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Q-96 Move-in

I'm excited about this. I hope it continues to be CHR when it moves in. I also hope I can get the station in my car. I understand they will have a booster station in Santee (SDRadio). Can anyone anticipate what the coverage might sound like if you were in, say, Downtown SD or North Park?
 
Not exactly going to cover all that much of the San Diego metro (maybe half at the most?).

I would think that they won't be much of a threat to anyone..
 
You can check out the coverage of the Santee booster on the Fcc Audio division site. I believe the CP expires in July of 2010. As I recall KSIQ gm Tony Driskill posted when the move first came to light that Cherry Creek planned to sell it and not build it themselves. Of course with sale prices down 50% or more nationwide now, and a lack of interested buyers they may be forced to build it, but I doubt the format would remain the same.
 
vonrollskyway1 said:
do you think Q96 will still have a signal in el centro?? ???
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No.

And it likely will not be called Q 96 once it is moved and signs on. This is pretty much a new station born from an old one in a different market that was moved.
 
With a likely goal of having one of the in market owners buy the station when it demonstrates some sort of real signal coverage.
 
mj said:
With a likely goal of having one of the in market owners buy the station when it demonstrates some sort of real signal coverage.
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That might be the goal but I don't know who would want that facility with such poor coverage, especially when there's not a lot of Benjamins in the old savings account.
 
KRQB , San Jacinto, is quite audible in Kearny Mesa, and gets stronger up the I-15 corridor. It will be iffy for
KSIQ north of Scripps Ranch because of the hills east of there. But further north, Woodson Peak and Iron
Mtn. will pretty much block KSIQ, while KRBQ gets stronger. To some extent, San Miguel will help northward.
The new site will be good coverage for Mexicali and Calexico, with few terrain obstacles. El Centro to a lesser degree.
But Yuma, Glamis, and Winterhaven s/b as good or better than now.
 
Big 121 said:
KRQB , San Jacinto, is quite audible in Kearny Mesa, and gets stronger up the I-15 corridor. It will be iffy for
KSIQ north of Scripps Ranch because of the hills east of there. But further north, Woodson Peak and Iron
Mtn. will pretty much block KSIQ, while KRBQ gets stronger. To some extent, San Miguel will help northward.
The new site will be good coverage for Mexicali and Calexico, with few terrain obstacles. El Centro to a lesser degree.
But Yuma, Glamis, and Winterhaven s/b as good or better than now.
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The new CP will not get to the bay to the west, to Alpine and El Cajon to the North, and the usable (64 dbu) will not get within 15 to 20 miles of Imperial County; it will have no Calexico or Mexicali coverage.

This new CP is to be licenced to Campo, and is directional to the SW due to terrain blockage to the north and east and southeast, and will have no signal at all in Yuma and vicinity.
 
i half to disagree with you a bit on coverage.ksiq,i hear up and down hwy 67 on the way to work in poway..as for a station with a blasting signal (SORRY OFF TOPIC) krth 101 in los angeles..i was in el centro and picked them up perfectly on the entire i 8 freeway..now ,fm signals travel best when they are high up right??well,why wouldnt KSIQ come in in el centro??
 
vonrollskyway1 said:
i half to disagree with you a bit on coverage.ksiq,i hear up and down hwy 67 on the way to work in poway..as for a station with a blasting signal (SORRY OFF TOPIC) krth 101 in los angeles..i was in el centro and picked them up perfectly on the entire i 8 freeway..now ,fm signals travel best when they are high up right??well,why wouldnt KSIQ come in in el centro??
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The new CP does not even have a 57 dbu signal anywhere in Imperial County. Of course, if they are still on using the old license, of course they can be heard there... they were an El Centro station.

Car reception goes greater distances than is normal for in home and at work distances, of course. But the new San Diego County CP shows absolutely no coverage of your county area, and there is horizon blockage from mountains. The station is relicensing to Campo, with the transmitter on the western side of the Laguna Mountains, and there is no way the signal could cross to El Centro or Brawley or that area, as the HAAT is only 300 feet, and the power is cut by half.
 
VonRollskyway1- Yes, I catch KSIQ , BRAWLEY, in e. county also. Your radio is probably like mine; it ignores those dbU
contours. Did you notice in Imperial Valley, that most Soledad stns. are listenable? Some adjacent crap from Mexicali, but as
you go past El Centro,the S.D. stations roll in. Two strong notables as you drive to Yuma;(160 miles!) Walrus, and , on their new antenna, KIOZ. They dissappear 20 mi. east of Yuma in the foothills.
Remember Bob Ugly's 96.9,Free Radio San Diego? From their 3rd site @Bancroft & Date, I tuned him in at Golden Acorn Casino,(about4 miles east of new KSIQ site) in Stereo with full quieting- not bad for 50 watts/44miles. Draw your own conclusions about KSIQ's signal going due west. One factor that is not accounted for in this area, is the upper temperature
layers over SoCal. They act as a high altitude r.f. "mirror" to reflect signals to the horizon and beyond. This summer,99.9 ,
103.3,93.7 from Santa Barbara were quite strong for weeks at a time. Also some Mid-West FM skip was rolling in.
As for KRTH, an AZ. station sometimes gives 'em problems just before you desend down Mtn. Springs grade.
Very BIG121
 
I guess it's just how the mountains are contoured, that affect how signals are bounced off them.  Back in 1999 when I was in the area, KFMB, KMYI, and KPLN (Last 2 at that time at least with their call letters), where easily listanable in Borrego Springs, and all the Imperial County stations were listenable as well.  And a station on 106.1 (I believe by looking, it was KPLM) was coming into Borrego Springs as well.

I would think, as you got more away from the mountains that are higher than the transmitting site, the signal would come in better, as those mountains would cast sort of a "shadow" over the signal, closer to the mountains.  So in theory, with a good antenna, or a good car radio, KSIQ might still be picked up in El Centro.

So in KISQ's case... It would just depend on what part of San Diego County or Imperial County, you are at.  Honestly, I think it's a very bad transmitter site.  Most of their power is going into Mexico though.  Unless they are planning to convert to a spanish-music station, I don't think this was a good move for them.
 
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