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mrtejano
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I am on eastex freeway at East Mount Houston and I am picking up a Spanish station on 92.5 not very clear but it sounds like Christine Spanish music.
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rbrucecarter5
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FUNDACION ARTE CATOLICO CHRISTIANO has a construction permit to build an LPFM on 92.5 just a few miles east of your location. See http://www.fccdata.org/?appid=1666574&facid=195789 They can legally operate under the permit while testing things out.
IGLESIA CRISTO VIENE OF BAYTOWN, INC. also has a permit for 92.5. Long way for that one to travel, but not outside the realm of possibility. See http://fccdata.org/?appid=1689799&facid=194064
IGLESIA CENTRO DE LIBERACION also has a permit for a station on 92.5 in South Houston. Also within the realm of possibility. See http://fccdata.org/?appid=1717776&facid=191681
Once these get on, I don't think anybody is gonna be DXing oldies on 92.5 anymore outta the Golden Triangle.
I don't know - usually those LP stations don't have much range. I think West Houston will be OK. My biggest problem is with a KSBJ outlet somewhere on 92.5 If the new LP's jam 92.5, there is always HD-2 and satellite.
KWUP.......hmmmm......
KWUP.......hmmmm......
You have to get as far out as Tomball before getting any reasonably listenable reception of KWUP. At my Cy-Fair location near the Beltway it's usually a poor KCOL.
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purpledevil
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You have to get as far out as Tomball before getting any reasonably listenable reception of KWUP. At my Cy-Fair location near the Beltway it's usually a poor KCOL.
You aren't kidding, Frog. You have to be near Prairie View to get a signal any normal listener would tolerate. KSBJ desperately needs a better signal than KWUP on the NW side. Just imagine if they had something on par with KXBJ's coverage area, up there in Navasota?
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purpledevil
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Christine Spanish?
The only difference, rage, is when this one's radio pops on, Dámazo Pérez Prado plays instead of Robert & Johnny.
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mrtejano
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It's almost A repeat of last topic, same area same hour but now on 92.3 I am picking up the eagle 92.3
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mrtejano
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OK now I am on I 10 is closed to Beltway eight and it still sounds a little good not perfectly clear but tolerable.
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mrtejano
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Actually it's KETX-FMThat's out of Livingston. 92.3 KATX-FM. 32 KW. Heard occasionally in Houston...
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purpledevil
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Heard occasionally in Houston...
When it's actually on the air....
Is KETX having issues these days? I had heard they had some rough times at one point. If I'm not mistaken, and I might be, KETX is now owned in part by a guy I worked with at a couple of stations and he was exceptional at sales. Then again, depending on the equipment they're working with, that could be another story.
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purpledevil
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Is KETX having issues these days? I had heard they had some rough times at one point. If I'm not mistaken, and I might be, KETX is now owned in part by a guy I worked with at a couple of stations and he was exceptional at sales. Then again, depending on the equipment they're working with, that could be another story.
To be just brutally honest, Bill, neither KETX nor KETX-FM have been the same since the passing of Harold Haley. They were both off the air for extended and several periods of time. I believe 92-3 has been on consistently for about a year now, maybe a little bit more. I don't travel up to Onalaska or Coldspring anymore, so I haven't personally heard the AM in quite a few years, but there are threads buried around here mentioning the silence of the combo, at various points throughout the last 6 or 7 years.
Interesting to hear your friend is at the Livingston helm now. He owns a part of all three, AM-FM-LPTV?
KETX-FM has been on the air with their "Eagle" satellite fed format for quite some time; at least a couple of years. They have a decent signal, covering all of US-59 ummm...I mean... I-69 from Kingwood to Lufkin.
The last few times I passed through, with the most recent about a month ago, the AM was off the air. It was also off on my prior trip too, but I can't say if it has been off for all of this time.
I don't know anything about the KETX's TV station.
The last few times I passed through, with the most recent about a month ago, the AM was off the air. It was also off on my prior trip too, but I can't say if it has been off for all of this time.
I don't know anything about the KETX's TV station.
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Last time I was in Livingston, a week ago, 92.3 had horrible audio....the AM was dead carrier for a long time but finally started playing after an hour of silence.....
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purpledevil
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Last time I was in Livingston, a week ago, 92.3 had horrible audio....the AM was dead carrier for a long time but finally started playing after an hour of silence.....
Audio has been suspect since it began its on again, off again relationship with Livingston several years ago.
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purpledevil
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The last few times I passed through, with the most recent about a month ago, the AM was off the air. It was also off on my prior trip too, but I can't say if it has been off for all of this time.
KETX has been off more than on, since 2006. I believe that corresponded with the original owner of the pair taking ill. It sat off for a long time, well after Mr. Haley had passed, was transferred to an executor, sold, and then began the on/off dance (with off taking the most steps). The latest extension for Silent STA was dismissed in 2014, but....
...well, C-Dub said he heard a peep from 1440. That'd be the first confirmation that the AM still exists in a long time.
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rbrucecarter5
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92.3 does pretty well in my West Houston location - when they are on the air. But then my car actually has a whip antenna and I am using a Pioneer Supertuner. I can't get it on my daughter's car with a shark fin antenna and stock radio. And not in my wife's car with a stock Delco, even though it has a whip antenna. That Delco is a piece of junk. I need to get in there and replace with narrow ceramic filters or something.
Actually I haven't talked to them in years. I was glad to see them settle in with their own stations versus selling for other stations. I wonder just how much 'trouble' they bought. Equipment that lies dormant is much like a home left unoccupied. I doubt they're rolling in cash to the point they can just do a complete revamp.
I hear so many horror stories. One guy bought a 50 kw AM in the mountains and found the transmitter could never do more than about 11,000 watts in its present condition and the phasor had been done wrong, leading them to scrounge up the money to fix everything after the station had been off the air almost a year. Because of low ground conductivity, those 50,000 watts didn't cover that much and the station was in a rural coal mining region where billing was never going to be that much. They're working through it piece by piece but needless to say the business plan they had really had quite a bit of reworking.
I hear so many horror stories. One guy bought a 50 kw AM in the mountains and found the transmitter could never do more than about 11,000 watts in its present condition and the phasor had been done wrong, leading them to scrounge up the money to fix everything after the station had been off the air almost a year. Because of low ground conductivity, those 50,000 watts didn't cover that much and the station was in a rural coal mining region where billing was never going to be that much. They're working through it piece by piece but needless to say the business plan they had really had quite a bit of reworking.
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