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KBSZ A.J.
- Thread starter oldiesfan6479
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I've enjoyed reading about Rock and Roll 1260's startup. Their transmitter site is just over 5 miles east-southeast of me.
I listened Sunday and Sunday night to the station, and I was curious to see what 50 watts sounds like on the AM radio. I am able to get it loud and clear on my tabletop radio, but it could be that it was being helped by my 55-foot vertical that I had connected to my ICOM 735. I later took the outdoor antenna off of the ICOM and put it on my HD radio so that I can listen to AM radio on it.
This morning they are off the air at 4:15, but I put the antenna back on the ICOM to determine that the carrier is on, just no audio, as of 4:30. No 5:15 AM with still no audio.
Reception around 3 AM the last two nights has Mexico and talk-radio trading places in the background, but KBSZ was still usable.
I live just east of the 202 and north of 60. not far from the SupRedTan stack.
Audio just came on at 5:15 AM with a Rock and Roll Radio positioner, and some music following.
I downloaded the instruction manual for their antenna, and told a friend about the antenna they are using. First thing to come to him was a giant rubber duck! But I shared with him the ground grid details. He is working on putting some wire fence strips under his ham antenna, using a fence stock with bonded joints.
I listened Sunday and Sunday night to the station, and I was curious to see what 50 watts sounds like on the AM radio. I am able to get it loud and clear on my tabletop radio, but it could be that it was being helped by my 55-foot vertical that I had connected to my ICOM 735. I later took the outdoor antenna off of the ICOM and put it on my HD radio so that I can listen to AM radio on it.
This morning they are off the air at 4:15, but I put the antenna back on the ICOM to determine that the carrier is on, just no audio, as of 4:30. No 5:15 AM with still no audio.
Reception around 3 AM the last two nights has Mexico and talk-radio trading places in the background, but KBSZ was still usable.
I live just east of the 202 and north of 60. not far from the SupRedTan stack.
Audio just came on at 5:15 AM with a Rock and Roll Radio positioner, and some music following.
I downloaded the instruction manual for their antenna, and told a friend about the antenna they are using. First thing to come to him was a giant rubber duck! But I shared with him the ground grid details. He is working on putting some wire fence strips under his ham antenna, using a fence stock with bonded joints.
I went over to 1260 to help before the publicized air-date. I heard unscheduled music and a lonely peak-limiter. A real decent construction guy let me in the transmitter room where Jeffrey was on a cellphone. He hung-up and ushered me out. I identified myself as Robert Leembruggen, Orban's lead technician, and offered to help. Jeffery was the deer and I was the headlight. I apologized for interrupting his day and left. I had an Optimod 9100 and 5TB of music in my car. I'm guessing the inter-mod generator they have for a transmitter will be replaced at some point. The lack of audio overlap is offensive. There is zero momentum going on here.
RL said:
Does that explain why--in the past week or two--1260 has not been as loud ("sound,"
not signal strength on a meter) in the 'Tuke as Lumberyard 1440 is during daytime?
And as I was composing the above, somebody just powered KBSZ down at 7:13 PM,
not waiting for June's 7:30.
RL said:
I've also noticed that the streaming provider that the station is using is very unreliable. I've attempted to volunteer my knowledge to help them on this, but I get the feeling that they are on a shoestring budget and they will live with their encoder crashing once or twice a day to save some money.
Like I said before, I want them to succeed (and from your gesture, you want the same). Jeffry and company just need to open up to suggestions.
The pending 1260 construction permit for 3500-Watts has possibilities if they will be using plate modulated rigs. 5000-Watt rigs have 2500-Watt modulators (50%) of RF. At 3500-Watts output the modulator has (71%) of RF. This RF/MOD ratio hits +125% all day without fatigue. While this does not apply to solid-state pulse-width-modulation, it is more musical sounding especially with a fat Jensen transformer at the input.
In several listens since around 4:30 PM, KBSZ seems to be running night power
(or something considerably less than 800 watts). Weak signal in the 'Tuke, with
no bars on the Sangean 909 meter (normally four bars), and nowhere near as
loud as Lumberyard 1440.
Also noticed a change in at least some of their sweepers--"Rock and Roll Radio"
instead of "Rock and Roll 1260."
Closed circuit to Jeffry, et al...maybe your target A.J./East Mesa audience wants
to hear them, but those '50s moldy oldies are such a train wreck, intermixed with
the rest of the playlist.
