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What happened to 104.7 KOJH-LP Kansas City?

AnyHuman said:
Did the LPFM give up? It shows as active, however there is currently a translator rebroadcasting an AM station which is on the air in Kansas City.

I never hear the LPFM, just the translator.

https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=KO...=&party=&party_type=LICEN&latd=&lond=&lang=en
https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=K2...=&party=&party_type=LICEN&latd=&lond=&lang=en

I'm not sure who in the FCC authorized these two so close to one another...
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Dude, really.. how can you be listening to stations in Kansas and Texas all the time?
 
People can travel to more than one area.

I've confirmed again the LPFM KOJH is not on the air, just the translator, so I thought I'd ask if anyone knows why the translator won the battle.
 
I'm sorry guys, I was overreacting. It's on the air in fact, but doesn't go very far due to the KCXL translator. I hear KOJH-LP is planning on upgrading their power however.
 
KOJH has a nice smooth jazz format. I've heard instrumentals of classic soul tunes as well, for example Earth Wind and Fire and Stevie Wonder instrumentals. But a lot of it's smooth jazz.
They're streaming on their website and TuneIn.
 
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KOJH is now playing old school R&B, less jazz so maybe they're changing direction.
Pretty cool - KC needs an oldschool station. I just wish their range was further. They might need some help with adding announcements, so go support the LPFM if you record liners and such. https://www.kojhfm.org/volunteerapp
 
They do now have some announcements and they're playing a mix of jazz as well as some oldschool hip-hop and R&B and classic soul. Nice!
 
I looked up the coverage areas of the two stations. K284CH has a 30db null toward KOJH and sends less than one itty bitty little watt toward them.
You would have to either be well outside of the later's service area in order to get anything from the former or be using a highly directional antenna aimed at them.
Many LPFM station operators expect to have supporting members across several counties and this just does not happen except for within the rarest of special situations.
 
ai4i said:
You would have to either be well outside of the later's service area in order to get anything from the former or be using a highly directional antenna aimed at them.
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Oh yeah? When recently driving down Troost at 30th street going south, KOJH-LP starts to fade out because of K284CH's interference. At 39th street they interfere with each other and K284CH dominates, however I believe if K284CH was to go off-air for some reason KOJH-LP would travel past that.

As for KOJH-LP they've recently added some funk and soul into the mix. It sounds pretty good on-air, nice and clear just like the stream.
https://www.kojhfm.org/
 
AnyHuman said:
When recently driving down Troost at 30th street going south, KOJH-LP starts to fade out because of K284CH's interference.
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The term, "fade out" means that the signal gets weak, NOT that interference is overpowering them. I do not know the roads in that area. Any way, the protected area of an LPFM is pretty small relative to the area that some can be received. Anything outside that protected area is incidental.
 
KOJH's transmitter is at 9th and Troost while K284CH is near Swope Park and the KC Zoo.

39th and Troost is 3 miles from the transmitter and is outside the service signal contours of both stations. Heading south down Troost, KOJH's service contour runs out between Armour and 36th. K284CH is highly directional, probably to protect KOJH, but its also about 100 feet higher than KOJH.
 
I meant, K284CH starts to overpower KOJH-LP. KOJH must be running at low power or something I imagine.
 
While that’s possible, especially if you don’t usually notice that, it wouldn’t be impossible for that to be the status quo. The translator operates at a higher power and with 75-100 feet more height. One would expect it to get out farther except in areas where its signal is nulled out.
 
KOJH has improved their signal slightly in the past few days. I can now pick it up without static covering it up if I'm careful.

As for the format, they say they "promote the black American music experience with an emphasis on jazz." I'm not hearing all jazz though, most of it's R&B with some old school and jazz mixed in here and there. Their playlist is usually very limited, but they refresh it on average once every few days. As for imaging it's just one man doing the liners with no sound effects and they don't come on often. I do like the station's nice, clean, undistorted sound with the bass seemingly turned up.
 
AnyHuman said:
KOJH has improved their signal slightly in the past few days.
I can now pick it up without static covering it up if I'm careful.
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I am just curious as to whether you have any idea what the word, "static" really means.
 
What I mean is KOJH comes in slightly better at my location. Of course I know what static means. LOL
 
b-turner said:
FM doesn't have static ...There's even the hit "FM, No Static at all"
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This is a good example of how words change meaning with new generations. To you and me, "static" is an electrical discharge in the atmosphere that can be heard on lower frequency AM radio bands. To Millennials, it is just any kind of "noise" that interferes with listening to any transmitted content.
 
Ai4i said:
I am just curious as to whether you have any idea what the word, "static" really means.
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and somehow he can hear stations in Kansas City and down in Texas at the same time, even where no online software define tunable radios exist.
 
Actually, the limiters in FM receivers only reject static and cochannel "heterodynes" above the level of "full quieting.
The song is only accurate for signals above that threshold level.
 
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