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by Myla Reson
Thursday, Jul. 15, 2004 at 4:38 PM
myla4justpeace@yahoo.com
Yesterday afternoon power failed on Mount Wilson and Pacifica's kpfK ceased transmission for over one hour. Most LA listeners tuned to 90.7 FM could clearly hear classical musical being broadcast from Tijuana station XLNC.
Border Blaster Continues to Interfere with Pacifica's
Southern California Station
Los Angeles, CA
July 14, 2004
by Myla Reson
According to Pacifica's broadcast engineer Don Mussel,
Tijuana/Chula Vista based XLNC "has caused
interference to KPFK in Los Angeles" since its "very
first day of broadcasting". That day was Valentine's
Day 2000.
For close to four and one half years strains of
compositions by Franz Schubert, Erik Satie, Ludwig Van
Beethoven and other classical greats have drowned out
portions of Democracy Now!, Uprising host, Sonali
Kolhatkar and other important public affairs shows on
the Pacifica Foundation's Southern California station.
Both the Mexican station and KPFK are licensed to
broadcast at the frequency of 90.7 FM, but for nearly
four and a half years XLNC has been ignoring many basic conditions of its license permit.
XLNC is out of compliance in a number of significant
areas:
1) It is licensed to broadcast at 1 kW - it broadcasts
at between 30 - 40 kW.
2) It's broadcast tower is much closer to the border
than the location allowed by law and specified in its
permit.
3) The transmitter is 400 feet higher than the
height allowed on its permit.
4) Instead of using an omnidirectional transmitter as
required, the classical music station has a massive
antenna system aimed north towards San Diego and Los
Angeles.
The result is devasting for many KPFK listener
sponsors. Classically trained opera singer Hope Foye
who resides in the Southern part of the KPFK signal
area goes to extraordinary lengths to listen to
Democracy Now!. This protege of the late, great Paul
Robeson must climb into her car and drive up a hill to
hear Amy Goodman's show on weekday mornings. Foye
fears that her lifetime love affair with classical
music is seriously threatened by the nuisance of
interference with her most trusted source for news and
public affairs programming.
The interfernce, however is not limited to Long Beach
and San Pedro. The contours of the land are often a
determining factor. In canyons and Northern coastal
parts of KPFK's signal area KPFK's broadcasts are
often interrupted by its Southern rival.
Over a year ago KPFK launched a campaign to get
listeners involved by urging them to contact the FCC.
To date, KPFK listener sponsors have not received a
detailed report back with respect to the results of
the campaign, but on May 27, 2004 the station's
General Manager made the following statement at a
meeting of the KPFK Local Station Board:
"Probably most of you will be familiar with the
problem that we have with XLNC frequency and that I've
been working on this for two years. What happened
initially was that XLNC was in financial trouble and
they cut a deal through the FCC where KUSC to do
programming on their frequency (which is our
frequency). After negotiations with KUSC's general
manager they have put a hold on their programming deal
with XLNC. And today XLNC is in dire straits and not
able-- well there's not much hope for them to continue
with broadcasting. I spoke-- we shouldn't be cheering,
that's a public relations issue-- So-- part of what we
talked about earlier in this year with XLNC's general
manager was for them to apply for a transfer to
another frequency. And just before I came here I had a
discussion with the GM from XLNC Mexico, and they've
actually applied to be transfered from our frequency
to another frequency. And they've actually got an
official o.k. from the Communications-- the Ministry
of Communications Department in Mexico to support the
transfer. That's the good news. The challenges here--
and I'll start working with our engineers and FCC
attorneys tomorrow on this-- the challenge becomes
that now we have to from our side get the FCC to
support this position because there's a treaty between
Mexico and the U.S. What was interesting that I found
out tonight was that the frequency 90.7 FM that's ours
at KPFK? [laughs] belongs to Mexico and not the United
States. So according to the treaty-- I think the
treaty was passed in 1996. I think we have a really,
really good chance with winning our frequency back--
our frequency back. If we can push a campaign to get
the FCC to move-- to agree to the transfer because
this is the first time we've gotten any response from
the Mexican government. And the alternative to it is
either they move XLNC or XLNC1 has to close down. And
I think that's why we're now getting their support. I
don't want to take questions on this issue I think
what I'll do is I'll just keep you updated when we
should be seeing a lot of things happening over the
next couple of weeks as we try and move forward both
legally and maybe another listener campaign to
influence the FCC's decision on this. So that I
thought was really an important issue to bring up here
tonight."
KpfK's GM Eva Georgia's report is most notably
inaccurate with respect to the statement that the
frequency 90.7 fm "belongs to Mexico and not the
United States". Common sense (and an international
broadcast agreement) dictate that the frequency is
controlled by the United States north of the border
and to Mexico on the Mexican side. But the matter of
juridiction is further complicated by the fact that
the owner of XLNC operates in Chula Vista, California
and is registered as Califormula, Inc. with the
California Secretary of State.
