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KSIQ files for 5kw booster

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On March 31, the KSIQ owners requested a Special Temporary Authority (STA) to move and operate the booster transmitter with temporary facilities from an alternate site. The site proposed is west of Sweetwater Reservoir, about four miles west of the Mount San Miguel booster location. The STA request also includes an increase in transmitter power, from .7 kw to 5 kw. This request was granted on April 5. The station will use a temporary antenna.

The station's booster is not on the air as of today.

Cherry Creek Radio, owners, will file an application for permanent use of the new site if tests are good. While a significant increase in power, the station's antenna will be below the average of the area terrain.
 
So it looks like Q96 is here to stay? Or at least Cherry Creek is making the effort to make it work? Will 5K from the booster cover a majority of San Diego?
 
Geebus, they're going to throw more money at this turd? I haven't looked at the file as I couldn't care less, but it will still be a directional, if it ever even gets built.
 
First things first. The main site needs to run full legal power. Drive by Viejas, and 1.4kw KRBQ(San Jacinto) covers up KSIQ,only14 miles away.
The STA that was filed, shows a 3-yagi configuration, brand= Aldena. Check my post of Dec. 20 when I visited the studio. I saw a pile of wrapped
Aldena(long) items laying on the floor. Could these have been the yagi's mentioned in the STA? One could presume/postulate/guess that this
new booster plan was already in motion, less than a month after the dog ate the T1....
 
Big 121 said:
First things first. The main site needs to run full legal power. Drive by Viejas, and 1.4kw KRBQ(San Jacinto) covers up KSIQ,only14 miles away.
The STA that was filed, shows a 3-yagi configuration, brand= Aldena. Check my post of Dec. 20 when I visited the studio. I saw a pile of wrapped
Aldena(long) items laying on the floor. Could these have been the yagi's mentioned in the STA? One could presume/postulate/guess that this
new booster plan was already in motion, less than a month after the dog ate the T1....
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Huh?
 
Well KPBS FM is 2.7 KW so 5KW of even directional power in SD will be competitive. as I recall KHTS-FM was 2.6 KW from Mt. Miguel, and when it moved to the KGB tower at 52nd street it beefed up to 50kw which gave building penetration in downtown. Cherry Creek is inching its way into a real radio station that is going to be worth some real money! They obviously have money and patience??
 
600kogo said:
Well KPBS FM is 2.7 KW so 5KW of even directional power in SD will be competitive. as I recall KHTS-FM was 2.6 KW from Mt. Miguel, and when it moved to the KGB tower at 52nd street it beefed up to 50kw which gave building penetration in downtown. Cherry Creek is inching its way into a real radio station that is going to be worth some real money! They obviously have money and patience??
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933 was a simulcast of WFLZ Tampa from the San Miguel stick for something like 6 months and still got ratings. Could work for the Q too!
 
Garrett said:
933 was a simulcast of WFLZ Tampa from the San Miguel stick for something like 6 months and still got ratings. Could work for the Q too!
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Why would Cherry Creek Radio want to simulcast a Clear Channel station from Florida?
 
600kogo said:
Well KPBS FM is 2.7 KW so 5KW of even directional power in SD will be competitive. as I recall KHTS-FM was 2.6 KW from Mt. Miguel, and when it moved to the KGB tower at 52nd street it beefed up to 50kw which gave building penetration in downtown. Cherry Creek is inching its way into a real radio station that is going to be worth some real money! They obviously have money and patience??
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I don't think so. They're going to be severely limited in coverage with a directional antenna, and they're a stand alone player. In the new world of commercial broadcasting I just don't see a value to their property that would attract a buyer.

San Miguel would be a great site at 10kW, but the inversion layers prevent penetration at 2 kW or so.

I bet Cherry Creek has little money and patience. I see this more at grasping at straws trying to pull off a flip.
 
looing at the STA app on the FCC site the coverage footprint looks good. But don't look for a big player on this one. Should have some value to an ethnic operator and still should be worth more even as just a rimshooter in SD than a station in Brawley.
 
JON BRUCE said:
Should have some value to an ethnic operator and still should be worth more even as just a rimshooter in SD than a station in Brawley.
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If the station is sold, no surprise if the signal serves the Espanol audience on both sides of the border. It's hard to call that an ethnic station; as the size difference between Anglo audience is moot.
 
At some point I am sure whoever owns the station will figure out a way to completely move the station into San Diego. With the right deep pockets and attorneys anything is possible.
 
The past few days I have noticed some TV ads saying The Best is coming to San Diego's South Bay. It sounds like a station promotion. Whether it is or not, whatever it really is, it sounds like one.
 
600kogo said:
At some point I am sure whoever owns the station will figure out a way to completely move the station into San Diego. With the right deep pockets and attorneys anything is possible.
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Only if they can get the FCC to do away with the table of allocations which considers second adjacencies to be a no-no.
 
RadeoEngineer said:
Only if they can get the FCC to do away with the table of allocations which considers second adjacencies to be a no-no.
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We'll see that before the Padres pitch a no-no ...
 
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