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Idaho KFFI-LP 103.1 Boise New Transmitter Site
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Is the green contour pretty accurate from you experience.
The problem with 14 watts is that even from a great location and incredible height it is still just 14 watts and is going to have a hard time outside of car radios.
The problem with 14 watts is that even from a great location and incredible height it is still just 14 watts and is going to have a hard time outside of car radios.
It's doing OK in a portable where I am on the fringes.
Or carry-on luggage!
I've found that the Boise FMs make it quite well to just short of McCall. They do surprisingly good down in the canyon along the river on 55.
Thanks for the info. I move at the end of July. I'm teaching 5th grade full-time this fall! I will be making the trip over there on July 1st however, as I will be meeting the superintendent in-person and also getting a look at the school and my new classroom 
Will have to check out KUJJ and KDZY while there. I like how you also get a full-time jazz FM there in McCall, 89.9 KBSK. Boise State operates it. Going through Spokane, listening to KEWU 89.5 is always a treat.
I will also have to find those huckleberries - and I hear Warm Lake is a great place to find them. As are several other trails in the area.
Anyhow, I see that KFFI is a Tropical station. That's an interesting format to have out there, even with the Hispanic minority - I'd think they would mostly be listening to rhythmic or Regional Mexican. Although I see Boise is just packed solid with stations, including LPs and translators.
Will have to check out KUJJ and KDZY while there. I like how you also get a full-time jazz FM there in McCall, 89.9 KBSK. Boise State operates it. Going through Spokane, listening to KEWU 89.5 is always a treat.
I will also have to find those huckleberries - and I hear Warm Lake is a great place to find them. As are several other trails in the area.
Anyhow, I see that KFFI is a Tropical station. That's an interesting format to have out there, even with the Hispanic minority - I'd think they would mostly be listening to rhythmic or Regional Mexican. Although I see Boise is just packed solid with stations, including LPs and translators.
Noticed while driving out in the county, the KTRP 1450 Notus ID translator K276GE 103.1 was still on, carrier only, causing havoc with KFFI-LP.
But I hear EAS duck-farts followed by a sever thunderstorm warning. EAS ends and back to dead air.
At least they're EAS legal! The 1450 AM's been off coming up to a year now.
But I hear EAS duck-farts followed by a sever thunderstorm warning. EAS ends and back to dead air.
At least they're EAS legal! The 1450 AM's been off coming up to a year now.
Why was it off? Was the tower site dismantled?
Congratulations on your new job! My oldest nephew retired this year after a long career as a 7th grade teacher and Spanish teacher, so I'm glad to see a new person join the profession!
"Tropical" is a Mexican name for a cumbia based format, and nearly all the music is from Monterrey, Mexico. It's a popular secondary format in most of Mexico. And since it is principally listened to by lower socio-economic class people in Mexico, it likely does better among immigrants who come from that group.
No. Seems to be lack of interest from the owners.
AM went off in a storm early spring of last year. Came back on months later with bad audio then went off again in August 2023.
Translator stayed on with programming until sometime mid winter, then it's been carrier only (no audio) since.
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Thanks for the info. I move at the end of July. I'm teaching 5th grade full-time this fall! I will be making the trip over there on July 1st however, as I will be meeting the superintendent in-person and also getting a look at the school and my new classroom
Will have to check out KUJJ and KDZY while there. I like how you also get a full-time jazz FM there in McCall, 89.9 KBSK. Boise State operates it. Going through Spokane, listening to KEWU 89.5 is always a treat.
I will also have to find those huckleberries - and I hear Warm Lake is a great place to find them. As are several other trails in the area.
Anyhow, I see that KFFI is a Tropical station. That's an interesting format to have out there, even with the Hispanic minority - I'd think they would mostly be listening to rhythmic or Regional Mexican. Although I see Boise is just packed solid with stations, including LPs and translators.
