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Pulse 87 signal
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i get it as clear as a bell in greenwich. However, my sangean HD tuner is so good that it has a bit of trouble with the signal. you have to remember that we are at sea level and this station might not have any absorption however, as long as the tower clears anything around it trees buildings etc it will be able to go out far. Since there are no mountains and just flat land in the NYC Tri state, we pretty much will all get it.
On another note I really wish 103.5 KTU would be allowed to be able to transmit like 100,000 watts. I know other tri state signals cannot transmit over 6,000 on the empire because of CT/southern NJ-Philly signals. what holds KTU up? 103.7 in NJ?
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On another note I really wish 103.5 KTU would be allowed to be able to transmit like 100,000 watts. I know other tri state signals cannot transmit over 6,000 on the empire because of CT/southern NJ-Philly signals. what holds KTU up? 103.7 in NJ?
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Jamie said:
I don't think the Connecticut/NJ/Philadelphia signals are the limitation here.
For stations located in Zone I (which includes all of the Northeast) the maximum permissible power is 50,000 watts, for antennas 150m (492') or lower.
If the antenna is higher than 150m then the power must be reduced accordingly. It looks like most of the Empire State Building stations' antennas are 415m high. Presumably the chart in FCC Regulation 73.333 returns a maximum power of 6,000 watts at that antenna height. Something similar happens in Chicago, where most stations are on the John Hancock Center (similar antenna height and power) or the Sears Tower. (about 475m and 4,000 watts)
So even if Connecticut and Philadelphia didn't exist, these NYC stations would still be limited to 6,000 watts at that antenna height.
On I-80 till about Parsippany.
Very good signal from Wayne/Clifton and eastward to the GW Bridge.
Very good signal from Wayne/Clifton and eastward to the GW Bridge.
I guess that Poughkeepsie and the rest of the Hudson Valley can't get "Pulse 87" or on the TV band channel 6 depending on the area if you're in Ulster and Dutchess Counties. Kingston can't get "Pulse 87", because it was splattered by a TV simulcast WRGB's CBS-6 in Albany. WPVI in Philadelphia, PA does carry a channel 6 audio on 87.7, same as with Albany, NY.
I don't think 100 kw ain't going to happen anytime soon.
I don't think 100 kw ain't going to happen anytime soon.
disney fanatic said:
It's not TV simulcasts, it's the actual TV broadcasts. 87.7MHz (actually 87.75) is the sound frequency for TV channel 6. ALL channel 6 analog TV stations have their audio on 87.7.
(and that applies to Pulse 87 too. As far as the FCC is concerned, Pulse 87 IS NOT A RADIO STATION. It's a *TV* station. WNYZ-LP.
Just like WRGB and WPVI, Pulse 87's TV audio is on 87.7.)
Freehold?? I'm shocked yet amazed. Being much closer to Philly, it makes it hard to get Pulse in central Jersey. It comes in well along the Monmouth/Ocean shore area- So. Amboy along the coast down to Brick. The downfall to being in this area and stuck w/ 87.75/6 is not many people are going to listen during their morning commutes. I know I can't/don't. 
We all get frequencies WAY out, as someone who "disappears" from the city on the weekends... I wish I'd get them all farther out, but getting a signal for seconds at a time in a car, which btw acts as a giant antenna, and being able to actually get it inside on a radio or at a business is completely different too... I tend to consider a station's reach by where people can get it inside, not just driving around.
What radio listener that you know wants to get a spotty signal anyway, when I'm in the car, I want a clear signal, if the station isn't clear, I hit another preset or hit scan... most people don't listen to music through static... I've never understood these how far out could you get a trace of the signal threads... I mean if we were all engineers or talking sun spots or whatever I could see it.
When I drive out of the city, I lose a steady Pulse signal waiting to get in the tunnels and then driving out 280 in the Oranges its comes and goes because of the sunken highway and it will reappear with static for brief stints after in higher elevations, but nothing of quality worth listening too.
What radio listener that you know wants to get a spotty signal anyway, when I'm in the car, I want a clear signal, if the station isn't clear, I hit another preset or hit scan... most people don't listen to music through static... I've never understood these how far out could you get a trace of the signal threads... I mean if we were all engineers or talking sun spots or whatever I could see it.
When I drive out of the city, I lose a steady Pulse signal waiting to get in the tunnels and then driving out 280 in the Oranges its comes and goes because of the sunken highway and it will reappear with static for brief stints after in higher elevations, but nothing of quality worth listening too.
So, what happens when everything switches to digital? Will Pulse be lost? Will they still be aloud to broadcast?
I live in Essex County -- about 30 miles from NYC -- and Pulse is patchy there. When I drive west to work on I-78, I can generally take them as far as the exit 40/Watchung area before losing them altogether.
I don't want to start a new thread on this specific issue but this morning (Wednesday 5-28) as I was driving in to work around 5:30, the signal was there....but DEAD AIR!
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