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KNSJ countdown

AnonGirl said:
The sound was WAAAY better during the day, than at night.
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That is odd. FM propagation does not ordinarily change during the day. The only (and unfortunately all too frequent) modification of propagation in the San Diego area has to do with ducting and inversion layer related conditions.
 
Out of 193 countries, Sweden is the only Social Justice flagbearer?.. crippling tax rates and alcoholism included.
I wonder how hard it would be for a private group like ASD to obtain a station license in the "Ya, sure" Vikingdom?
KNSJ joins a list of back country stations- 100.1[(KBBN,unviable)now K-Love] which used a studio above the Santa Ysabel market;
the 300 watt 103.3 Potrero LPFM(gone after a year or so), KRLY,107.9(whats the point?), and KSIQ(ditto).
6/29/13 is quickly approaching..
 
KNSJ's been off the air for many days now. But when they were transmitting, I was surprised how good their signal was around La Mesa/Spring Valley. Could hear them very well driving on the 125 and 94 freeways around Spring St. But their signal weakened in La Mesa Village, and when I drove behind some small hills.

As for the audio quality, it sounded very muddy. But I'm assuming they were just testing the signal, and not worried about audio quality at this point.
 
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KNSJ joins a list of back country stations- 100.1[(KBBN,unviable)now K-Love] which used a studio above the Santa Ysabel market;
the 300 watt 103.3 Potrero LPFM(gone after a year or so), KRLY,107.9(whats the point?), and KSIQ(ditto).


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To serve their local community?
 
radiookc said:
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KNSJ joins a list of back country stations- 100.1[(KBBN,unviable)now K-Love] which used a studio above the Santa Ysabel market;
the 300 watt 103.3 Potrero LPFM(gone after a year or so), KRLY,107.9(whats the point?), and KSIQ(ditto).


To serve their local community?
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The city-grade signal covers 2,400 people. What sort of community exists to be served?

This is simply a station that exists because the only way to get a license was to pick some tiny town with no other station licensed to it. It does not seem to matter that the usable coverage misses about 98% or more of the San Diego metro.
 
radiookc said:
KNSJ joins a list of back country stations- 100.1[(KBBN,unviable)now K-Love] which used a studio above the Santa Ysabel market;
the 300 watt 103.3 Potrero LPFM(gone after a year or so), KRLY,107.9(whats the point?), and KSIQ(ditto).
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To serve their local community?
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I think they all hoped they'd somehow beat the laws of physics and get some sort of listenable signal into a populated area. These stations could not afford to "serve" their actual local community as the revenue is just not there to provide any real service (such as local news).
 
Yes, there is no way KNSJ would be a San Diego station and honestly I was concerned about their fundraising to build the station out. Hitting people up in North Park for donations was a stretch IMO. My comment was meant to be a general defense to the back country stations that are there to and do have some sort of community involvement in the areas they broadcast in.
 
"People Powered Radio" has signed on this a.m., with a song decrying EMF/RF, etc. etc. Song mic level quite high,causing extreme bass smashing.In mono.Atmospherics at this time have reduced the signal to my area, should improve after cloudiness dissipates. The ID was at 9:10..
The 'studio' is located on Old Chase, El Cajon, suite 'B',..must be the 2nd bedroom of the 4 br. house; probably a
drawer in the filing cabinet of the engineering company located there. I did not see the Sat dish there as of Monday.
Maybe at Wightman St.?
 
Big 121 said:
with a song decrying EMF/RF...
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I'm sure the irony of their generating useless RF escaped them. ::)

The website outlines the 4th of July dog and pony show (the video stream mentioned does not seem to be available on the site).

