[BC] IBOC Tentatively Identified as Interfering Signal

[Mark Humphrey]

On 8/12/06, N0JAA at aol.com <N0JAA at aol.com> wrote:

>  In one example, a listener wrote to
> the CGC  Communicator saying that ever since San Diego station KUSS, on 95.7
> MHz  added IBOC, his reception of KLOS has been wiped out.  KLOS operates  on
> 95.5 MHz and broadcasts from Mt. Wilson in the Los Angeles area.  KUSS,
> although licensed to Carlsbad, California actually  transmits from Mt.  Soledad about
> 23 miles to the south.

The callsign of the San Diego station is so descriptive of that
listener's likely reaction. Wow, is truth stranger than fiction, or
what?

The spacing between KLOS and KUSS fully complies with 73.207 (for
first-adjacent Class B stations) but KLOS is grandfathered way above
the normal power limit  (and, of course, California terrain is
anything but regular, making the F 50,50 curves a bad joke) so I guess
the FCC will respond that KLOS  is "not entitled" to cover SD County.

However, ABC should fix KLOS's stream so this loyal fan can remain a
listener, otherwise he/she will probably give up and buy a satellite
receiver.  Maybe they just don't care.  After all, the station's about
to be unloaded on Citadel.

I just tried the stream...  sounds like a dead circuit with a grounding problem:

http://abc2.andomedia.com/klos/launch.asp

Mark