"David" wrote in message
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Can I have a hit of whatever you're smoking? Those 2 stations seem to
cover the entire bay area.

The radio-locator maps are, well, generous.

The San Francisco metro runs from Santa Rosa to Campbell, and east into the
valley. Those two stations only cover a fraction of the area in reality.

Quoth "David Eduardo" in
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"David" wrote in message
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Can I have a hit of whatever you're smoking? Those 2 stations seem to
cover the entire bay area.

The radio-locator maps are, well, generous.

That's being optimistic. In my experience with them, pretty much except for
the powerhouses, only the indicated local area is anything like listenable.

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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they
charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these
men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them
to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - W.S.

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Tom Betz wrote:

Quoth "David Eduardo" in
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"David" wrote in message
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Can I have a hit of whatever you're smoking? Those 2 stations seem to
cover the entire bay area.

The radio-locator maps are, well, generous.

That's being optimistic. In my experience with them, pretty much except for
the powerhouses, only the indicated local area is anything like listenable.

This site is flat file data base on: Call sign, Frequency, Transmitter
distance to you, City, Owner and format. It also has links to the
stations web sites if they have one.

I have already found it to be very handy for reprogramming the car radio.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

"David Eduardo" wrotf:

The radio-locator maps are, well, generous.

Generous coverage maps are a hallowed industry tradition.

Recently Larry Woods brought in some copies of Broadcast Digest from the
early '30s. This was a TV Guide sort of publication featuring stories and
program listings for west coast AM stations.

One of the biggest station advertisers was KJBS--then licensed at 100 watts
from that famous transmitter on Pine Street. "Generous" doesn't being to
describe the coverage map in their ads. (Although it's worth pointing out
that the best receivers of that time, connected to external long wire
antennas and confronted with a relatively unpopulated band, ran sensitivity
rings around most modern AM consumer sets.)

Of note is that their morning show was "The Alarm Clock Club"that early. It
was still called that in the '50s when Frank Cope was the popular jock.

Don Sherwood de-throned him.

Norm Howard