I'm in northern Ca and have stations on my car's presets that would
hardly pop up on the auto mode. Namely KDWN, KNX, and KFI. These
signals are stronger than many local stations at night.

Of course, IBOC will eventually make them unlistenable.

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Only those stations, like KOA, will be fully
competitive because they cover the market. the rest willhave to
figure
out
niche or brokered options to survive.


Just as an aside, when I was 19 and living in Casper, WY, there was no
local
station that I could stand to listen to for more than a few minutes at
a
time. I worked for the local CATV company as an installer. Their
trucks
had
no radios in them, so I was stuck with bringing my own. What I could
afford
was an old off brand 6 transistor pocket radio that I could leave on
the
dashboard as I drove around. My station of choice as I went about my
workday? KOA. Loud and clear. Great daytime coverage, that.



Doesn't matter -- David says you don't exist. :-)

That is not skywave coverage, as Brenda Ann mentioned.

She mentions that no where. She just mentions her location, which is
out of your mytical world of coverage areas.

She says, "great daytime coverag, that." There is no normal and regular
daytime AM skywave. Therefore, she was listeing to groundwave.

Today, with computer
noise, ignition noise, dimmers, and all manner of other items, the
daytime
coverage that was useful in the 60's is significantly reduced by RFI.

So you honestly believe that no one can get a clean signal in Casper
from KOA? Hell, I'll do a trip and record an air-check to shoot that
myth down!

My point is, "why?" The nose on a fringe AM vs. the same programming on the
local AM news talker (which has the same owner) makes the deep fringe
daytime signal irrelevant as there are nearly a dozen choices in Casper,a ll
local, that sound better than KOA.

I can get KDWN from Las Vegas in Glendale, CA. A bit noisy, and I can hear
my neighbor's aquarium heater go on and off, among other things. I can get
it, but I would not want to listen to it. Heck, I can get Kota Kinabalu on
1475 nearly every morning... but I do not listen to it... I hear it.

Today, if the seek button does not stop on a signal, people do not listen to
it.

--
Eric F. Richards

"This book reads like a headache on paper."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/readi...one/index.html