(or something considerably less than 800 watts). Weak signal in the 'Tuke, with
no bars on the Sangean 909 meter (normally four bars), and nowhere near as
loud as Lumberyard 1440.
Also noticed a change in at least some of their sweepers--"Rock and Roll Radio"
instead of "Rock and Roll 1260."
Closed circuit to Jeffry, et al...maybe your target A.J./East Mesa audience wants
to hear them, but those '50s moldy oldies are such a train wreck, intermixed with
the rest of the playlist.
BTW I discovered the coverage area maps for KBSZ from Radio-Locator:
Daytime: http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KBSZ&service=AM&status=C&hours=D
Night: http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KBSZ&service=AM&status=C&hours=N
And I agree about the lousy playlist and the slowed down music is annoying. You don't go from 50's Elvis into early 70's CSNY without having a liner/jingle/DJ talk to break them up.
Daytime: http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KBSZ&service=AM&status=C&hours=D
Night: http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KBSZ&service=AM&status=C&hours=N
And I agree about the lousy playlist and the slowed down music is annoying. You don't go from 50's Elvis into early 70's CSNY without having a liner/jingle/DJ talk to break them up.
Another train wreck at Rock 'n Roll 12~Sixty to report: Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple into Wonderful World by Sam Cooke. YIKES! Nurse Jeff and I are befuddled as to how this could have happened. On page 128 of the Buckeye Media Hut programming manual is a warning that Smoke On The Water can never be played on Ancient Modulation. The staff of 12~Sixty will have to accept full responsibility!
Dr. Akbar said:
Lessee here...the theory of Peak Musical Awareness says we're most plugged in to songs from when we were 16 to 22.
Smoke On The Water was a hit 37 years ago....so the youngest PMA is 53....the oldest 59....
Hey! This should be in power rotation on KOY!
michael hagerty said:
Then that's gotta make Wonderful World most appealing to the prime 66-72 age demo. Hmmmm...sounds 'bout right for KayOhWhy, but we'd better run this by the Old Gringo before calling Danny Davis :
Now how can we separate the obvious clash between Deep Purple and Sam Cooke? Would would one of those snappy 50~Five Feenix 12~Thirty KayOhWhy jingles do the job?Dr. Akbar said:michael hagerty said:
Then that's gotta make Wonderful World most appealing to the prime 66-72 age demo. Hmmmm...sounds 'bout right for KayOhWhy, but we'd better run this by the Old Gringo before calling Danny Davis :
Or just insert a song from somewhere in between those two...let's see...1960 for Sam Cooke...1973 for Deep Purple...something from mid-1966 (for the 60-66 year olds) would do the trick....
Wild Thing by the Troggs.
Call Danny.
Personally, I love the 'mash-ups' between totally different genres and eras. Reminds me of a channel on Sirius satellite--don't know if it survived the Sirius/XM merger as the only times I've heard satellite is when renting vehicles so equipped--that did just that.
Loved cruising along listening to Carpenters followed by LL Cool J followed by Tim McGraw followed by Foo Fighters...
So much more entertaining and less boring than the prevalent consultant-driven "ooh, we can't play that and possibly annoy a listener" radio.
Loved cruising along listening to Carpenters followed by LL Cool J followed by Tim McGraw followed by Foo Fighters...
So much more entertaining and less boring than the prevalent consultant-driven "ooh, we can't play that and possibly annoy a listener" radio.
If you think the trainwrecks on 1260 are disturbing, you oughta hear my Part 15 yardcaster! Like Landtuna, I like it that way.
Seems to work for KCDX also...
There was a time when we didn't have "rules" about playing certain things back-to-back. Freeform, anyone?
Kind of refreshing compared to the vanilla on the air in most presentations today...
Seems to work for KCDX also...
There was a time when we didn't have "rules" about playing certain things back-to-back. Freeform, anyone?
Kind of refreshing compared to the vanilla on the air in most presentations today...
I've been listening via their Stream and I think the station sounds pretty good.
I Hear You Knockin' By Dave Edmunds Sounded a little slow. But all of the other songs sounded normal speed. You guy's must be used to faster playback of them.
Out here I don't recall any station ever speeding up the songs (Dallas, TX)
I Hear You Knockin' By Dave Edmunds Sounded a little slow. But all of the other songs sounded normal speed. You guy's must be used to faster playback of them.
Out here I don't recall any station ever speeding up the songs (Dallas, TX)
On the Big BSZ stream just now...
Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John sounded slow.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles)--yeah, a bit slow.
Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John sounded slow.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles)--yeah, a bit slow.
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