Formats flips or tweaks In 2012

[davideduardo]

I did some calculations. Class A FM stations on the same frequency must be spaced 71 miles from each other. There is a wiggle room of 8.41 miles to the current KKUU site in the Palm Springs market and 6.81 miles to the "Jill", or now "Playlist" OC site. The city of license must stay Adelanto as it is the only radio service to the community. I am not familiar with any viable transmitter sites within that window, that would shoot a signal down to the IE, but there might be (?)

The question is, "why would they want to?" The IE is not as a rule bought with the LA market, and achieving only fringe coverage of the IE has no use or purpose.

 

[ChannelFlipper]

I did some calculations. Class A FM stations on the same frequency must be spaced 71 miles from each other. There is a wiggle room of 8.41 miles to the current KKUU site in the Palm Springs market and 6.81 miles to the "Jill", or now "Playlist" OC site. The city of license must stay Adelanto as it is the only radio service to the community. I am not familiar with any viable transmitter sites within that window, that would shoot a signal down to the IE, but there might be (?)

The question is, "why would they want to?" The IE is not as a rule bought with the LA market, and achieving only fringe coverage of the IE has no use or purpose.

Plus, wouldn't much of the area covered comprise of the Upland/Rancho Cucamonga/Ontario radio no-mans land?

 

[MarioMania]

Translators are a secondary service, bumpable when a station moves in.

The FM band is already packed in the LA Area

 

[ronkaram]

How come in other countries in Europe, etc, they can space FM's using the .even numbers as well. Like Mix-fm in Lebanon is 104.4. All stations in the US end with .odd numbers. Also the AM's are closer together as well, instead of a 10 numbers they are separated by 9.

 

[the_wanderer]

How did KOST get to number 1 in one cycle?

 

[davideduardo]

How did KOST get to number 1 in one cycle?

KOST "gets to number 1" every year starting the week of Thanksgiving when they play only Christmas music until Christmas day.

 

[davideduardo]

How come in other countries in Europe, etc, they can space FM's using the .even numbers as well. Like Mix-fm in Lebanon is 104.4. All stations in the US end with .odd numbers. Also the AM's are closer together as well, instead of a 10 numbers they are separated by 9.

1. Different countries have different technical standards for station allocation, particularly on FM which has line of sight coverage. In many parts of the world, ranging from Colombia to Lebanon, allocations are not always on odd 0.2 mHz intervals.

2. Outside the Western Hemisphere AM is spaced at 9 kHz. Much of this has to do with the fact that in most of the rest of the world, AM was in the past predominantly government operated with mostly higher power stations and fewer of them. Closer separation accommodated more channels and fit this model.

 

[Lopaka]

This sort of brings up the topic of international radio, which brings to mind TuneIn. Probably most people on this site are familiar with it but if you aren't, you can access streams from hundreds of stations around the world, you can listen to a symphony from Berlin or jazz from Moscow or the traffic from Nairobi, it is amazing. I like listening to the latest Polynesian hits from the Australasia stations.

 

[Jay Walker]

My "app" for shortwave listening is a bit more old school than "TuneIn".
I chose from my late 40's vintage National NC240D, or the various Hammerlund HQ129X or the HQ140X receivers.
If I'm really slumming I use the tube type Zenith Trans-Oceanic ;D