SPANISH ON 107.5

[OldChicago]

While driving home this morning, 107.5 was being run over at times by a Spanish formatted station in the same frequency. I do not think it was actually Mexico, because I could tell it was a commercial for Home Depot. Any ideas at to what this could be?

Old Chicago

 

[gabigley1]

I beleive its 107.5 out of San Antonio.

 

[piggy]

While driving home this morning, 107.5 was being run over at times by a Spanish formatted station in the same frequency. I do not think it was actually Mexico, because I could tell it was a commercial for Home Depot. Any ideas at to what this could be?

Old Chicago

KXTN San Antonio.

There's been a lot of skip this summer. San Antonio has clobbered 107.5 a lot, Victoria has been all over 106.9, Corpus has hammered 103.7, and Shine All Nine out of Liberty has boomed in like a local in the last few weeks. (If you like KGBC, you'll love Shine All Nine.)

 

[LibertyNT]

Also Could Be the 107.5 From Dallas.

 

[ChuckTiller]

KASE 100.7 in Austin shoved KKHT back to Beaumont this morning.

 

[schmave]

While driving home this morning, 107.5 was being run over at times by a Spanish formatted station in the same frequency. I do not think it was actually Mexico, because I could tell it was a commercial for Home Depot. Any ideas at to what this could be?

Old Chicago

KXTN San Antonio.

There's been a lot of skip this summer. San Antonio has clobbered 107.5 a lot, Victoria has been all over 106.9, Corpus has hammered 103.7, and Shine All Nine out of Liberty has boomed in like a local in the last few weeks. (If you like KGBC, you'll love Shine All Nine.)

103.7 is almost unlistenable out in the League City/Friendswood area a lot of nights. Don't get any problems with 106.9, though, and we're too close to the 107.5 tower to hear anything else.
KACC is susceptible to interference some mornings as close in as Bay Area Blvd. and I-45, but not at my house, where you can see all the Alvin-areas towers on a clear night. Some classical station clobbers KACC in some areas of Sugar Land, and I can't figure out what it is.

 

[davideduardo]

Also Could Be the 107.5 From Dallas.

KXTN, San Antonio is Tejano One Oh Seven Point Five. Jocks in English, almost all music in Spanish, almost all spots in English. Tejano music, much of which has an accordeon flavor.

KMVK in Dallas is Spanish Hot AC, pop and ballads, everything in Spanish. No songs featuring stomach organs.

 

[dlf]

I live in the Canyon Laked area (35 miles N of San Antonio) and several San Antonio and Austin FM stations have been overpowered by Houston signals:

93.7 - hearing KKRW over KLBJ FM (and the dreaded translator in North San Antonio)
94.1 - KQXY from Beaumont over KTFM
100.7 - KKHT heard over KASE 101
101.1 - KLOL stepping over KONO in places
104.1 - KRBE over KRIO (although KRIO's antenna is way south of San Antonio)
107.5 - KGLK stepped over KXTN around Bulverde (23 miles N of San Antonio) this morning

dlf

 

[sdh483]

Nice catches in that area. Do you pick up any other Houston stations? 94.5, 95.7 (on a night when LaLey was off the air), 96.5, 97.9, 99.1, 102.1, 106.9 were some stations I was able to catch when I lived in San Antonio

 

[aunti-terrestrial]

While driving home this morning, 107.5 was being run over at times by a Spanish formatted station in the same frequency. I do not think it was actually Mexico, because I could tell it was a commercial for Home Depot. Any ideas at to what this could be?

Old Chicago

KXTN San Antonio.

There's been a lot of skip this summer. San Antonio has clobbered 107.5 a lot, Victoria has been all over 106.9, Corpus has hammered 103.7, and Shine All Nine out of Liberty has boomed in like a local in the last few weeks. (If you like KGBC, you'll love Shine All Nine.)

103.7 is almost unlistenable out in the League City/Friendswood area a lot of nights. Don't get any problems with 106.9, though, and we're too close to the 107.5 tower to hear anything else.
KACC is susceptible to interference some mornings as close in as Bay Area Blvd. and I-45, but not at my house, where you can see all the Alvin-areas towers on a clear night. Some classical station clobbers KACC in some areas of Sugar Land, and I can't figure out what it is.

Could it be KUHF 88.7?

Although I love that station, too, I did find it funny when my old car's tuner would go from some kick-butt KACC rock to some Schubert on the drive back to Sugar Land.

 

[schmave]

Unless they have a translator, I don't think so. Remember KACC is on 89.7.

 

[aunti-terrestrial]

Yeah, I know. The stereo in my old car was an actual tuner, with a dial. It was like driving through a cloud of static that came out with classical music on the other side. I'd try to hone back in on KACC, but, alas, gone.

 

[radioeye]

I've noticed the same thing about the band being FULL and lots of stations getting interference that never got interference in the past. This summer has been day after day of temperatures at or near 100 degrees or more. Old engineers used to tell me that extreme swings in temperature caused it. So, it seems that it might be true.

Blame it on global warming.....

I wonder how bad it's goning to be in the winter.

 

[Mediafrog+]

I've noticed the same thing about the band being FULL and lots of stations getting interference that never got interference in the past.

Tropo on FM has been around forever. I recall Houston FM's booming into Austin in the 1960's. Most likely to happen in humid, flat coastal regions. There are more stations crammed onto the FM band these days, so interference issues are noticed more.

I wonder how bad it's goning to be in the winter.

Tropo is less likely with cold weather, but will still pop up from time to time during the winter.

 

[Kent]

Nice catches in that area. Do you pick up any other Houston stations? 94.5, 95.7 (on a night when LaLey was off the air), 96.5, 97.9, 99.1, 102.1, 106.9 were some stations I was able to catch when I lived in San Antonio

I didn't get a chance to try many Houston stations in Austin or San Antonio when I was there in February, but I remember getting 94.5 and 96.5 pretty clearly in San Antonio. I also remember getting 106.9 in Austin but never in San Antonio. Of course, that was when it was "Houston's 24 hour, 100,000 watt Joy of Jesus KJOJ 106.9." I also got KHCB 105.7 pretty clearly in Austin, though that was a few years before KFMK 105.9 signed on.

On a side note, I was driving back home from visiting my dad this weekend, and I got stations from Arizona along the I-44 corridor between Springfield and Lebanon, MO. It doesn't quite have the same attraction it did 20 years ago because I can listen to all the stations I got over the internet but one whenever I want, but it was still kinda cool.

 

[RADIOGM]

It has been an incredible week of other stations from other cities over powering the Houston FM's. Last week driving around I could not receive the 107.5 till sometime in the afternoon. And this was driving around downtown. It was the Johnny Ramirez show instead on KXTN.

RGM

 

[snoman]

The other morning, I was actually getting 99.5 THE WOLF out of DFW in the Bear Creek area. It is surprising, because both KISS out of San Antonio and 99.5 The Fox out of Bryan College Station are both closer on that frequency. That's a hell of a skip, and it was coming in pretty good, too.