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Translators: 90.3 vs 91.1

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amisdead

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This is just out of curiosity, but I was looking through FCC records today and came across two translators: 90.3 which is 10 watts from Mount Harvard just south of Wilson and 91.1 which is 10 watts from Flint. I am interested in the two approaches. Same small power, but one is much higher and the other much closer to actual radios. Does any one have any real world experience with reception? Which one is the better approach? Or do they both just consistently get blown out by distant full-powers?
 
amisdead said:
This is just out of curiosity, but I was looking through FCC records today and came across two translators: 90.3 which is 10 watts from Mount Harvard just south of Wilson and 91.1 which is 10 watts from Flint. I am interested in the two approaches. Same small power, but one is much higher and the other much closer to actual radios. Does any one have any real world experience with reception? Which one is the better approach? Or do they both just consistently get blown out by distant full-powers?
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I can check tomorrow; at home I can see the struts on the Flint towers without magnification... but from Central Glendale I can see both Flint and Harvard, and will try both.
 
DavidEduardo said:
amisdead said:
This is just out of curiosity, but I was looking through FCC records today and came across two translators: 90.3 which is 10 watts from Mount Harvard just south of Wilson and 91.1 which is 10 watts from Flint. I am interested in the two approaches. Same small power, but one is much higher and the other much closer to actual radios. Does any one have any real world experience with reception? Which one is the better approach? Or do they both just consistently get blown out by distant full-powers?
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I can check tomorrow; at home I can see the struts on the Flint towers without magnification... but from Central Glendale I can see both Flint and Harvard, and will try both.
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Using a Boston Acoustics Receptor at about 280 feet above ground next to an exterior window in "the flat part" of Glendale, 90.3 is noisy but definitely tunable. 91.1 is barely detectable, but definitely there. Both would be listenable were I to do something better about the antenna than the half-meter piece of wire. It does sound like 90.3 is better processed.

Location is the 134 Freeway at the corner of Central Avenue. The location is closer to Flint, of course.
 
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