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KSIQ- Campo or San Diego?

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Big 121

It's easy, Licensed to CAMPO, not San Diego. If that's the case, why are they not on the air programming in Campo,
but their booster on Mt Miguel is? Two trips to the Buckman Springs area over the last 2 weeks and NO audio from
the Morena site(and still on real low wattage). Definitly a major FCC violation....
Noticed the spots on KSIQ, touting their coverage? Done from some out of area agency... they can't properly
pronounce our local citys' names. Descanso comes out "Des-Kon-so", and our La Jolla is "La-whole-la" .
Tune in the VIBE, 103.3 Santa Barbara, and compare it to KSIQ....

Big121
 
I actually took a trip to SD today just to travel the city, so first thing I did when I got there is check out the stations and tune to 96.1. Q96 actually doesn't sound so bad actually, I got strong coverage in downtown. Though, I don't think I even got it in Oceanside and Escondido. They need to fix up the signal, but they sound pretty good, probably even major-market fitting. I haven't listened to 103.3 The Vibe, as I can't get the signal anywhere. 103.3 is full static in the LA area...
 
I don't know about a major market station.. I've always thought of jingles as kind of a small market thing. But that might just be me.

KSIQ just doesn't have a clean, crisp sound. That station would be good for Oldies or Classic Rock or or News or Talk or Sports Talk. But for Pop music, you have to have a better clarity that the 96.1 frequency is just not pulling off.
 
Radio3787 said:
I don't know about a major market station.. I've always thought of jingles as kind of a small market thing.
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Most truly small market stations can not afford jingles...
 
Radio3787 said:
I've always thought of jingles as kind of a small market thing.
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KRTH anyone?
 
Radio3787 said:
I don't know about a major market station.. I've always thought of jingles as kind of a small market thing. But that might just be me.

KSIQ just doesn't have a clean, crisp sound. That station would be good for Oldies or Classic Rock or or News or Talk or Sports Talk. But for Pop music, you have to have a better clarity that the 96.1 frequency is just not pulling off.
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So, WPLJ, WHTZ and WCBS FM are small market stations then?
How about WXKS FM in Boston?

For that matter, since when is a signal that is not clean or crisp only good for Top 40 but not Classic Rock or Classic Hits?

On what do you base these ideas that you have?
 
Radio3787 said:
No I'm saying it's NOT good for Top 40. ;)

and, yes, WCBS is a small market station. ;D
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No, WCBS is not a small market station. Am I missing some kind of joke?

Let me rephrase my first question:
Where is it written that a poor signal is acceptable for one music format and not another?
You say "that signal would be better for classic rock," etc. It is unfair to presume that classic rock or oldies (classic hits) listeners deserve to have their listening forced on a lousy signal simply because you prefer a different format. You make this claim because you like Top 40. The bad news is, everyone is not like you, and your taste isn't better than someone elses.
 
I like Top 40? That's quite an assumption. An inaccurate one at that.

I think Top 40 is repetitive and lackluster. However, it has a richer sound. Oldies music shows much more talent but it does not require a high-quality sound. Many Oldies stations are on AM and do perfectly fine at that. The audio is duller (mono) on oldies tracks than on modern hit music.

As far as WCBS, I was being sarcastic because you asked a silly question..

I'm not here to judge formats or taste in music, I admire all kinds of music styles.
 
Radio3787 said:
I like Top 40? That's quite an assumption. An inaccurate one at that.

I think Top 40 is repetitive and lackluster. However, it has a richer sound. Oldies music shows much more talent but it does not require a high-quality sound. Many Oldies stations are on AM and do perfectly fine at that. The audio is duller (mono) on oldies tracks than on modern hit music.

As far as WCBS, I was being sarcastic because you asked a silly question..

I'm not here to judge formats or taste in music, I admire all kinds of music styles.
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An oldies format is about the hardest to process. They typically mix songs from the late 50's into the 70's where recording techniques changed dramatically, and music went from being produced for AM to FM. Some oldies are indeed mono, some were mixed music left vocals right, and some were mixed in excellent stereo. It's a major challenge to find a sweet spot with any audio chain to make everything sound good.
 
My point is, in this day and age I don't see how it is acceptable for ANY format to be on a lousy signal. EVERY station would be best on a good solid FM signal. I used to think that talk was better on AM. But having had to struggle to listen to AM stations in office buildings or late at night (when other AM stations bleed through), I no longer see the viability of AM, and I think that all stations should have a good FM signal. There is just no compromise in my view. Either you can hear a station cleanly, or you can't.
 
Garrett said:
My point is, in this day and age I don't see how it is acceptable for ANY format to be on a lousy signal. EVERY station would be best on a good solid FM signal. I used to think that talk was better on AM. But having had to struggle to listen to AM stations in office buildings or late at night (when other AM stations bleed through), I no longer see the viability of AM, and I think that all stations should have a good FM signal. There is just no compromise in my view. Either you can hear a station cleanly, or you can't.
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Sorry to rain on your parade, but it's because of this day and age that there are so many crappy signals. Overcrowding of the dial by things like 80-90, LPFM, marginal move-ins (KSIQ) and too lax regulations on short spacing, grandfathered power levels and everyone trying to get rich on signals that used to print money is exactly why you have lousy signals. Put the disease known as iBiquity on top of many of those FM's and now you've got even more interference and garbage where a few years ago you had something listenable. Now take crappy cookie cutter programming, voice tracking and horrible squished audio and you might want to buy some stock in Apple iPods. Some of the stations in TJ that used to be required to protect San Diego stations have now had some of their restrictions lifted, if they were even being followed anyway. Add that to the noise between the channels of the L.A. stations that get into the San Diego market, spew IBOC hash around the dial and be happy you can hear anything at all.
 
RadeoEngineer said:
Garrett said:
My point is, in this day and age I don't see how it is acceptable for ANY format to be on a lousy signal. EVERY station would be best on a good solid FM signal. I used to think that talk was better on AM. But having had to struggle to listen to AM stations in office buildings or late at night (when other AM stations bleed through), I no longer see the viability of AM, and I think that all stations should have a good FM signal. There is just no compromise in my view. Either you can hear a station cleanly, or you can't.
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Sorry to rain on your parade, but it's because of this day and age that there are so many crappy signals. Overcrowding of the dial by things like 80-90, LPFM, marginal move-ins (KSIQ) and too lax regulations on short spacing, grandfathered power levels and everyone trying to get rich on signals that used to print money is exactly why you have lousy signals. Put the disease known as iBiquity on top of many of those FM's and now you've got even more interference and garbage where a few years ago you had something listenable. Now take crappy cookie cutter programming, voice tracking and horrible squished audio and you might want to buy some stock in Apple iPods. Some of the stations in TJ that used to be required to protect San Diego stations have now had some of their restrictions lifted, if they were even being followed anyway. Add that to the noise between the channels of the L.A. stations that get into the San Diego market, spew IBOC hash around the dial and be happy you can hear anything at all.
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I sell on Ebay and recently found and sold a Sansui TU-717 tuner a 1980's vintage item that sells for about $150 these days. Of course, lots of folks would rightfully wonder why you'd pay 150 for something that just tunes in AM and FM radio, but when I plugged it into an amp and antenna to test it, it blew me away: I had forgotten how radio could sound and I can see that in this day and age something like this goes a long way in buffering the imperfections of modern radio. When you connect it to a decent amp and speakers, it makes the typical car radio sound like one of those old six transistors pocket radios of the 60's.
 
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