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Booneville

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MarioMania

Is anyone here from Booneville or any other Town close by?

How is FM Reception there? I'm just wondering ..Someone I know ther told me FM don't do well because of the mountains
 
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My guess you should pick up 101.1 just fine.

Just not many powerful stations around. That's the problem.
 
Depends on your location... as in "down in the valley" or "high up on a mountain or hill". Though the waves bend around some, FM is basically a line-of-sight kind of signal. I used to fly from Indiana down to the Pikeville, KY area and have traveled by car through eastern Kentucky. For small plane pilots, eastern KY can be a scary area. If the engine fails, where do you make your emergency landing. (I know that has NOTHING to do with listening to the radio!) But if you live down in the valley, your FM receiver is going be about as useful as a small plane with a dead engine!
 
Yeah there is WJSN 97.3 is powerful. 103.7 out of Campton might be okay to pick up.

Beattyville has two stations. WLJC at 102.1 and 88.3.

I wonder if they can pick up WLJC-DT channel 7 or WYMT-DT channel 12 there. VHF seems to bend over the mountains.
 
Two added thoughts about my post about mountains and hills:

1. If both YOU and the station transmitter/antenna are up on top of the terrain, good things happen!

2. Stations have an engineering option/choice to make when they built their transmitter site. A multi-element transmit antenna focuses the output power toward the horizon and gives the same "effective transmitter power" with a much smaller transmitter. Saves electric bills for YEARS. Great choice in Kansas or centrall Illinois or Indiana. Bad choice in mountainous area. The inefficient 1 or 2 bay antenna sends part of it power up toward the sky, but ALSO sends part of its power down... as in "a bit more coverage into the valleys" for people who do not live on the hill-top.

You can't just look at Radio-Locator and say: "Oh, a thirty-thousand watt station 40 miles away. I am in luck!" It ain't that simple.
 
I think I've pulled in another 103.3 while in Jackson so Lexington is out. It fades out by the time you hit Stanton.
 
I think you can get some fm stations there but if you are wanting WXZZ there that just can't happen. You might get 92.9 or 94.5.
 
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