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KSIQ Silent Again?

As of this morning 96.1 is broadcasting crystal clear silence.

Someone should drive by the Jamul office and see if the lights are on. Maybe SDG&E had as hard of a time reaching Cherry Creek as others on this board did. ;D
 
I am hearing two different KSIQs at 96.1. The booster is playing different music than the el Campo station.

Good to know that the FCC fine-doctors are on the case. Does (KSIQ) have EBS equipment? The two stations in San Diego, KOGO and KLSD do not reach east especially after sunset to their transmitter location in el Campo.
 
Just in case you are out for a country drive:

KSIQ-FM 13881 CAMPO ROAD, HIGHWAY 94 SUITE 3C JAMUL CA 91935 USA
 
Chris, Chris what am I going to do with you ??? EBS has been out of commission for almost 20 years!! It's now a very flawed P.O.S. system called E.A.S. Emergency Alert System. But standby as before the end of the year it will be replaced by an internet based system called CAP. I guess the feds have never been in a disaster area.....hummm whats the first thing to faill???? Oh I don't know the INTERNET!! LOL
 
we have internets at radio stations?
 
Dunbar Lane @I-8 is where I check to see if Q96 Campo site is powered up. Both translators are shielded at this frontage road location, and the
Morena signal is strong enough to hear on a portable. Not any more. Miniscule sig. from translator, but the normally usable Morena signal is so weak
it's just noise+++. The power has been lowered further.
CCR will not have to deal with audio sync problems between the main station/booster if the main is virtually, not on....
 
Ill bet that the network of boosters that were 102.1 were horrible to deal with? and made listening to it even worse back in the 80's and 90's??

The best solution for Cherry Creek cut your losses move it back to the valley, and be a good little local radio station there. Or just turn it off and save the power bill!
 
In a simple answer, yes. Horrible. I remember seeing all of the dismembered parts of that silly booster system in the first room at the bottom of the stairs.
 
I used to drive thru 3 of the 102.1 booster areas(70th St. ,Mission Valley, Mercy Rd.)almost daily and never noticed any audio quality change or lead/lag on the audio. Seemed to be quite effective.
 
The engineers at Par worked 10 times harder on 102.1 than they had to for 106.5 or 600 to make that thing work. From what I understand the primary reason that Par hired Kevin Douglass after Cox left was because he had built and worked on so many boosters up in San Francisco??
 
There are only a handful of places where on frequency boosters can work, and one of them is the bay area. You have complete (mostly) signal blockage of the main channels by the hills east of Oakland/Berkeley. I tried one on orders from above in Escondido and it was a disaster. It was on the air all of two days, then taken down.
 
Curious outsider here. So it appears that KSIQ had a .7 kw booster, lost the audio, had an STA for a 5 kw booster but the STA extension was dismissed on July 6? Forgive me for jumping in, but my interest is piqued because I operate a booster for one of my stations in the Pacific Northwest.

Yes, it is difficult to operate boosters when there are areas of signal overlap. You can sync all day long but the fact is that you will always have problems in areas where the signals are close in amplitude. The first trick is to locate the booster so as to minimize those areas, and the second trick is to adjust the delay to move the worst problems to areas of low population count.

In my rural market, I'm able to cover the primary population center very well with a well-placed single booster. I have a five-mile stretch of interference issues, which is mitigated by a translator which also helps with other signal-impaired areas.
 
Welcome to the discussion, Bill.. I believe the 'dismissal notice' was for the Mt Miguel booster(.7 kw), now that the Summit Park site is operational.And Cherry Creek wants that site permanent. I think $$$ are at work here...
One advantage the 102.1 booster locations had: the Mercy Road area (below avg. terrain) was maybe only 2 sq. miles in area, but used a 75 watt
ERP , which was instantly captured as you dropped down into the canyon area.
 
Is KSIQ actually using the 5KW on their booster? Because the new signal doesn't seem any stronger than the 2010 signal when they were only at .7KW.
 
The booster, licensed to the city of Santee, only muddles the reception from the main Campo station.

Muddles the Reception is the name of my new FCC report.
 
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