If one goes to the website for XLNC and selects
"Reception Issues" the following statement appears:
"Classical 90.7 FM XLNC1 classical music radio station
is a non-profit, commercial-free institution, licensed
to broadcast in the San Diego/Tijuana region at 90.7
FM. When we were assigned the frequency of 90.7 FM by
the FCC in Washington, D.C. and SCT (Secretaria de
Communicaciones y Transportes) in Mexico City, we were
not aware that our broadcasts would be interfering
with the signal of KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. We
regret that, through no fault of our own, the FCC and
SCT licensed us to broadcast at the frequency of 90.7
FM, and we have formally requested a new frequency.
It is not our personal intention to interfere with the
ability of KPFK listeners to hear broadcasts from the
Los Angeles station in the Pacifica Network."
[ http://www.xlnc1.org/interference.html ]
If XLNC were following the conditions for broadcasting
set forth in its operating permit the matter of
frequency would not be a significant concern, and if
it would comply with those conditions in the interim
until a new frequency is granted it would be a great
demonstration of good faith.
Many KPFK listeners have wondered outloud whether
there are sinister forces at play, and XLNC is not
some kind of subrosa operation to keep important
information away from ears on Southern California
military bases. The writer of this piece cannot
confirm or deny such a scenario, but little comfort is
derived from the fact that XLNC owner Victor Diaz
leases his other Tijuana stations to Clear Channel.
[end]
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"...Defunct WBAI High Culture Poetics and history means complete
obliteration of areas of both official and counter-culture from recorded
memory, auditory history. This defaults culture itself. It is not a
minority or majority matter, every world suffers, first, second and third,
and any more imaginable." - Allen Ginsburg, 1977
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by Simple Simon
Thursday, Jul. 15, 2004 at 7:21 PM
Finally.
An interloper from across our Southern border that you guys don't like.
Wow.
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by Myla Reson
Friday, Jul. 16, 2004 at 2:29 PM
For more information and links to photos and important documents check out this link to a page from broadcast engineer Don Mussell's website:
http://www.well.com/user/dmsml/xlnc/xlnc.html
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by Gary Sudborough
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 12:56 PM
IconoclastGS@aol.com
XLNC is so powerful that it is able to knock KPFK off the air anywhere south of Laguna Hills and particularly near the coast. I believe anyone who thinks this is totally accidental or a misunderstanding is extremely naive. The CIA has always been very concerned that something other than corporate propaganda will be able to reach the American people. The Church Committee in the 1970s revealed that many editors and journalists were on their payroll. It is no stretch of the imagination to think that the CIA is financing this jamming attempt. XLNC plays excellent classical music- something that would appeal to a intellectual audience like KPFK possesses. I was a member of a peace group In Sacramento during the Vietnam war and we were infiltrated by two CIA agents. They had the leftist rhetoric down perfectly. The thing that gave them away was that they were like two flower children from the Mafia.
www.theblackflag.org/iconoclast
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by Sheepdog
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 1:10 PM
...how did this station insert their program into the Real Player stream when this post was published?
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/114139.php
I can understand how a signal can get smothered in transmitted mode, not a stream. Curious.
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by Now wait just a moment
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 6:59 PM
"XLNC plays excellent classical music- something that would appeal to a intellectual audience like KPFK possesses."
As someone who listens to ALOT of KPFK I think it's easily fair to say that, all politics aside, the one thing we can ALL agree on is that KPFK plays only the most ABSOLUTE worst and most insipid music at every and any opportunity.
Simply the most awful purveyor of all things musical on the entire broadcast spectrum.
From their bumber music to their music programs...absolute shite.
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by heh
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 7:28 PM
is " bumber music " what a wantabe "with it" cretin.
I think nose flutes would be your choice. Or a jew's harp and bongo.
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by ??????
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 8:42 PM
What the hell does that mean?
Gibberish.
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by heh
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 8:53 PM
You're an idiot trying to be cool when you are a racist liar and bag girl for the JDL. Too complex to understand, huh? You come across like a spitfull spinster with an advanced case of herpies from the one fuck you had to pay for.
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by oh, I get it
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 9:10 PM
"after metal and hip hop is bumber music what a wantabe "with it" cretin. "
So that's what this means. How could I have ever misunderstood?
Excellent sentence structure by the way and let's also get this clear...listening to KPFK is hardly an attempt to be "with it". I simply find it highly entertaining.
Crazy talk radio. Very high EV.
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by XLNC
Monday, Jul. 19, 2004 at 2:58 AM
Let's face it: the intercepting media of XLNC is far more relevant than almost anything ever broadcast on KPFK. Although I'd rather hear more chaotically "composed" music such as Godspeed You Black Emperor, there's no denying the fact that KPFK's reformist liberal spouts of rhetoric are less than revolutionary, and more in line with mindlessness. Maybe the few hours of classical music that overlaps KPFK's nonsense will inspire listeners to rethink their ideas and tactics, and realize that Anarchy is the only real alternative to the civilized domestication that has borne these issues. Viva XLNC and Green Anarchy!
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by Long live KPFK, down with the trolls
Sunday, Jul. 18, 2004 at 12:14 AM
www.kpfk.org/
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by more rational
Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2004 at 10:30 AM
The stream is probably coming from a radio, digitized by a sound card, and sent to the real audio reflector.
Why doesn't Pacifica try to buy a similar border radio station? Blast Arizona with political information.
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