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Is Griffin Park Observatory has one of the best location in Los Angeles Metro to picked up all of Southern California radio?

So far I've picked up these stations from Griffin Park Observatory.

KKJZ - 88.1 Long Beach
KCSN - 88.5 Northridge
KSPC 88.7 Clairmont
KXLU 88.9 Los Angeles
KPCC 89.3 Pasadena
KPBS 89.5 San Diego
KRCW 89.9 Santa Monica
XHITZ 90.3 Tijuana/San Diego
KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles
XETRA 91.1 Tijuana/San Diego
KUSC 91.5 Los Angeles
XHGLX 91.7 Tijuana / San Diego
KVCR 91.9 Riverside
KHHT 92.3 Los Angeles
XHRM 92.5 Tijuana/San Diego
KJLL 92.7 Fountain Valley
KCBS 93.1 Los Angeles
KHTS 93.3 El Cajon
KDAY 93.5 Redondo Beach
KXOS 93.9 Los Angeles
KMYI 94.1 San Diego
KEBN or KBUA 94.3 San Fernando Valley/Garden Grove ?
KWVE 94.7 Los Angeles
KBZT 94.9 San Diego
KFGY 95.1 San Bernardino
XHHIT 95.3 Tecate
KLOS 95.5 Los Angeles
KUSS 95.7 San Diego
KFSH 95.9 La Mirada
KRQB 96.1 San Janicito
KXOL 96.3 Los Angeles
KYXY 96.5 San Diego
KWIZ 96.7 Santa Ana
KAMP 97.1 Los Angeles
KSON 97.3 San Diego
KLYY 97.5 San Bernardino
KLAX 97.9 East Los Angeles
KIFM 98.1 San Diego
KRCV 98.3 West Covina
KYSR 98.7 Los Angeles
XHMORE 98.9 Tijuana/San Diego
KGGI 99.1 San Bernardino
XHOCL 99.3 Tijuana/San Diego
KKLA 99.5 Los Angeles
XHTY 99.7 Tijuana / San Diego
KOLA 99.9 Riverside
KSWD 100.3 Los Angeles
KFMB 100.7 San Diego
KRTH 101.1 Los Angeles
KGB 101.5 San Diego
KSCA 101.9 Glendale
KPRI 102.1 Encinitas
KJLH 102.3 Compton
XHUA 102.5 Tijuana
KIIS 102.7 Los Angeles
KRCD 102.9 San Diego
KDLD 103.1 Santa Monica
KVBE 103.3 Santa Barbara
KOST 103.5 Los Angeles
KSCF 103.7 San Diego
KRCD 103.9 Inglewood
KBIG 104.3 Los Angeles
XHLTN 104.5 Tijuana/San Diego
KCAQ 104.7 Ventura
XHLNC 104.9 Tijuana / San Diego
KKGO 105.1 Los Angeles
KIOZ 105.3 San Diego
KBUE 105.5 Long Beach
XHPRS 105.7 Tecate / San Diego
KPWR 105.9 Los Angeles
KALI 106.3 Santa Ana
KLNV 106.5 San Diego
KROQ 106.7 Pasadena
KSSE 107.1 Arcadia
XHFG 107.3 Tijuana/San Diego
KLVE 107.5 Los Angeles
XHURST 107.7 Tijuana / San Diego
KWVE 107.9 San Clemente
 
You mean Griffith Park?

Wow...that's the most i've seen....I gots to go up there and check it out myself
 
What kind of set up, receiver and antenna? I would think that KYSR, 98.7, which is fairly nearby would stomp all over a 98.9 out of TJ.
 
Depending on the exact parking location, terrain could shield KYSR and make first adjacent channel reception possible nearby. That could also apply to the Mount Wilson stations since they could be knocked down a bit from the hill.
 
I'm also thinking that the weather has something to do with the SD stations coming in so strong. When I was a student at UCLA and even here at my house in Azusa, the San Diego stations seems to come loud and clear when it is a hot clear day. Sometimes they even overpower LA stations. But as soon the the weather changes I lost most of them.
 
Greg Strickland said:
Depending on the exact parking location, terrain could shield KYSR and make first adjacent channel reception possible nearby. That could also apply to the Mount Wilson stations since they could be knocked down a bit from the hill.
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I was curious about the setup because even with terrestrial shielding you would need some kind of antenna with a bit of directionality. Auto receivers are good for picking out signals but the antennas that are standard basically suck.

Posted by: Neel Mehta

I'm also thinking that the weather has something to do with the SD stations coming in so strong. When I was a student at UCLA and even here at my house in Azusa, the San Diego stations seems to come loud and clear when it is a hot clear day. Sometimes they even overpower LA stations. But as soon the the weather changes I lost most of them.
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I used to get that in North Hollywood at times and it seemed to favor San Diego. I always attributed it to tropospheric conditions during very settled warm weather with a high pressure system laying over the Southland which corresponds to your observation. I noticed that more in California than back in Ohio, where E-Layer skip used to bring in Cuban TV stations near Dayton. However I do recall getting Indianapolis TV by turning our antenna which could have been likely the weather as it only happened at certain times of the year and it didn't fade quickly like the Cuban TV did which sometimes lasted only a couple of minutes. The Indiana stations might come in for a day or two, snowy but watchable, before disappearing again.

I never tried FM back then though sometimes I would use the big TV antenna to see how far I could pick up from, usually no more than a hundred or rarely a hundred and fifty miles. But Ohio is very flat compared to California. In the fifties and sixties most FM stations back there were on their co-owned AM towers so not very high up from the ground.
 
You'll be surprised, but I used my I-Pod Nano 5th Generation at the top of Griffith Park Observatory. I'm surprise this little device can pick up adjacent channels clearly.
 
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