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Should I even be getting this station?

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jras20

I always wondered what that spanish station was on 88.1 I finaly found it at Radio-locator, KFTG at Pasadena. I can get them almost all the time with my antenna 20' up of corse out here in Lavaca county... , I just couldnt believe that.
 
jras20 said:
I always wondered what that spanish station was on 88.1 I finaly found it at Radio-locator, KFTG at Pasadena. I can get them almost all the time with my antenna 20' up of corse out here in Lavaca county... , I just couldnt believe that.
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Could be just right for a pipeline...Ive seen that before. There is a 250watt sat fed translator west of Katy on 88.1 and iirc it is spanish religious. Need to catch the Top of the Hour ID to make sure.
 
jras20 said:
I always wondered what that spanish station was on 88.1 I finaly found it at Radio-locator, KFTG at Pasadena. I can get them almost all the time with my antenna 20' up of corse out here in Lavaca county... , I just couldnt believe that.
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If you are getting KFTG you are doing better than I usually do. Right now all I can get is the translator CW mentioned K201EU. On occassion KFTG will pop up for a few seconds, and then down under K201EU.

KFTG is a very low power station with 440 watts at 30 meters. It's 60dbu Service Contour covers most of Pasadena, South Houston and Deer Park, with a range of 8.2km. K201EU is 250 watts, as CW mentioned at 61 meters and has a Service Contour of 10.3km. The antenna is NW of Katy between Katy and Brookshire.

If you indeed had KFTG that is one hell of a catch in Lavaca County as would K201EU for that matter. KFTG is "Radio Aleluya" and K201EU is the Paulino Bernal Evangelism network with frequent mentions of The Valley and San Antonio.. I moved my radio three feet from a desk to on top of a filing cabinet and now I have KFTG on top with K201EU in the background. Strange.

Congratulations on catching KFTG, you should be able to get the translator as well. K201EU has overtaken KFTG on the filing cabinet and on New Years Eve Day. KFTG is just no match for the translator, which I have had on the truck radio mixing with KFTG until I got into the canyons of downtown and lost them both.

I just checked recnet and Aleluya Christian Broadcasting is the organization that operates KFTG out of Pasadena on Pasadena Blvd. They have an active translator on Pelican Island K201DZ at 88.1, licensed to Port Bolivar and construction permits for K227BD in Freeport on 93.3 and K236BR on 95.1 in Angleton. They have 80 ! applications for translators in the Houston area waiting to be processed.

jras Have a Happy New Year and good DX to you. I always enjoy your posts and look forward to another year of them.

Best wishes for a Happy New Year to all the other people that take the time to post here. May 2007 be a great year for you.

Now it is a mix of both stations about even and time to change the station.


Mike O
 
Thanks Mike, & cw and a Happy new year to ya'll also, I look forward in to dx'n in the new year. I think I might of drank to much last night ??? lol but doing good now, I'm hoping this year would be a better year of dx'n for me. I didnt have any time to do that last year very much. Happy new year to all!
 
jras20 said:
Thanks Mike, & cw and a Happy new year to ya'll also, I look forward in to dx'n in the new year. I think I might of drank to much last night ??? lol but doing good now, I'm hoping this year would be a better year of dx'n for me. I didnt have any time to do that last year very much. Happy new year to all!
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Wish I HAD drank too much last night..I may actually get some sleep (fighting chronic insomnia...even Lunesta and Ambien/CR quit working!! Doc even gave me a Valium and Xanax...no good! :(
Tonight I heard a station on 1300AM playing Top40 70s music!! MY GAWD!!! Who was it?? I am not sure..missed the TOH but I THOUGHT it was in spanish???? (Maybe I need a drink)
 
Heres a update, before I left I did hear "Radio Aleluya" but if it was a translator they dont require TOH do they? or does the main station expose to give the translators ID? It was broadcasting in Stereo if that helped...?
 
jras20 said:
Heres a update, before I left I did hear "Radio Aleluya" but if it was a translator they dont require TOH do they? or does the main station expose to give the translators ID? It was broadcasting in Stereo if that helped...?
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TOH ID would be heard over the translator of the main station...also they SHOULD give the ID of the translator if it is not doing it via FSK morse code on the carrier (allowed under Part 73). Sounds like you were hearing KFTG.
 
CW said:
jras20 said:
Heres a update, before I left I did hear "Radio Aleluya" but if it was a translator they dont require TOH do they? or does the main station expose to give the translators ID? It was broadcasting in Stereo if that helped...?
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TOH ID would be heard over the translator of the main station...also they SHOULD give the ID of the translator if it is not doing it via FSK morse code on the carrier (allowed under Part 73). Sounds like you were hearing KFTG.
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Thanks, looks like that antenna does better than it said it was expose to, I gues it helps that its almost near flat lands from there to Houston.
 
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