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I'm looking for my twitter account right now. It appears to be how the station corresponds with it's listeners.
Anyway, many stations have improved their antenna system I would guess, so I now get good reception to both KCSM and KDFC and can tell you that there are four stations with outstanding signals:
KQED
KDFC
KCSM
KPFA
KCEA, the big band station, seems a bit underpowered, but good signal quality otherwise.
Problem I'm having with KCSM, however, is that they are overemphasizing their lows or mids or something. While every station appears to be doing this, with KQED being the most neutral AFAIK, KCSM is clearly going too far in this direction. I got to tell them.
I have my reference tuner AND a SansDisk, I paid $50 dollars for, and I think the quality suffers on both devices.
I won't even mention the Rock stations which also sound compressed to me. In an automobile, that is not so bad, afterall, most of it is not meant to sound good anyway ;-)
Follow Ups:
Excellent SQ now.
what changed?
Happy Listening
How would I know? I don't run the radio station ;-)
Two bits-
1: don't forget KALW - @ 91.7 they have a good signal and great music at night and weekends- they do have a habit of broadcasting in Mono when it is news/BBC overnight or talk-
2: I find that KPFA has the best SQ - especially at night...
I'm using an MR-74 with an OK-ish antenna - I need to improve it- a la Timbo's Rhombic...
Happy Listening
Okay? :-)
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
I will- I have been to FMfool.com and done the polars-
Happy Listening
each station's bearing from your place.
Are any of the bearings the same? Or close to same?
If not, you may not need to build more than one rhombic as there's the possibility of having a spread pattern rhombic in the article from "Audio".
I am very fortunate that I can point a long Yagi at one tower, and leave it at that.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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