Congrats on your new teaching position! I haven't been up towards McCall, but I can see both Boise and McCall stations getting in clear in Cascade. McCall stations actually get out decently - I've had KUJJ, KDZY and occasionally KGSY and the BSPR stations come in at Baker City, Payette/Ontario, Bogus Basin north of Boise and even at Cottonwood Butte facing south.
At higher elevations, you may be able to pick up KCMB Baker City and KWRL La Grande, with Twin Falls, Tri-Cities (mainly the ones at Spout Springs like KXRX or KEGX, which is a high RDS injection) and Lewiston all possible depending on conditions and if you're on a slope facing these places. I doubt Pocatello would be able to make it across the mountains, but KZBQ 93.9 and KORR 104.1 both get out quite far, with KZBQ receivable west of Mountain Home.
Mountain diffraction is possible along with meteor scatter and tropo scatter, all of which I've had good luck with in Idaho as a whole, with both SLC and Portland being logged around the Kamiah/Kooskia vicinity.
Heading west on I-84 past Caldwell KCMB starts getting listenable.
Well, here in Corvallis MT, night 3 of the road trip, I've heard KEZJ-95.7 and KLIX-96.5 Twin Falls, KZBQ-93.9 Pocatello, likely KPDA-100.7 Mountain Home, KXLB-100.7 Bozeman, KSNA-100.7 Idaho Falls (see the pattern? All of them made it over KIBG Bigfork - streamless to this day, with an incredible classic hits playlist) and several Great Falls FMs in and out. No Boise FMs at all, and nothing from Utah (too far, maybe).
I'm in Cascade Monday afternoon...staying either in McCall or Ontario that night. But I have a very long drive through Lost Trail, Salmon, Challis, Stanley, etc. to get there.
I'm in Cascade Monday afternoon...staying either in McCall or Ontario that night. But I have a very long drive through Lost Trail, Salmon, Challis, Stanley, etc. to get there.
So here's the synopsis in Cascade, where I am moving to. It really depends on where in town you are, but the strongest Boise FMs are 90.3, 93.1, 94.9, 96.1, 96.9, 97.9, 101.9, 103.5, 104.3, 106.3 (Homedale) and 107.9. In fact, I still get HD hash on a few of them because they do so well making it over the canyon and mountains.
Here in McCall, they are weaker and multipathed.
I'm amazed at how weak KTHI is to the north (107.1 Hank FM). They barely make it to Cascade. I heard them 300+ miles away on a 6,000 ft. mountain in WA recently!! 105.1 also terrible in the Donnelly/Cascade valley.
Even with that, there are tons and tons of channels that are wide open. Baker City makes it in on 88.9 (KOBK), 91.9 (KESY), 104.7 (KCMB) and 102.3 (KWRL). KARO, Air 1, Nyssa OR, blocks KUBQ-98.7. A decent E-skip opening to the top of the band would wipe out several Boise frequencies here and a strong opening would wipe out 3-4 more, so it's a DX paradise (paging DXSphere). I expect plenty of meteor scatter if I invest in an autologger and/or overnight recordings of SDR spectrum during the Perseids, Geminids, and Quadrantids events.
It's like how Boise was, before all those LPs and AM translators clogged the band.
Here in McCall, they are weaker and multipathed.
I'm amazed at how weak KTHI is to the north (107.1 Hank FM). They barely make it to Cascade. I heard them 300+ miles away on a 6,000 ft. mountain in WA recently!! 105.1 also terrible in the Donnelly/Cascade valley.
Even with that, there are tons and tons of channels that are wide open. Baker City makes it in on 88.9 (KOBK), 91.9 (KESY), 104.7 (KCMB) and 102.3 (KWRL). KARO, Air 1, Nyssa OR, blocks KUBQ-98.7. A decent E-skip opening to the top of the band would wipe out several Boise frequencies here and a strong opening would wipe out 3-4 more, so it's a DX paradise (paging DXSphere). I expect plenty of meteor scatter if I invest in an autologger and/or overnight recordings of SDR spectrum during the Perseids, Geminids, and Quadrantids events.
It's like how Boise was, before all those LPs and AM translators clogged the band.
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