"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"Stephanie Weil" wrote in message
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On Aug 11, 8:49 pm, Bart Bailey wrote:
but Mexico allows
international jamming station XLNC to operate from their territory.
so I say **** Mexico and may they suffer any interference.


I don't understand how XHLNC/Tijuana is a "jammer"? The station is
licenced to serve the Tijuana/San Diego metro. Whether or not it
blocks reception of an out of town station (KPFK/Los Angeles) is
irrelevant. KPFK's service area is Los Angeles, NOT San Diego.


100,000 watt FM signals are not meant to cover only a single city, but a
very wide area. Most of the 100KW plants in Portland easily cover a 75
mile radius (easily listenable on even the crappiest of Chinese Junk
radios. One thing the FCC would never do (and it pains me to give them ANY
credit whatsoever) is to put two stations on the same frequency with
overlapping coverage areas (nighttime AM propagation notwithstanding).

The distance from the Mt. Wilson tower site to S.D. is only about 100
miles. Given terrain and tower height, that's EASILY a listenable signal
in S.D.

But it is only protected to the 54 dbu contour of a conforming class B, the
equivalent of 50 kw at 500 feet. So, signal or not, it is not licensed to
serve San Diego at all.

Most of the LA stations have had cochannel or adjacents put on the "real but
not protected" countours in the last several decades.