100.5 "KIXX Country"

[Xkrusdx]

Just an observation. I live in Lebanon, about 3 miles as the crow flies from "ceminary hill" Just wondering what's wrong with the audio of 100.5 KIXX? they seem to block out most other FM's on the dial. Their bleeding audio destroys 99.7-WNTK-FM, 100.1- "The Planet" and Rock-101 (101.1) Even with a Yagi-FM antenna i can not filter out their signal. are they overpowered? or is their some RF leakage on top of the hill? Just wondering if anyone on this board from Leb. West Leb. Or even Hanover notices this. or if anyone knows who i can contact. BTW i'm a transplant from Philadelphia, and i must say radio in the Upper Valley is A LOT better than the cookie-cutters I listened to back home. Only exceptions, 910 & 1230 "The Score" wish they had more Play-by-play. And i wish there were more "HD Signals" available. Right now all i can pull in is NHPR 91.3 WEVH (HD) and VPR 107.9 (HD, HD-2 "Classical", and HD-3 "BBC World Service") any info would help. thanx!

--D.C.--

 

[Oldbones]

Just an observation. I live in Lebanon, about 3 miles as the crow flies from "ceminary hill" Just wondering what's wrong with the audio of 100.5 KIXX? they seem to block out most other FM's on the dial. Their bleeding audio destroys 99.7-WNTK-FM, 100.1- "The Planet" and Rock-101 (101.1) Even with a Yagi-FM antenna i can not filter out their signal. thanx!

All of the above are weak, out-of-market signals fairly close on the dial to Kixx. A better, more selective tuner might help. Sometimes an outdoor antenna hurts because it's bringing in so much signal it overloads the receiver. There is nothing "wrong" per se with Kixx. People living in Boston have the same problem with receiving any station that's not on the Pru.

 

[NHRadio]

WKNE Keene at 103.7 will be in HD very soon. They are just waiting for the final FCC paperwork.

 

[THE_VIKING]

Just an observation. I live in Lebanon, about 3 miles as the crow flies from "ceminary hill" Just wondering what's wrong with the audio of 100.5 KIXX? they seem to block out most other FM's on the dial. Their bleeding audio destroys 99.7-WNTK-FM, 100.1- "The Planet" and Rock-101 (101.1) Even with a Yagi-FM antenna i can not filter out their signal. thanx!

All of the above are weak, out-of-market signals fairly close on the dial to Kixx. A better, more selective tuner might help. Sometimes an outdoor antenna hurts because it's bringing in so much signal it overloads the receiver. There is nothing "wrong" per se with Kixx. People living in Boston have the same problem with receiving any station that's not on the Pru.

Lebanon in general is a tough spot to pick up any signal that doesn't originate from the Connecticut River Valley area (aside from maybe WHOM and WEBK, whose transmitters are well above average terrain being on very high mountaintops), in large part because of its valley location.

There's still a ways to climb once you've topped Seminary Hill... once you get to spots like Enfield (take a ride up Methodist Hill for instance) I'm pretty sure you can start picking up WGIR, WNTK and WPNH without much trouble.

 

[nhradiochild]

WPNH, Plymouth, never really reached southwestern Grafton county with any real presence. The furthest I've heard it (and I paid close attention because that station was my bread and butter for a couple years!) was in Enfield. However, this was before they moved the tower to Tenney Mtn, so perhaps it has a little better coverage than before. Somehow, I doubt it's much more because they didn't increase power or ERW by much if any. You pretty much had to be halfway to Rumney on Rte 114 (cresting the ridge) before it came in with any decency (in a car radio). Their primary coverage area was the "gateway to the White Mountains" and the Lakes Region. Recently they've been trying to spread to Concord, but that's kind of a long shot.


I'm surprised you would get WGIR at all in the upper valley, unless it's a simulcast on WVRR 101.7 from Newport. Not to worry though, I see in NERW that that signal may be moving to Keene soon anyway.

WNTK 99.7 is a (correct me if I'm mistaken) 3,000 watter out of New London, NH on top of (dang if I didn't forget the name of the hill) actually in Springfield, NH. It never had much of a presence in Lebanon, which is why initially Bob Vinikoor leased 100.5 (ironically enough) from Dennis Jackson. To be totally correct though, the above statement is misleading as 100.5 came first, and later 99.7 signed on (for you radio-buffs some history) as WRJE, until 100.5 became WNBX to make room for WNTK-FM calls on 99.7. Which is only fitting since the studios were and still are in New London. I always thought it was interesting to have studios in New London when your AM (initially standalone transmitting site) was in Newport, and then later an FM in Lebanon. Must have been foresight, or an active idea of where he wanted to broadcast from.

Glad to hear that New England radio is still keeping it's "local air" if you will, even though it seems like it (was) creeping toward that same cookie cutter.