Domestic stations near houses/businesses ; overseas AMs/LWs near saltwater?

[davideduardo]

We have a local 850 jabbering foreign, which I don't speak.

Huh?

Besides being a rude statement, Spanish was spoken in Texas well before any English speaker arrived.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Huh?

Besides being a rude statement, Spanish was spoken in Texas well before any English speaker arrived.

How is it rude? I didn't single out Spanish language. I just said I don't speak foreign. That doesn't single out any ethnic group whatsoever. And native American was spoken centuries before Spanish. That makes all of us hostile invaders. So that 660 in Window Rock is about the only station serving folks who really belong here.

KEYH is a perfect example of a bad neighbor that slops high frequency trash all over adjacents. Since you are convinced that all AM radios have limited bandwidth, then asking KEYH to low pass their signal wouldn't make a bit of difference to their listeners. Right? Instead the incessant splatter (or jabber) whatever you want to call it spills all over 840 and 860. The only thing that could be worse is if they went HD or something. As it is, they do a hatchet job on KONO unless you really null carefully. That is uncalled for and I really wish they would quit. I've been told - a long time ago - that this splatter is on purpose to draw attention to the fact they are on a neighboring frequency. A Spanish language station in Midland used to splatter 40 kHz - effectively jamming KLIF 1190 from West Texans eager for better radio than our pitiful little home town provided.

A little property lesson from my government class - your freedom ends where your neighbor's nose begins. Applied to radio, it should be - keep your modulation on your own channel and off adjacents. But wait - that would sink the sacred cow of HD radio.

 

[davideduardo]

How is it rude? I didn't single out Spanish language. I just said I don't speak foreign. That doesn't single out any ethnic group whatsoever. And native American was spoken centuries before Spanish. That makes all of us hostile invaders. So that 660 in Window Rock is about the only station serving folks who really belong here.

The term "foreign" combined with "jabbering" when applied to a known Spanish language station is certainly neither respectful nor sensitive.

Spanish, which preceded English in what, 6 or 7 of the US states, is hardly "foreign" any more than the native American languages. In fact, it is the principal language of Puerto Rico, USA, so the idea of it being "foreign" is unreasonable.

KEYH is a perfect example of a bad neighbor that slops high frequency trash all over adjacents. As it is, they do a hatchet job on KONO unless you really null carefully. That is uncalled for and I really wish they would quit.

Houston is beyond the protected contour of KONO, so you have no expectation of being able to receive it. However, with NRSC, they should not be splattering as much as you are experiencing... but that is a technical issue. Since radios are nearly all digital today, splattering has a noxious effect of locking a scan onto an adjacent channel. No sensible station would do that on purpose as you suggest... and Liberman is a good and generally compliant broadcaster.