Re: [IRCA] max groundwave propagation distance

["Donald K. Kaskey" <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis,

Too bad I didn't know you lived in Vacaville in the late eighties-early nineties I'd have dropped by and said hello :-).

I could hear KFI daytimes from my West Sacramento location on a regular basis with a fairly decent signal but can barely hear them through the heavy background noises here in San Francisco.
Often they are totally covered by the QRN.

Dennis, I'm sure you recall all the strip malls and housing on the south side of I-80 as you travel through Vacaville nowdays!?  I remember in the 60s-70s when these were ALL onion fields.  You
could smell the onions all through the area.  Made you want to stop at a restaurant and have a hamburger.  It won't be long before the whole strip from San Francisco to Auburn is one big urban
development.  They don't have far to go anymore.

>From West Sacto I could get decent reception from KAFY-550-Bakersfield days as well as the Bakersfield station on 800, who only had 250 watts at the time.  But I think KFI was the only station
to make it over the Tehachapis during midday.  I often picked up the 10 watt junior college station on 660  from Modesto though.  This with a 75' inverted L rooftop antenna and/or a box loop
assisted somewhat by a Hammarlund HQ-140X.

Don K.
S.F. CA






vroomski@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> --
> When I first moved to Vacaville, CA in 1988, was amazed
> at the signal KFI 640 put into the Vacaville area.  Listen able
> signal throughout the year in the daytime.  This was using
> a car radio in a 1984 Mustang.  Driving I-80 from the SF Bay
> Area with signal would appear a few miles before Suisum City
> and continue as I-80 hit the Sierra Nevada foothills. 354 miles
> as the crow flies for LA to Vacaville.  I don't know for sure, but
> would think that the daytime signal could easily hit the Redding, CA
> area.  It's all valley from the Grapevine to Redding.
>
> When KSTE 650 started broadcasting late 80's or earlier 90's
> the splatter kill KFI's signal on the car radio.  KNX 1070 puts
> out a nice signal at night, but could not make the distant during the
> daytime.
>
> Dennis,
> Salmon Creek, CA
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