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Is it just my radio, or...

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musicman3355

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...does X-107.5 have the worse signal in LV? The signal is terrible inside the strip with a walkman. Anyone having the same issue?
 
107.5 is one of several signals that transmit from Mount Potosi. (88.9, 89.7, 93.1, 97.1 and 104.3 are the others.)

At more than 8000 feet above sea level, Potosi has phenomenal line-of-sight coverage that allows the signals up there to be heard at huge distances from Las Vegas. You can carry the Potosi FMs in the car down I-15 most of the way to Baker, and up I-15 into Arizona. But Potosi is also much more distant from Vegas than Black Mountain above Henderson, where the rest of the full-market FMs (88.1, 90.5, 91.5, 92.3, 94.1, 95.5, 96.3, 98.5, 100.5, 101.9, 102.7, 103.5, 106.5) are located. The Black Mountain FMs lack the enormous coverage area of the Potosi FMs, but they have more raw power and are much closer to the Strip, and so they come in significantly better there than the Potosi signals do.

In addition, the tall buildings on the Strip cause an enormous amount of multipath reflection on all FM signals, but more so on the Potosi FMs than the Black Mountain signals. The Strip was notorious as one of the worst FM spots in the country even before the high-powered boosters (105.7, etc.) started to sign on from the Stratosphere. Those just made a bad situation worse.
 
I used to listen to Howard Stern on 107.5 from the St George, UT area where that station (was it KFBI?) had the best LV signal in the area. Could get it most of the way to Cedar City!
 
Whenever I hear complaints about reception on the strip, I immediately think TOURIST. The locals spend as little time as possible on the strip, so local stations don't worry about their reception down there as much.
 
Thanks Scott... now I see why all the other stations sound fine.

I just came back from Vegas, I was really surprised to see KFRH's signal lasting all the way to Hesperia... the Black Mountain stations lasted by the time I got a the Stateline.
 
Well put Mr. Fybush. I've received our two Potosi stations with listenable though weak signals all the way to the head of the Cajon pass in Victorville. Doubt anyone else would have listened that far, but I take pride. By the way, 92.3 KOMP is on Potosi, not Henderson. I think you had pictures of our z20 in your coverage of that hill, which was excellent by the way. Multipath, building penetration, crappy headphone antennas and typically cheap hotel radios, make the tourist experience of radio in LV less than good. THe Henderson signals have about 25 less miles to cover compared to Potosi. Our KWID (101.9 Hispanic oldies) on Mt. Henderson has been running at 25% power (6 KW TPO) for the last several months under an FCC STA pending our move to Arden and a new nv20 TX. It still was number 2 overall in the ratings recently.

BIll Croghan, Cheif Engineer Lotus Las Vegas.
 
Why the move to Arden? Is this a move that the other black mountain stations are considering too?
 
The move to Arden is a wholly independent choice for Lotus broadcasting. Complete details would bore most of the board but the fact that we have our own tower and building on Arden as opposed to paying rent on Henderson is high on the list. The station was aquired in a trade with Clear Channel a couple years ago and we've had problems with things ever since. There are other issues revolving around Henderson's old coax, an antenna tuned off frequency that was previuosly used to diplex other stations and some deeper tech stuff. Arden will be a new Transmitter, antenna, coax and system on our own tower.
 
Lazy J said:
Whenever I hear complaints about reception on the strip, I immediately think TOURIST. The locals spend as little time as possible on the strip, so local stations don't worry about their reception down there as much.
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The Strip does seem like the worst location of examples of "reception issues" you could pick, at least for LV. How many people are listening to the radio there? :)
 
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