S O'Neill wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

What worries me is that a lot of these are now having the edges of their
contours chopped away by huge numbers of Christian station translators
all over the area. The noncomm section of the band is just getting packed
by Christian translators, to the point where the William and Mary station
is really hardly audible outside of Williamsburg because they are packed
in by three on-channel translators so any direction gets interference.

The original Pacifica station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, no longer reaches
Sacramento because Fox moved in a couple of years ago. When I protested
to KPFA's engineer he said their FCC map didn't go that far.

Yup. And nobody even does real proof of performance measurements any more,
so most of what you see on the map comes from a computer simulation of
somewhat doubtful accuracy anyway.

It's lots of fun to do real contours and compare with the simulated ones.
It's even more fun for AM around here because the ground conductivity is
so uneven.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."