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latindj

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I just recently purchased a radio station and i'm having some trouble getting into some close by city but i'm getting into other places that are kind of far away and i had some one tell me maybe it was my ground system my question is how much of a difference can a ground system make?? Can it make or break a station??
 
> I just recently purchased a radio station and i'm having
> some trouble getting into some close by city but i'm getting
> into other places that are kind of far away and i had some
> one tell me maybe it was my ground system my question is how
> much of a difference can a ground system make?? Can it make
> or break a station??
>

I'm assuming AM? If it is, it can make a HUGE difference! If your grounding system it tore up or poor, you won't get out worth a damn. Fix the ground radials and you'll find things will start working much better. Do you have much reflected power? If the ground is really screwed up you'll find more reflected power than normal too.

If your referring to an FM, it's less of an issue. (lightning protection mainly for FM) If you are messing with an FM, it may be a problem with the antenna litterly sending more up than out that is causing what you describe. (antenna malfunction or something put on the tower near the FM bays?)

For more information on this, I'd ask around in the engineering board. That's probably a good place to discuss this actually.<P ID="signature">______________
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Latindj, since you have posted about pirate radio on the Texas board and Houston board, is this a pirate station you are putting on the air or a licensed broadcast station?
 
it's a 5,000 watt AM station what do you think lol it's a full time station i can get into the major market well atleast the cars but my problem is penetrating the walls inside the houses . The guy i bought the radio station from told me that the grounding system has about 300 copper cables and that some were messed up when the new tower was put in lets say that 80 of these 300 cables are cut would that be enough to take from my power?? my question is would watter in contact with my ground sytem make a difference
 
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