[BC] IBOC Tentatively Identified as Interfering Signal

[Kent Winrich]

Does KLOS really care about covering SD?  Are they selling ads there?  I
highly doubt it.




On 8/12/06, Mark Humphrey <mark3xy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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