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96.1 FM Campo (move in)

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SDRadio

KSIQ 96.1, licensed to Campo, is expected to be on air by Feb. 1. Studios in Jamal, and will serve South Bay and Baja California.

Format: Not known. On air: Not known.

ERP: 25,000 watts, (Was a class B; now class B1)

Studios are in a former real estate office in Jamal. There is a 'new' satellite dish at the location. Water tower antenna is up; booster on San Miguel to be built.

See https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101339983&qnum=5100&copynum=1&exhcnum=1for projected coverage without the booster.

Stay Tuned ....
 
Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
KSIQ 96.1, licensed to Campo, is expected to be on air by Feb. 1. Studios in Jamal, and will serve South Bay and Baja California.

Format: Not known. On air: Not known.

ERP: 25,000 watts, (Was a class B; now class B1)

Studios are in a former real estate office in Jamal. There is a 'new' satellite dish at the location. Water tower antenna is up; booster on San Miguel to be built.

See https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101339983&qnum=5100&copynum=1&exhcnum=1for projected coverage without the booster.

Stay Tuned ....
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This is interesting. As I recall the rules (and I'm not going to look them up because I don't have to and they may have changed since I gave a poop about this anyway) you are not allowed to extend your 54 dBu contour with a booster facility. I know this map is showing 57 dBu, but there's not much diff between the two. The info you posted clearly shows an extension of the 57 dBu contour, and without doing the math and plotting the plot I can tell you from experience 54 dBu would not fit inside the 57 dBu main contour shown. Now that being the case, perhaps the FCC has granted this booster since all of the extension of the contour is over water. That's not how I recall the rule, but I've been wrong before. I recall an absolute containment of the 54 dBu booster inside the 54 dBu main. Nevertheless, the coverage of this station is pretty subpar, and this is clearly an attempt at getting something into the San Diego market that somebody hopes to sell to somebody else. Good luck with that.

Their true coverage will be the booster coverage, which is over the least affluent areas of the market. There are a few enclaves of suburbia down there with some income, but we're not talking cash buyers of Escalades. I don't see how they get their money back on this one. With Lincoln Financial willing to sell their stuff for about $28 I don't see this little popcorn maker going for more than 27 cents, if at all. Geoff Chandler probably pulled off the last great move in for profit, and CC did a nifty job with KIOZ, but this effort pales.

Maybe they can be the next home for J&J or DSC, but I think this is an effort that's going to fail miserably as a move in investment. And what format doesn't already serve the market?
 
Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
KSIQ 96.1, licensed to Campo, is expected to be on air by Feb. 1. Studios in Jamal, and will serve South Bay and Baja California.
Studios are in a former real estate office in Jamal.
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Where is Jamal?

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What a let down! We've been hearing about this move-in for many months now and when it finally happens all I can hear is static. I'll have to trust SDRadio.net that the station is up and running because I hear nothing from the Hillcrest area.
 
Edf85 said:
Where/What areas exactly CAN you hear this station?
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I heard the station in Rancho Carmel better than the Mission Trails pass on the 52!! Based on the FCC map: South of the 8 freeway. I have a picture of the tower that immediately faces a hill -- where 25,000 watts are being absorbed. The station is betting on the translator to be built on Mount San Miguel.
 
Did I miss something? Wasn't KSIQ 96.1 out of the El Centro area called "Q96?" I remember, I could pick them up loud and clear when I used to live in Corona and I've also heard them on the way to Blythe and Palm Springs. If they moved to San Diego area, are they keeping the same CHR format?
 
Yes, and 100 years ago when I went out there to do some work it was known as "Si' 96." It wasn't Spanish, but that's what they went by. I suggested "Q 96" but I'm not taking credit for the moniker change.
 
Picked up KSIQ at a Carls Jr. in Rancho PQ. Audio fidelty sounded as bad as Internet streaming. Music was 80s rock pop.
 
Looks like the audio is being fed by a pots line to the transmitter. Seems that they're in testing stages and the actual format will commence once their booster is operational. I spotted their Jeep promo vehicle on the 8. It had beyonce on it and logo was Q96, different from their old logo I've seen on SDradio.

I was listening to the stream of the mexico station that was to inherit the format they left behind. They sound like a mom and pop operation.
mms://216.245.220.82:2016/
 
bobbracket said:
Looks like the audio is being fed by a pots line to the transmitter. Seems that they're in testing stages and the actual format will commence once their booster is operational. I spotted their Jeep promo vehicle on the 8. It had beyonce on it and logo was Q96, different from their old logo I've seen on SDradio.

I was listening to the stream of the mexico station that was to inherit the format they left behind. They sound like a mom and pop operation.
mms://216.245.220.82:2016/
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The audio is TERRIBLE... it sounds like someone is recording this from an FM radio full of static... and whats with the many commercials? Is that how Q96 sounded?
 
This is starting to sound like Top 40 radio war shenanigans. For months leading up to this, there've been people posting that "oh, this will be a diff format; just trying to sell a frequency."

I think its ONE BIG FAT STANKIN' LIE.
It's my bet that they're just trying to sneak a Top 40 CHR in and catch 9-3-3 off gaurd. That is until now. I'm on to this one!
It's B.S. and not the good kind. Once the booster is in, their signal will overlap Z90 and 933's coverage.

I hope 9-3-3 has the Power Pig scoop ready, they're going to need it.

Liar Liars, pants on fires....
 
Can someone please explain why they decided to put KSIQ in Campo, instead of just puting the main signal on Mt Miguel with at least a 1000 watt directional signal covering the south bay and east county.

Just my opinion dont mean to step on anyones toes.
 
I wonder if they can negociate with other frequencies and the Mexican SCT to move 96.1 signal into 98.9 and move 98.5 XHMore into 98.5 or move 106.5 KLNV to 106.1 and relocate 96.1 to 106.9 frequency.
 
Dnajera31 said:
Can someone please explain why they decided to put KSIQ in Campo, instead of just puting the main signal on Mt Miguel with at least a 1000 watt directional signal covering the south bay and east county.

Just my opinion dont mean to step on anyones toes.
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Because of the table of allocations. It's a long and complicated explanation, but the short of it is Campo is the closest they could get to San Diego with a Class B. You can't just pick a place you want to be on a frequency you want to use and light it up. There are spacing issues between 1st, 2nd and 3rd adjacencies. You work around the rules by moving something in nearby and filling gaps with translaters and boosters. What you're suggesting they should have done is basically exactly what they did do. They just have to run the shill Campo facility to make it work.
 
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