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Strongest FM Translator Signal?

DavidEduardo said:
Look at the contours for some of the Albuquerque translators that are up on Sandia Peak at an average height over terrain of 4,100 feet!
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Wow, they are impressive.
I guess they have no signal away from Albuquerque because they are either on the southwest side of the mountain,
or everything from north-northwest to south-southeast is just as high as they.
BTW...I notice their 70dbu contour falls short of the southwestern suburbs.
Could an LPFM be located on the side of that mountain with an average height of less than a centifoot but actually be a couple kilofeet above the city?
 
crainbebo said:
I know someone said KOAZ's 'The Oasis' translator on 103.7 (K279BP) was heard more than either 40 or 45 miles west of Albuquerque.
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Maybe in a good car radio on open highways. But not indoors.
 
ai4i said:
Wow, they are impressive.
I guess they have no signal away from Albuquerque because they are either on the southwest side of the mountain,
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Fortunately, the radio market is all to the west of the mountaintop, with only limited populations outside Bernalillo County and SE Sandoval County (Rio Rancho adn Corrales) which areas those translators cover well.
 
Wikipedia, who we should never trust, 'claims' that Edgewood, east of ABQ across the mountains, is the 'fastest growing community in New Mexico.' The U.S. Census does show Edgewood's population up 97% between 2000-2010. Moriarty, a town past Edgewood, has gone up only a couple hundred in 10 years. But the majority of the ABQ market is west of the ridge, even though Edgewood's population is rising dramatically.
 
DavidEduardo said:


That's the truth. Look at the contours for some of the Albuquerque translators that are up on Sandia Peak at an average height over terrain of 4,100 feet! They cover nearly all of the main county in the metro with 250 watts, and a couple that are in the 100 to 150 watt range do almost as well!
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And you start driving up the mountain in Flagstaff, and some of them start popping right back in!
 
The full-power stations must be mounted differently,
as they are circular and even hit Santa Fe

Stations on (I think they are) Hawai'ian mountains show negative heights,
although they are really quite high above the cities.
I am wondering if an LP station could be mounted on the side of that hill
such that it would show an average HAAT of not more than a hectofoot,
(my earlier use of the word centifoot was incorrect))
but really be a couple kilofeet over Albuquerque.
 
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rbrucecarter5 said:
And you start driving up the mountain in Flagstaff, and some of them start popping right back in!
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Albuquerque, NM, translators in Flagstaff, AZ?

That is over 325 miles!
 
crainbebo said:
Wikipedia, who we should never trust, 'claims' that Edgewood, east of ABQ across the mountains, is the 'fastest growing community in New Mexico.' The U.S. Census does show Edgewood's population up 97% between 2000-2010. Moriarty, a town past Edgewood, has gone up only a couple hundred in 10 years. But the majority of the ABQ market is west of the ridge, even though Edgewood's population is rising dramatically.
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Edgewood is not in the Albuquerque radio MSA.
 
DavidEduardo said:


Albuquerque, NM, translators in Flagstaff, AZ?

That is over 325 miles!
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The full powers. If you can call them that. Our last excursion out there is 11 years ago - there weren't nearly as many translators then. Although - hypothetically - if you regain line of sight to Sandia peak as you approach Flagstaff, there is no reason why an unimpeded translator wouldn't be easily receivable.

I've done 325 mile reception easily from Midland to San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas. Also from Lubbock to Dallas. Austin to Beaumont which is probably a little under 300. It takes a decent tuner with a ten element outdoor antenna. Reception is pretty reliable although subject to fades. But I think the ABQ to Flagstaff stuff was line of sight because it came in full power within a couple of miles.

Looking at similar frequencies shows no overlap with a considerable dead zone, but sometimes those maps are more conservative than they need to be and car radios like a Supertuner 3D with a real whip are pretty hot receivers.

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KKOB-FM
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KMGN-FM

It would be very interesting to take a radio up Sandia Peak and see if the reverse direction works. It should.
 
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