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A new station in San Antonio?

KevanGC said:
DO you guys think KSYM 90.1 will be affected?
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From a preliminary check it looks like there could be problems. The minimum distance between two class A stations operating on first-adjacent channels is almost 45 miles while the actual separation between these two is about 31 miles. An exception could be made if either of them was designated as a contour-protection station (using a directional antenna), but in this case neither of them are.
 
It is a new spanish/english christian radio station for San Antonio. I don't know what the call letters are. It belongs to my wife's church, the Centro Christiano International church and school, located on Culebra rd near Benrus, headed by Hermano Ballesteros. I think the tx is located in Devine, TX. Last Saturday, Mr B was supposed to have had a dedication ceremony and official sign on, but has encountered some technical problems. I believe he has appealed to his congregation for anyone with radio knowledge or qualifications to assist. It seems that he wasn't quite as prepared to start up a radio station and wasn't aware of what was necessary or required. But I'm sure they'll work it out. They have had a OTA TV station (DTV 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) for a few years already and have no problem running that or even converting it from analog to digital last year.
 
Checking a little further into the separation between the two stations its obvious that the minimum distance requirement was circumvented by using reduced antenna height for KYRQ (3,000 watts ERP at just 135 feet). It's close to the limit but it fits, so far as protection to the KSYM service contour:

http://maps.google.com/?q=http://ww...RQ&freq=90.3&contour=60&city=NATALIA&state=TX

http://maps.google.com/?q=http://ww...req=90.1&contour=60&city=SAN_ANTONIO&state=TX

KSYM's antenna height is quite low as well, at about 128 feet, and its ERP is just 5,700 watts.
 
I hope they don't think they can serve San Antonio with that station. The coverage map shows it barely makes it up I-35 to Lytle.
 
fredcantu said:
I hope they don't think they can serve San Antonio with that station. The coverage map shows it barely makes it up I-35 to Lytle.
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Maybe they can get a translator.
 
Another Gerald Benavides station. Look at the mailing address, phone number, and email address:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101376012&formid=340&fac_num=90949

From what I can gather he is basically selling this station to Pastor Ballesteros but not transferring the license fully from his non-com entity (St. Jude Broadcasting) until final payment is made in "x" amount of years.

That's kind of funny seeing Gerald Benavides own a non commercial station.
 
Infamous said:
Another Gerald Benavides station. Look at the mailing address, phone number, and email address:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101376012&formid=340&fac_num=90949

From what I can gather he is basically selling this station to Pastor Ballesteros but not transferring the license fully from his non-com entity (St. Jude Broadcasting) until final payment is made in "x" amount of years.

That's kind of funny seeing Gerald Benavides own a non commercial station.
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LOL Who's Gerald Benavides?
 
The station makes it into downtown and SW San Antonio. It becomes spotty around Callaghan- Culebra/Military-151-410, sporadic in the Med Center and zilch @ De Zavala-IH10. Since Sunday, the signal quality varies, some dead air, test tones, so it seems that they are still working out the bugs.
 
It sounds like they're using a CD changer or something. They keep repeating the same Spanish Christian songs with a few second pause between each song.

The audio quality sounds nice and clean though.
 
I know it is a CD changer now. The CD was skipping really bad a few minutes ago.
It's not anymore.
 
They must still be testing. I remember when 105.3 FM first signed on (late 84 or early 85?) they played a loop of 5 or 6 songs all night long, over and over again, breakining the monotony with promos of '105.3 magic fm'. No commercials, no DJs, only the loop.
 
It sounds like they're now using a computer and not a CD changer - there's almost no pause during songs now. I've noticed the audio quality isn't that great anymore. There's now too much trebble. They probably need to fix the equalizer on the computer.
 
1st of 5 said:
They must still be testing. I remember when 105.3 FM first signed on (late 84 or early 85?) they played a loop of 5 or 6 songs all night long, over and over again, breakining the monotony with promos of '105.3 magic fm'. No commercials, no DJs, only the loop.
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KWED was on before then on that signal airing Country Western as KWED AM/FM Seguin.
 
willdav713 said:
1st of 5 said:
They must still be testing. I remember when 105.3 FM first signed on (late 84 or early 85?) they played a loop of 5 or 6 songs all night long, over and over again, breakining the monotony with promos of '105.3 magic fm'. No commercials, no DJs, only the loop.
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KWED was on before then on that signal airing Country Western as KWED AM/FM Seguin.
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The 'loop' stunt happened on 02/07/1985 under temparary calls KTXB Magic launched on 2/14/1985 according to the FCC. From 3/20/1980 to 2/07/1985 it was KWED.
 
The 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook says KWED-FM went on the air Sept 9, 1970 and in 1980 was programming beautiful music duplicating the AM 30%. The 1981 yearbook shows KWED-FM as C&W programmed separate from the AM.
 
KWED FM must have been very low powered or very directional back then because I don't ever remember hearing them on any of my sets. From mid 1978 thru 1981 I could listen to KNCN C101 FM, KZFM and some other Corpus Christi FM radio stations, as well as a few Houston and Austin stations, almost on a daily basis, but never heard KWED FM until they switched to Magic 105.3 FM.
 
KWED-FM was 38kw at 130 ft (probably on the side of the AM tower) before the upgrade.
There were no FM directional antennas back then. If they were running beautiful music, maybe you didn't want to hear them. You mentioned hearing C101 and KZFM out of Corpus but KIOU and KSIX-FM were there too running beautiful music.
 
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