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Another 87.7?

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DavidEduardo said:


Unless you rewrite the laws of physics, you can not get any significant in-building reception beyond the 65 dbu contour with today's average radios.

Folks with better car radios will get it out to perhaps the 45 dbu contour, and even in cheaper car radios with shark fins you will get reception in cars beyond the 54 dbu contour. But in home and at work listening is limited by the attenuation of walls. In fact, historically 95% of indoor listening takes place inside the 65 dbu contour irrespective of co-channel interference and such.
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Newer construction standards don't help. My house is virtually a Faraday cage with aluminized insulation panels in the walls, and radiant barrier in the ceiling Add a home network - and 90% of switching power supplies that put a 1/20 watt resistor where a half watt belongs - which results in severe interference when the resistor fails - and in home listening is rugged, even on FM these days. Oh by the way, a government regulation forces all new wall warts to be switching. And almost all of them have that resistor power error in them. I have kludged in 2512 2W resistors in mine - how many of you have even heard of this problem, let alone know how to fix it?
 
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Newer construction standards don't help. My house is virtually a Faraday cage with aluminized insulation panels in the walls, and radiant barrier in the ceiling Add a home network - and 90% of switching power supplies that put a 1/20 watt resistor where a half watt belongs - which results in severe interference when the resistor fails - and in home listening is rugged, even on FM these days. Oh by the way, a government regulation forces all new wall warts to be switching. And almost all of them have that resistor power error in them. I have kludged in 2512 2W resistors in mine - how many of you have even heard of this problem, let alone know how to fix it?
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I listen to the radio primarily in the car, and based upon that model, my reception of JoeFM on 87.9 was Clear Lake/Webster to the South, Baytown to the east, 1960 to the north (null), and Hwy 6/Katy to the west. My understanding was that it was operating at 72 watts at 250 feet. Now, if you multiply the antenna height by four and the ERP by 40, I would guess that the range would not only increase, but so would the building penetration. Plus, 87.7 is displaced even further from 88.1 in Pasadena, which would be an even more pristine channel.
 
Joe .. Jesus doesnt like evil people. Having had said that know that i will oppose every single request you file just based on principle. You are opposing a licensed station because you are dreaming that the fcc will make a ilegal pirate station into a legal one. I have contacted the people that own this station.
 
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