What's the latest on KDFC's South Bay signal status?

[asstprince]

Anybody know what's the latest status on KDFC's South Bay signal?

Any potential South Bay station that could be sold to KDFC?

 

[recto101]

Well Last time I looked it was KDFC moving 90.3 to Mount Beacon.

 

[DavidKaye]

Well Last time I looked it was KDFC moving 90.3 to Mount Beacon.

I still can't figure out that one. Better that they could move it to Candlestick Hill (1260 and 93.3 aux) and serve the Southbay better. It's 2 channels away from KALX, so that's not bad, and 1 channel away from KSJS which is in SJ and running about half the power KUSF does. Candlestick will serve the central and south Bay Area much better than Beacon ever could.

What on earth are they thinking of?

 

[DaveBayArea]

I still can't figure out that one. Better that they could move it to Candlestick Hill (1260 and 93.3 aux) and serve the Southbay better. It's 2 channels away from KALX, so that's not bad, and 1 channel away from KSJS which is in SJ and running about half the power KUSF does. Candlestick will serve the central and south Bay Area much better than Beacon ever could.

But KSJS is on Coyote peak and pretty much blankets San Jose. You also forgot about 90.1 KZSU, 500 watts from the hill above Stanford University. 90.3's coverage area is as far South as they can get.

OTOH, I don't know what Lazer plans to do with this:

http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=4698

but it would certainly be a nice adjunct, and there definitely will be a new signal in the South Bay on 93.7 within the next couple of years.

Dave B.

 

[Lou_S]

Candlestick will serve the central and south Bay Area much better than Beacon ever could.

What on earth are they thinking of?

They were thinking of avoiding prohibited overlap with KZSU.

90.3 cannot serve the south bay, no matter what you do with it, due to KZSU being next door at 90.1. The 90.1 54 dbu signal cannot overlap 90.3's 60 dbu contour, and vice-versa.

KZSU's 60 dbu line runs from about the west end of the San Mateo Bridge to the middle of Newark. Their 54 dbu extends from south of SFO to about San Lorenzo.

The only way 90.3 could go to Candlestick (or Mt. San Bruno) would be to install a directional antenna with zero power going southward. Such a device does not exist in the practical world.

The Mt. Beacon location allows a practical amount of power to be directed southward and towards the southern East Bay since there's more distance from there to the prohibited overlap areas. And Beacon does a much better job of covering the money in Marin County than either Candlestick or Beacon.

 

[Merfelberf]

Anybody know what's the latest status on KDFC's South Bay signal?

Any potential South Bay station that could be sold to KDFC?

USF is a Jesuit school, and they divested KUSF because they thought it no longer advanced their educational mission.

Santa Clara University is a Jesuit School (located not far from San Jose Airport), and it owns KSCU/103.3 in Santa Clara. Given that it's a commercial frequency and there's some distance from the two 2nd adjacents (KKSF and KBLX), this facility might have potential as the South Bay repeater of KDFC, especially with a directional antenna and/or a change of transmitter location.

But hey, I'm jus' sayin'...

 

[DaveBayArea]

Santa Clara University is a Jesuit School (located not far from San Jose Airport), and it owns KSCU/103.3 in Santa Clara. Given that it's a commercial frequency and there's some distance from the two 2nd adjacents (KKSF and KBLX), this facility might have potential as the South Bay repeater of KDFC, especially with a directional antenna and/or a change of transmitter location.

But hey, I'm jus' sayin'...

I don't know how the FCC would look at a change to that facility, since the rules for the commercial band are stricter, and they go by mileage separation. It would technically be short-spaced to the 103.3 in Modesto, although terrain shielding makes that insignificant. There's also a 103.5 in Salinas. Realistically, the FCC would probably allow a fairly powerful translator to be licensed on that frequency, but I don't know what they'd say if KUSC tried to increase their coverage area. The rules are weird that way.

I'd hate to see it. KSCU is a button on my car radio & there's often some very interesting stuff there when I punch them up. But that's just me.

Dave B.