"KNSJ will be “Born on the 4th of July” initiating a full day of live broadcast plus audio and video streaming on KNSJ.org. The public is invited to come down to the World Beat Center at 2100 Park Boulevard in Balboa Park to celebrate a new day in our city. From 7-8 AM the broadcast will emanate out of Descanso with the voices of local mountain residents. In the late morning host Miriam Raftery, editor of the award-winning East County Magazine, will preview her regular show of news, information and cultural offerings. Former City Councilman, Floyd Morrow, has invited Mayor Bob Filner, San Diego City Council members and other community icons to celebrate the launching of the new listener-supported radio station. including Enrique Morones, Makeda Dread & Douglas Holbrook. Local musicians will offer firework-music until mid-night. KNSJ will pick up ongoing national programming from Pacifica, the BBC, Thom Hartman & Amy Goodman.

Efforts will be made throughout the day to raise the $35,000 (in pledges and on-line donations at KNSJ.org) to keep the station on the air and hire its first Station Manager."

The website lists "Mike Hancock" as news director. Isn't he a traffic reporter too.
 
NBC7 did a short piece about the station yesterday. You should be able to view it here:

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video/#!/news/top-stories/video-override/Community-Radio-Station-Launches/214338031
 
Pretty much dead air from 12 midnight until Friday morning. I adjusted my radio's antenna @8:30 am Friday and
listened to 60 mins(repeating) of social/political ballads, which has an air of left-wing paranoia; off-setting KOGO's
right-wing paranoia. I had to adjust the antenna orientation twice as the sun moved upwards. Inversion, and changing
sky scatter really affect the tilted beam's signal.
The stereo pilot was activated, although programming is in mono. RDS displays the callsign, and the sat feed seems
to be 7khz at best. NO station ID's heard for 2.7 hrs.
The July 4th broadcast from the World Beat Center did not mention Ms Makedas(the founder) previous pirate
broadcasting from there,back around 2000-2002.
 
Big 121 said:
KOGO's right-wing paranoia.
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I didn't know KOGO has a right wing paranoia. Except for Rush, which brings them listeners, the only station I can think of that has RW paranoia
is KCBQ. Oh! Anybody read Joe Nelson's puff piece on Mark Larson? I thought I was reading Cahrmichael again--puff and fluff, no hard questions like
"why KCBQ stopped subscribing to Arbitron?" 'When does he expect KCBQ to flip?
 
you guys are so funny :) Just call me and talk to me if you have suggestions....as it sounds like you do :)
 
The station sounds incredibly muddy, music sounds like it is being aired at 64KHz.

Not a good start for the station, in my opinion. You can pull off sounding like crap in a very small market, but not in a market like San Diego.
 
I was at a friend's house in Pt Loma overlooking San Diego Bay, about a mile or so from Nimitz & Chatsworth, watching the fireworks. As I was getting ready to go home, I checked ... and was able to receive the station with a fair signal on my Tecsun PL-398mp, with no external antenna (read: whip had broken, and has been removed for now).
Interestingly it's tougher at my house on the south side of the hill between El Cajon and Rancho San Diego, in spite of being much closer, but still doable. If I stand on the roof and hook up a 10+ foot piece of cable into the antenna input jack, throw it out over the roof, I can hear it there too.
 
Good point Mr_Diary. I completely forgot about KCBQ...

Reply to AnonGirl-
ASD is welcome to air it's choice of any programming/opinion it wishes. Just get the facts straight, please.
Example:
back in May an ASD rallly was held protesting the use of GMO corn.Quote from ASD=
[•Monsanto's GMO seeds are harmful to the environment; for example, scientists have indicated they
have caused colony collapse among the world's bee population.]

Scientists actually say that synthetic nicotine pesticides(neo-nicotinoids) are the culprit.
Bees do not pollinate corn.. it's self pollinating! Bees have nothing to do with corn...
GMO corn traits include the ability to tailor the plant-to-harvest time,allowing corn to succeed in northern states w/short summer cycles.
Increases in the naturally occuring protein in the STALKS,in which corn rootworms die when they consume it.
Also, the number of rows of kernels/ear can be increased, increasing plant efficiency.

GMO corn, and advanced farming methods, have allowed corn yield per acre to increase from about 46-60bu/acre
in the '60s, to 140bu, and in many cases over 200bu.

Our US farms literally feed the world. This, ASD, is called PROGRESS....
 
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