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KCDX Approved for Better Signal
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Of course, neither market will get a useful signal. Further, the signal is only protected from other stations, translators and LPFMs to its 60 dbu contour so this one has no value in Phoenix or Tucson.
95% of in-home and at work listening is inside the 65 dbu contour, anyway.
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Here's the answer to the recent Ted Tucker-related action from the FCC. Cochise Media Licenses LLC's unbuilt "KXML" in Ajo, Arizona, indeed has had a call letter change. The new calls letters are "DKXML". The CP was formally deleted on 04/26/2021 per an FCCdata.org entry. The earlier paperwork had been cancelled back in 2012 but might have somehow lived on in "tolling status" waiting for further coordination by the Mexican authorities. Apparently in the interim period the only thing accomplished was a call letter change from KXCD to KXML in November, 2018.
The station would have been a Class A at 102.9 running 200 watts at 21M HAAT.
The station would have been a Class A at 102.9 running 200 watts at 21M HAAT.
Good news ... KCDX streaming is indeed back. Now what about KTBX and all those other Tucker-owned Arizona rimshotters???
(Darn it - still formatted as a "chuncked" audio data stream #m3u8#, not fully compatible with older media players or some embedded Internet radios like those based on vTuner. Even VLCplayer can become unstable with an m3u8 feed, such as the "stop" button no longer working.)
(Darn it - still formatted as a "chuncked" audio data stream #m3u8#, not fully compatible with older media players or some embedded Internet radios like those based on vTuner. Even VLCplayer can become unstable with an m3u8 feed, such as the "stop" button no longer working.)
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While they were at it they should have canceled K233CX Nogales, a CP that ran out in 2017 and whose cause of death should read "94.5 became an assignment in Nogales, Sonora".
More creepy crawlies than people served by this (former) CP, I would think.
There might be cell phone towers out there that are taller.
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I'm pretty sure that Ted Tucker had a station in Ajo about 25 years ago and I think it was on 98.3. It didn't last long. A 1992 issue of the FCC allocations tables lists Channel 252 as being assigned to Ajo. That would be 98.3.
A much more recent development is that his KKYZ on 101.7 in Sierra Vista is now identifying as "Huachuca City, Sierra Vista" so the city of license is now Huachuca City. For years Tucker has had permission to move this station to various suburbs of Tucson but he keeps changing the application from one suburb to another, and the new station never goes on the air.
Tucker's 104.5 licensed to Vail is off the air.
A much more recent development is that his KKYZ on 101.7 in Sierra Vista is now identifying as "Huachuca City, Sierra Vista" so the city of license is now Huachuca City. For years Tucker has had permission to move this station to various suburbs of Tucson but he keeps changing the application from one suburb to another, and the new station never goes on the air.
Tucker's 104.5 licensed to Vail is off the air.
That's because the old Sierra Vista licensed facility is now authorized for 101.1/Catalina Foothills. We'll see what happens.
(Also out there, 1210 KEVT pulled the plug and turned in its license last week...)
Bummer .. As of today the KCDX website is down but I can still get to the audio stream via mytuner-radio.com and its entry for KCDX.
old post revisited...
Why?
It's the exact same ~2500 song playlist on a good portion of them it seems to me.
Streaming?! From any other Tucker-owned station?
Why?
It's the exact same ~2500 song playlist on a good portion of them it seems to me.
Hi all. Maybe David can explain - why is KQMR so much stronger than the others... My guess is lower on the mountain. For whatever reason, Univision stations way outperform their coverage on a map. KQMR is on the same mountain I believe as KIKO-FM and KRDE... no comparison. I still don't know why KHOT was downgraded to 40 KW. It was supposed to be 100kw.
KQMR is on a lower point of the mountain and they can afford better equipment than the other two stations (for example, KRDE occasionally sounds like its exciter has blown a capacitor). That can make a big difference in the signal.
As for KHOT, that's been a directional Class C2 station since 1998 (ironically, its directional pattern was to protect KIKO-FM when it was on 106.1). You might be thinking of KHOV, a Class C1. It's running 46kW because it's on a taller point than the 100kw specs for a C1 station.
I've never been able to play that chunked m3u8 format on anything other than the KCDX webpage, but I'll be danged.... after reading your comments and trying it out, it plays on my Grace Link radio.
I guess if you have a new enough platform you can access just about anything (and without phone call interruptions).
...been broken now for about a week. Now, not heard on TuneIn either.
Time to kick the server in the slats, I suppose.
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