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It takes that much spectrum bandwidth roughly to produce or transmit an analog video signal. All VHF/TV are allocated for that much bandwidth compared to AM band fequencies which are only 10 khz. 560khz, 570 khz .Broadcast FM which is 200 khz..... 92.1 mHZ 92.3 MHZ 92.5 MHZ etc.
 
Starbucks said:
It takes that much spectrum bandwidth roughly to produce or transmit an analog video signal. All VHF/TV are allocated for that much bandwidth compared to AM band fequencies which are only 10 khz. 560khz, 570 khz .Broadcast FM which is 200 khz..... 92.1 mHZ 92.3 MHZ 92.5 MHZ etc.
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SIX, that is, 6 MHz, not 600MHz. Jeez!
 
Starbucks said:
What's your point?......82-88 Mhz Channel 6. Where did I put 600?
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It was someone a couple of posts up that was off a couple orders of magnitude. Still, your point is accurate. You can fit thirty FM channels in the spectrum space occupied by one TV channel. The fact that these LPFM people can't make a go of it broadcasting video but seem to be doing nicely by transmitting audio should say something. There's been a movement to expand the FM band to include channels 5 and 6. That's sixty more FM frequencies, and depending on how they allocate it that could mean up to 30 more stations in a market. Good or bad? It certainly is bad for the established broadcasters but I think it might be good for radio.

Dave B.
 
I'm terribly sorry! I got a notion in my head and when that happens, I think about it carefully, to make sure it's correct and it isn't but I got a notion in my head so I think it is. 6MHZ is 30 times the bandwidth of an FM station and it's being tied up by a station not broadcasting any video signal. Think of it like a bottle of 30 aspirin in a store but someone has opened the bottle and taken one. You can't sell the rest!
 
San Jose "Back in the day" had some rather unique radio waves flowing in the air such as:
KRVE 95.3 Los Gatos, KEGL 1200, KEEN 1370, KXRX 1500, KLIV "Super 16" 1590, KPEN 97.7 broadcasting from the beautiful Old Mill Shopping center in Mt. View., 94.5 KWSS and AM 1500 KHTT.

Some of these formats on these stations you couldn't even start to describe.

I get more excited reading the stock market report these days then listening to radio which was suppose to entertain and inform us.
 
One of the major reasons I chose to move to California was KFAT - sort of a San Jose radio station. I interviewed for a job here & heard that radio station. I thought "man - if I move here I could listen to this all the time". Too bad it didn't last :-(

Dave B.
 
KEGL was 1430 out of Santa Clara formerly KGBA, KGBB, KGNU and now KVVN...as said before I had the pleasure of working at four of their studio/office, Roland Ave., Stevens Creek Blvd. Town and Country (now Santana Row)and Santa Clara town center (Wilson Bakery was right next door)
 
MarioMania said:
What year KEGL was on the air at 1210 is SJ??
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Late 60's, they were broadcasting country music from the Franklin Mall in Santa Clara. A former KYA dj, Chris Lane was the Program Director
 
suburbandj said:
Late 60's, they were broadcasting country music from the Franklin Mall in Santa Clara. A former KYA dj, Chris Lane was the Program Director
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KEGL on 1210? How did that work? Wasn't KDFC on 1220 in Palo Alto at that time?

Dave B.
 
DaveBayArea said:
suburbandj said:
Late 60's, they were broadcasting country music from the Franklin Mall in Santa Clara. A former KYA dj, Chris Lane was the Program Director
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KEGL on 1210? How did that work? Wasn't KDFC on 1220 in Palo Alto at that time?

Dave B.
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there is no 1210 AM assigned to the Bay Area so KEGL must have been 1430 AM
 
suburbandj said:
there is no 1210 AM assigned to the Bay Area so KEGL must have been 1430 AM
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Yeah, I know there isn't now. But I was thinking maybe there could have been in the '60s. We had a 1450 then and it's no longer here.

Dave B.
 
KEGL was at 1430 thanks for the correction. It had a "mixed" format of country and MOR.
I can still hear "Una Paloma Blanca" by The George Baker Selection being played over and over.
 
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