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KVVZ San Rafael

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Is it possible for KVVZ move to Mt. Suturo or Russian Hill to get a better SF coverage? KVVZ 100.7 doesn't have a very good signal into San Francisco, even the grade a coverage sills into the city.
 
> Is it possible for KVVZ move to Mt. Suturo or Russian Hill
> to get a better SF coverage? KVVZ 100.7 doesn't have a very
> good signal into San Francisco, even the grade a coverage
> sills into the city.
>
Its up to the owner.
 
> > Is it possible for KVVZ move to Mt. Suturo or Russian Hill
>
> > to get a better SF coverage? KVVZ 100.7 doesn't have a
> very
> > good signal into San Francisco, even the grade a coverage
> > sills into the city.
> >
> Its up to the owner.
>

I believe there is a CP to move SW of San Rafael on a taller site with less power - but a little closer to SF. Don't think that it will ever move into SF proper...ever. <P ID="signature">______________
*curmudgeon in training*</P>
 
> I believe there is a CP to move SW of San Rafael on a taller
> site with less power - but a little closer to SF.

Extremely less power ... from 6,000 to 130 watts, the result of going from 100 meters height above average terrain to 624.

Even adjusting for the lower HAAT of Sutro, I don't know that KVVZ would be allowed to run with enough power to put a grade-B signal over the city of license.<P ID="signature">______________


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KVVZ, as a class A, has to be at least 111 miles from the 100.7(B) station in Salinas assuming both stations are non-directional. KVVZ is also 3rd Adjacent to KIOI.
 
> Tune in the 105.7 South Bay simulcast. I don't know what the strength or directionality of that signal is. I only remember that for years in the 70s and 80s, that frequency was an automated Oldies station that called itself "KARA in Santa Clara," and had a strong signal into the City. Still does. I can hear 105.7 loud and clear from my home near the Mission District, and throughout most of the city in my car.
 
105.7 is a 50kw class B originating from the hills east of San Jose. Has a great signal up the peninsula and into SF. I've even seeked it out in my car in Petaluma. Because of terrain shadowing, it doesn't have the best signal in the East Bay. I remember KARA, it was a local sounding upbeat AC before it signed off almost 4 years. KARA had the widest stereo seperation I've ever heard.

> > Tune in the 105.7 South Bay simulcast. I don't know what
> the strength or directionality of that signal is. I only
> remember that for years in the 70s and 80s, that frequency
> was an automated Oldies station that called itself "KARA in
> Santa Clara," and had a strong signal into the City. Still
> does. I can hear 105.7 loud and clear from my home near the
> Mission District, and throughout most of the city in my car.
>
 
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