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KXBJ Not Running 100kW?

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purpledevil

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I'm spending the weekend at a buddy of mine's house in Nada, Texas. Yep, there is a town in Texas that is literally named nothing!
Anyway, 96-9 KXBJ is right down Hwy 71 from here, roughly 20 miles, and the signal from the once mighty X97 is atrocious at best now. It was an absolute powerhouse all over this area when Liberman had control of it, but a trip up to Columbus and then over to Eagle Lake produced a very scratchy, static filled signal throughout the duration of our journeys. This morning, same thing.

What's happened to the El Campo blowtorch?
 
I can get it like any other when tropo kicks in. It's the sound quality of the equipment I notice, there's not much trebble, or depth.
 
Really? I was able to pick them up at Lavaca county clear, even RDS when I was down this weekend. The audio isn't very great on it though like it use to be. K260BW even sounds worse in Victoria.
 
I noticed the audio didn't sound full or bright either, but it was the lack of signal in Nada that caught me by surprise. I had to look at the predicted coverage for KXBJ, and I guess that's the way it's supposed to be set up, but I recall a much better signal from 96-9 up in Colorado County when it was X, El Norte, XO, etc. It used to be listenable passing the area along I-10 from between Sealy and Weimar. Not so much anymore.
 
Reception of 96.9 in Cy-Fair used to be fairly consistent; normally a listenable signal, but it could blast in during good tropo conditions. The past couple of years it is either inaudible or very poor, as if the power level is being changed from time to time. Transmitter in bad shape?
 
That mirrors my experience here off of 45, Frog. 96-9 has lost something, I'm just not sure what it is. It hasn't moved, not supposed to be at less power, so what has happened? When 101-7 reaches further into Houston than 96-9 does, there's a pretty apparent problem going on down in El Campo.
 
KXBJ is actually one of the stronger stations I can get. I really would like to setup a all directional antenna and hope to get Houston and Victoria well. I just hadn't got around to doing it. A lot is going on right now.
 
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