas went weeks with no audio. And they're on a church building with K261BZ on Potosi same frequency relaying KSOS which absolutely swamps it. Can't be heard more than a mile or so away from the church because it's only 30 watts and K261BZ is running 165 watts
 


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