HOUSTON FM RADIO HEARD IN DALLAS

[OldChicago]

Although I live in Houston, I came to Dallas for a few days to drop off some resumes at some of the stations in town. When I woke up Tuesday morning, I was tuning around, and received FM stations
coming in from Houston! Signals were quite good, considering I was only using a Sony Walkman
cassette player that was several years old.


Old Chicago

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Although I live in Houston, I came to Dallas for a few days to drop off some resumes at some of the stations in town. When I woke up Tuesday morning, I was tuning around, and received FM stations
coming in from Houston! Signals were quite good, considering I was only using a Sony Walkman
cassette player that was several years old.


Old Chicago

Depends on where you are - unfortunately the Houston frequencies are almost all re-used in Dallas. Before KSKY decided to jam 92.9, it was easy to get Houston on that frequency. In the late 70's, KRBE was really strong over the Southern parts of the metroplex. I heard that they showed up in the DFW ratings from time to time. I just don't know too many Houston stations that have a clear shot now, especially with the HD radio jamming first adjacents. 96.5 would have a clear shot if it wasn't for HD. 93.7 used to be dominated by KLBJ Austin before the local 93.7 signed on. 95.7 works on occasion, but there are too many closer 95.7's

Other Houston frequencies jammed in DFW - 94.5, (97.1), 97.5, 97.9, 99.1, 100.3, 100.7, 101.1, 102.1, 102.9, 103.3, 103.7, 107.5, and some more by rim shots near DFW. Not a lot of potential without some extreme skip overriding locals and rim shots.

 

[Gopher]

I miss being able to pick up 100.5 out of OKC from time to time.

 

[Huff]

In the late 70's, KRBE was really strong over the Southern parts of the metroplex. I heard that they showed up in the DFW ratings from time to time.

No Houston station has ever shown up in the DFW ratings. For that matter, the last time any station from outside the market showed up in a local ratings survey was 1971 when what was then KWFT/620 Wichita Falls (now KMKI/620 Plano) showed up in the Fort Worth book.

 

[Triple Fake Jerry]

One night a couple of years ago I had KPFT totally dominate KERA in Collin County. Some kind of death metal was playing on top of the BBC. Very strong tropo that night.

 

[purpledevil]

I had family in Corsicana growing up, and clearly remember KRBE making it up there as well. Keep in mind though, KRBE moved clear across town to Senior Road taking it another 20 miles or so away from D/FW in the 80's. I'm pretty sure moving it off of One Shell didn't help its penetration that far north of Houston.

 

[OldChicago]

Although I live in Houston, I came to Dallas for a few days to drop off some resumes at some of the stations in town. When I woke up Tuesday morning, I was tuning around, and received FM stations
coming in from Houston! Signals were quite good, considering I was only using a Sony Walkman
cassette player that was several years old.


Old Chicago

Depends on where you are - unfortunately the Houston frequencies are almost all re-used in Dallas. Before KSKY decided to jam 92.9, it was easy to get Houston on that frequency. In the late 70's, KRBE was really strong over the Southern parts of the metroplex. I heard that they showed up in the DFW ratings from time to time. I just don't know too many Houston stations that have a clear shot now, especially with the HD radio jamming first adjacents. 96.5 would have a clear shot if it wasn't for HD. 93.7 used to be dominated by KLBJ Austin before the local 93.7 signed on. 95.7 works on occasion, but there are too many closer 95.7's

Other Houston frequencies jammed in DFW - 94.5, (97.1), 97.5, 97.9, 99.1, 100.3, 100.7, 101.1, 102.1, 102.9, 103.3, 103.7, 107.5, and some more by rim shots near DFW. Not a lot of potential without some extreme skip overriding locals and rim shots.

I was in Addison, and was getting 88.7 KUHF and 106.9, which is actually north of Houston.

Old Chicago
a little north of Houston