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KQMX 105.7 Lost Hills
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I found a studio address listed as 2511 M Street... same address as Estrella TV.. everything seems to point to it being "Que Buena" but I cant find any online prescence
They are at 4040 Easton Dr. Suite 1, Bakersfield, CA 93309
I'm not a regular listener, but KQMX can be received well in almost all of Bakersfield except maybe in the southeast at the base of the foothills.
Their tower is at 3409'asl (1250'haat), in the mountains almost directly west of Buttonwillow.
I stand corrected. Indeed, only to the direct South-Southeast does KQMX take a terrain hit to their coverage, a relatively unpopulated area. The Bakersfield Metro coverage seems to have clear LOS but it falls below 57dB protected contour. The engineering paperwork showed a Longley-Rice alternative calculation (SkyTower case) was used to validate Lost Hills community-of-license coverage.
I finally found a Facebook entry with several in-studio clips...Definitely worth a view.
https://m.facebook.com/1057fmbakersfield/
I finally found a Facebook entry with several in-studio clips...Definitely worth a view.
https://m.facebook.com/1057fmbakersfield/
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Can you get it easily on a home radio, indoors? The maps show it marginal for vehicles, nearly impossible in most buildings.
I just received KQMX on my Baofeng HT, on the 1st floor of a two story apartment building, on the east side of town by Oswell.
Walking around inside, there were a few spots with static, but it never faded out completely. Stepping outside, it was clear anywhere I walked.
If a cheap handheld HAM radio with an antenna tuned for 136 - 174 MHz can receive the signal, I assume most other home radios will also receive it.
KQMX appears to be running some format from westwood one.. they have Storq on a computer in the studio.. thats automation but i cant find what spanish format WW1 distributes/syndicates.. Storq is exclusive to WW1.. there is an older version called Airforce/Airtraffic control that was a standalone system sold by tim valley that he then sold off to Westwiood one
Look to the left of the host.. thats storq
https://www.facebook.com/1057fmbakersfield/videos/?ref=page_internal
At the end of last month, KLHC 1380 AM (Punjabi Radio) was granted a license to cover for translator K289CN on 105.7
250 watts directed north, with a tower by Cottonwood Road and the 58 freeway... the flats at the base of the hill.
So far I have not heard any testing / co-channel interference.
And I wanted to correct my earlier message. KQMX (for now) covers all of Bakersfield well, as far east as Weedpatch Hwy. Even south to Taft Highway/119.
The only area that fades out (in a car) was going south along the 5 or 99 towards the Grapevine. Where the highways dip elevation into the former Kern Lake bed.
250 watts directed north, with a tower by Cottonwood Road and the 58 freeway... the flats at the base of the hill.
So far I have not heard any testing / co-channel interference.
And I wanted to correct my earlier message. KQMX (for now) covers all of Bakersfield well, as far east as Weedpatch Hwy. Even south to Taft Highway/119.
The only area that fades out (in a car) was going south along the 5 or 99 towards the Grapevine. Where the highways dip elevation into the former Kern Lake bed.
KLHC is on 1350
I've heard it.. weakly.. at night here in Laramie, WY. I've heard several other of the Radio Punjab and Punabi Radio USa stations out here
KQMX is being sold to a Bakersfield-based De Alba Family Trust for $420,000. Deportes y Música Comunicaciones LLC bought the station in 2010 for $950,000. I guess that demonstrates the falling orice of radio properties. Of course, KQMX is a B1 Bakersfield rimshotter so their market coverage is somewhst constrained on Bakersfield's southside.
Another Lost Hills station, AGM's KEBT 96.9 "La Caliente", has just filed an application to move to a new tower to the southeast. The station will have a lower HAAT but compensate with an increase in ERP from 15.5 to 18.3kw ERP. There should be a very slight increase in coverage to Bakersfield, the target market. Unlike KQMX, KEBT's official coverage contour actually encompasses part of the city.
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