"Telamon" wrote in message
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In article ,
"David Eduardo" wrote:

Your information or how you are interpreting it is faulty.

The information is composed of two parts.

1. Arbitron diary returns for in-home listening by ZIP code.
2. Signal strength by ZIP Code from professional engineering software,
based
on FCC licence values, ground condutivity, tc.

Must be a piece of crap software you use.

It's the most used software for both vieweing existing operations and for
creating applications for new stations. It gives very precise contours per
the FCC rules, although I used the option to do signal averaging for a ZIP
Code since the data I am referencing to, Arbitron listening, can be broken
into ZIP Codes also.


Noise is not an issue at all. What does it take to get that through
your skull? Take a drive up to Ventura and see for yourself.

Why should I.

Because your data is wrong and you base your conclusions of false facts.

The data comes from the FCC... including the licensed operation (antenna
efficiency, directional pattern, transmitter location) and the "official"
FCC ground condutivity data to determine attenuation over a determined path

I am capable of looking at the field strengths of each station
in your ZIP and knowing that no AM station with less than a 10 mv/m gets
significant in-home listening in that ZIP, I conclude that the general
rule
about listening to weaker signals holds true, yet again.

Bad data, incorrectly interpreting that data leads to wrong conclusions.

The fact is, whether it is in Ventura or Lares, Puerto Rico, listening to
AMs below certain strong signal strengths is nearly non-existent and
statistically close to zero.

The stations broadcast from Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, Ventura,
Oxnard,
Port Hueneme, Simi Valley, LA, and at the very least KOGO in San Diego.

Some in your ZIP have about 2 mv/m. As stated before, you may hear them
if
you try, but "normal" radio listeners do not listen to them as they are
not
stong enough to be usefully listenable.

No trying need since they are strong signals. No problem getting them on
the home radio, portable, or car radio.

Yet listeners do not listen to them when the signal is below 10 mv/m in your
ZIP code.

There is like 10 stations 30 miles or less away from me for Gods sake.
Get a new line of crap to peddle. This one really stinks.

But, in your ZIP, there are only 3 above 10 mv/m. And those are, buy no
strange coincidence, the only ones that get any significant diary
mentions
in your ZIP.

Something is wrong with your data or calculations.

My listening data comes from the 4-book average for listening in your ZIP
code, correlated with actual signal strength there.

You got a real problem. Your view of reality is askew. I don't know
where you are going wrong but you should find out.


The simple fact is that in densely populated areas in the US, there is
seldom any AM listening outside the 10 mv/m contour.